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1 Author’s Note for “Dear Sakura” | |
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3 Aside from a brief sentence or two, I’ve never done author’s notes | |
4 before. I’m also still new to fan fiction, so your patience really is | |
5 appreciated. Thanks seem to be in order, so we’ll start there. | |
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7 Thank *you* for reading the story. It’s a bit long, and it’s coming | |
8 out in several parts over a period of time, so Faithful Reader’s | |
9 dedication is very much appreciated by the authors. We didn’t plan on | |
10 it being this long, but then we didn't plan on it being any shorter, | |
11 either. We just wrote, and tried to let the story tell itself. It | |
12 did. We hope you like it. | |
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14 Collaborating with Heather of Amazoness Duo is a delight. Creatively | |
15 speaking, we make a very harmoniuos pair. We share a similar | |
16 viewpoint on a lot things, and both got on very well in our work. She | |
17 was the reason I began to do fan fiction last year. I was inspired by | |
18 her work and thought, “I would love to be able to write like that.” | |
19 Well, I still can’t write like she does, and don’t expect I ever | |
20 will. I have experience in non-creative writing, but she has genuine | |
21 talent. As she gains experience, she pushes the limits of her | |
22 ability. It’s astonishing to see what she’s done in just the year | |
23 I’ve known her. It’s been a pleasure and an honor to assist her in | |
24 writing this series. Thank you very much, Heather. It really means | |
25 more to me than I can say. | |
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27 Finally, thank you, Clamp. Card Captor Sakura is a luminous series, | |
28 filled with magic and passion, humor and adventure, and tinged with | |
29 the sadness of ephemeral beauty that is so distinctly Japanese. Their | |
30 work is a beautiful creation, a rare gift for readers lucky enough to | |
31 discover it. The characters are vivid and alive, so real they attract | |
32 our thoughts, stir our feelings, and fill our dreams. Fan fiction | |
33 covers a lot of imaginative ground, but we wanted the characters to | |
34 be true to Clamp's original vision. Thre story takes place six years | |
35 after the end of the manga, and about 3 months after Sakura has | |
36 married Syaoran and moved to Hong Kong. It begins when Tomoyo writes | |
37 a letter to her friend, who is settling into a new life in a far away | |
38 place. | |
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40 G.P. | |
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43 Hello, minna-san! ^-^ The story you are about to begin reading has | |
44 taken something around half a year to write, countless e-mails sent | |
45 back and forth to develop, and many a sleepless night. And it's | |
46 longer and much more satisfying than a story that took me two years | |
47 to write on my own. I've had a lot of fun being a part of this and I | |
48 hope you'll have as much fun reading it. ^-^ I've always found | |
49 collaborations with other authors exciting. But there are so many | |
50 problems with it. If one of you loses interest, the entire series can | |
51 collapse. If you have a conflict of interest, then the story can | |
52 suffer. If you're writing styles are too dissimilar, then the whole | |
53 thing looks painfully welded together. But none of that happened with | |
54 this. I got to cowrite a story with my favorite CCS fanfic author and | |
55 it went unbelievably smoothly. Through our e-mails, we managed to | |
56 work out the direction of the story and more than that, we managed to | |
57 delve deeper into the characters and the situations they found | |
58 themselves in, getting a deeper look at Clamp's masterpiece as we | |
59 went along. G.P. and I both view writing as more watchful than | |
60 forceful, so I believe our styles went hand in hand. This was the | |
61 most enjoyable time I've had writing since I started years ago. I'm | |
62 extremely happy with how things have turned out. I never could have | |
63 done this story on my own. The sheer scope alone would have been | |
64 daunting, but G.P. always kept me inspired and eager to continue | |
65 forward towards the stories inevitable conclusion. I didn't want it | |
66 to be over, but all good things must come to an end. Even if no one | |
67 reads this at all, I was simply delighted to have worked on it. G.P. | |
68 is a magnificent writer and I hope that we can collaborate on another | |
69 story in the not so distant future. This story was very emotional for | |
70 me and even I had no real idea where it was going at times. I found | |
71 myself crying while writing parts of it, lost in the swirling | |
72 emotions surrounding our lead characters. This is Tomoyo's story. | |
73 This is Sakura's story. I never wanted to impose my will upon it. I | |
74 simply wanted to document it. I hope that we've done them proud. The | |
75 turning points in the story, and even the ending were surprises for | |
76 me. The characters wanted to go their own way and I was more than | |
77 happy to see where they would lead. I hope they'll surprise you as | |
78 much as they surprised me. | |
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80 Heather of the Amazoness Duo |