INTRODUCTION
The earliest date I could find scrawled on this first notebook in front of me now, containing the hand-written entrails of Yesterday, the prequel to Ten Years And Muses, is August 1st, 2000. On that date I was two and a half months shy of 17 and Charlotte was 16 when we began passing spiral notebooks back and forth, creating the world of Melody Banks and Andrew Brooks. Both of us teenagers, neither one of us writers, we dove right into the world of Hanfic, letting our imaginations run wild, creating an entire world that any teenage girl wished they lived in at our ages in that point in time. We put a lot of ourselves (perhaps a little too much at times) into the characters, we wrote it all strictly in first person. I physically wrote Mel and Charlotte physically wrote Drew. We spent long hours and three thick spiral notebooks on the story and yet it was sadly never completed.
It is, by no means, literary gold. It was written by teenagers and it definitely shows. It is not Shakespeare. It's cheesy, outlandish, and some parts downright unbelievable--but what do you expect from a couple of young girls still completely naïve to the way real life actually works?
You will find discrepancies in Yesterday and much of the background in Ten Years And Muses. This was a result of not revisiting Yesterday until 16 chapters into Ten Years And Muses and basically, I liked the new stuff I made up better. Please don't stress over timelines and discrepancies!
I am posting Yesterday as-is and completely unabridged and edited only for spelling.
HAPPY READING!!
--Abby
The earliest date I could find scrawled on this first notebook in front of me now, containing the hand-written entrails of Yesterday, the prequel to Ten Years And Muses, is August 1st, 2000. On that date I was two and a half months shy of 17 and Charlotte was 16 when we began passing spiral notebooks back and forth, creating the world of Melody Banks and Andrew Brooks. Both of us teenagers, neither one of us writers, we dove right into the world of Hanfic, letting our imaginations run wild, creating an entire world that any teenage girl wished they lived in at our ages in that point in time. We put a lot of ourselves (perhaps a little too much at times) into the characters, we wrote it all strictly in first person. I physically wrote Mel and Charlotte physically wrote Drew. We spent long hours and three thick spiral notebooks on the story and yet it was sadly never completed.
It is, by no means, literary gold. It was written by teenagers and it definitely shows. It is not Shakespeare. It's cheesy, outlandish, and some parts downright unbelievable--but what do you expect from a couple of young girls still completely naïve to the way real life actually works?
You will find discrepancies in Yesterday and much of the background in Ten Years And Muses. This was a result of not revisiting Yesterday until 16 chapters into Ten Years And Muses and basically, I liked the new stuff I made up better. Please don't stress over timelines and discrepancies!
I am posting Yesterday as-is and completely unabridged and edited only for spelling.
HAPPY READING!!
--Abby