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PREFACE or What ‘Kiss or Die’ is all about
As many things do, this project started completely innocently, namely with my (Koneia) difficulty to write a kissing scene in the VAMB secret drabble 2012 and Malezita witnessing how I sidestepped every detail.
Malezita's idea was to practice writing kissing scenes together. Then the idea evolved to write a story where the kiss-level-intensity and other things increase with each chapter, or as we call it here, lecture. The final story comprises seven lectures, starting from a PG-rated kiss and ending in NC-17 level, told alternatingly from Janeway's POV (Malezita) or Chakotay's POV (me).
After writing lecture#2 DrLizThirose joined our daily meetings in the VAMB chatroom and agreed to be a sounding-board and beta. DrLiz was not only a constant source of inspiration and kind support, but without her this story wouldn’t have been what it is now.
Besides being a J/C story, this is also a story about a transatlantic friendship between three people who have never met but overcame time differences, real life and other things to work for weeks together on a shared aim. I treasure each minute we’ve shared – it was and is a great pleasure working with Malezita and DrLiz. Thank you both so much!
Also many thanks to Katthryn, wo BETAed this story. All remaining mistakes are of course all ours.
Koneia May, 2012
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General notes to this story:
In the progress of writing ‘Kiss or Die’ (please imagine at the end of each sentence a *deadpan*)
- nobody ever used a whip or a trout,
- the VAMB-chat was rarely visited,
- Koneia never whined, complained or tried to sidestep any details,
- Malezita never complained about canon or C/7,
- DrLiz never died because of laughter.
The scientific explanation for the New Earth virus’ reactivation and cure is as sound as that in the episode ‘Resolution’. Like Paramount we just needed an excuse. While they stranded them on a planet to plant tomatoes and do some confessions which were never explored in more detail, we used it to expand our kiss-writing-abilities. Besides, like Chakotay we didn’t listen to the Doctor’s explanations.