History
How This All Began…. (written and over-exaggerated by Denise)
Sometime in Spring 2000….
Imaginative Writing class was great, but it was boring. I had no friends in the class. One side you had the “cool” and sometimes loud people (who probably signed up for the class because it was “easy”), and on the other were just the people who wanted to actually write.
Me? I sat in the middle for a while.
Soon, I moved to the back toward the teacher’s desk. There was a cluster of us. Julie Morin, Ashley Moss, Nicole Bass, and this girl I had seen but never spoken to before.
Her name was Rachel.
I can’t remember what broke the ice exactly, but I do remember it had something to do with anime. Soon, we began to talk about Sailor Moon. Her nickname was “Miss Mercury” and I called myself “Saturn Firefly.”
Well, you know what’s next, right?
So then, I set to thinking. We’re both writers, right? I mean, we can write stories with each other. A novel concept…
We started on our first story called Crucial Elements with a spiral notebook. When we had finished, we took the dialogue and turned it into story format. (It’s still not done, however. We soon had problems with the disk.) The next one, a bit longer, was called The Wedding. Contained in a yellow folder, it had the air of Sailor Moon and Melrose Place mixed together. (Well, sort of.)
Last that year was a story called Jessica Times Two. Filled with Backstreet comedy and “domino scenes,” the third installation involved a trip to an island and a venture into the future where our characters met their future selves.
Spring 2001
In Spring of 2001, with graduation on the horizon, Rachel and I were in Shakespearean Studies II class together. With usual R-san, D-chan craziness, the idea of making a story in which the characters were doing a play suddenly surfaced. The story was Much Ado About Trouble, and the play was Much Ado About Nothing (by the Bard). In the story were the boys of Gundam Wing for the first time (Heero had surfaced in Rescue Mission and so did the others for a little while, but no others contained them until Trouble), grumbling about playing their parts. And of course you have to have the Gundam females there to wreak havoc or it can’t be a Gundam story!
Summer 2001 and on
During the summer of 2001, Rachel and I (along with a mutual friend Brandy Stevens) went to Kentucky Kingdom. Amid the fun of the theme park, Rachel and I wrote some of Trouble in the hotel room.
Recently, when I got my Internet back, she and I finally finished the long story. A Midsummer’s Nightmare, much shorter and probably with even more of the usual craziness, was immediately written after the completion of Trouble. We finished Nightmare a short time ago, and now we’re working on its sequel. Wish us luck!
List of Works by The Storytellers
(Prior to MAAT)
Crucial Elements
The Wedding
Jessica Times Two
Rescue Mission
Angelic Millenia
Bad Vibrations
