Allow me start off by once again thanking everyone who has read and reviewed my story. I hope you enjoyed it. Over the next few pages I will be posting some notes I made while writing the story. I'm going to say right now that this story turned out very differently then the way I originally planned it. Well the ending was the same but there were definitely some changes in the plot.
Therefore allow me start off with my original idea for this story. I can't where remember where I got the idea but I wanted to show how Kim and Ron came to realize their feelings for each other and not just have one of them meet someone, the other get jealous, big love confession and kiss. The other thing is to those who said that this is like a movie script well that's because it was supposed to be. All of the events that occurred were supposed to be scenes in a movie. Another thing is that the story was supposed to be a lot longer, both on paper and in time elapsed. Originally the story would take place over the course of the entire school year. It was intended to be a trilogy. The first half of the year, from the first day until Christmas break, would be about Ron's feelings. The second half, from the first day back after Christmas break until the last day of school would be about Kim's feelings. Then graduation day would've been the final part of my trilogy. The first part about Ron's feelings was supposed to be split up into its own trilogy. I went and started to write down what would happen in the first two parts but never got around to the third. By this time though I had another idea for another story and then began some revisions.
This story is about Kim and Ron falling in love and the other story will be about them being heroes. The stories about them as heroes are also three parts but each one is its own story. I thought about doing the stories completely separate at first but then decided I would just make sort of series about the lives of Kim and Ron. So I came up with a bunch of stories that happen. The hero part of the series will be entitle "Heroes" with each individual story having a separate title. Anyways back to my original idea. I now had to change things up because now my story about Kim and Ron falling in love would no longer take place over a year but instead half of a year.
After making my first set of revisions I sat down to write my story. Everything in chapters 1-3 is exactly as I originally intended with the exception of a certain kiss. I had planned to have Kim and Ron start dating in around chapter six and have the events at the end of chapter eight occur in chapter nine with the exception that Kim would've been the one to initiate the kiss with Josh. Chapters ten through twelve would've been pretty much the same as the way chapters nine through eleven are now. When I went to write the story however I wasn't sure if I could bring Kim and Ron back together after tearing them apart like that. To have Josh kiss Kim and Ron get hurt and jealous is one thing but to have Kim be the one to kiss Josh is totally different. Anyways I went with what I had and somehow got to my ending that I had been planning all along. Granted though Kim's big lunch room decoration of love was supposed to be her valedictorian speech and then we would have the tree house ending. That ending was the first thing I wrote and it's where I was going to get to no matter what. The other event that I wrote at the very beginning was the scene at the end of chapter eight. I know some people have said that they don't like songfics or that I used too many songs and I will admit that I did. At the beginning of chapter eight where Kim and Ron are singing Oasis songs, it is completely filler and is just there to make the chapter seem longer. I will go into more detail about the songs and other things on the pages of my notes.
Finally I would like to take this time to answer some questions that I have seen posted in reviews. I will answer all further questions by posting reviews myself.
jarmitc2032 said "The thing that I have a hard time understanding is if Kim does not want Ron as a boyfriend, then why does she want him to kiss her in mall."
Alright here's the thing. Kim and Ron were both supposed to be indecisive if they wanted to kiss each other and if the other one wanted to be kissed. It's also one of those things that happened because of the kiss that wasn't supposed to happen and I'm not sure if this scene would've taken place if things went as planned.
Ron Stop said "that was really confusing what happened there with Josh kissing Kim and all that?"
In my original plot formula Kim and Josh would've gone out twice. The first time would've been the end of the second part of the trilogy about Ron's part of the entire trilogy. I hope that makes sense. Anyways Kim and Josh were supposed to go out and break up during part one of Ron's story. Get together again at the end of part two of Ron's story and then have Josh dump Kim at the end of Ron's story. Since things got messed up for me I just used the scene as I originally intended and the kiss was just there so that all the drama could happen.
Ron Stop said "whats with the title? christmas tree?"
I just couldn't think of anything better. It really has nothing to do with the story or anything for that matter.
BuckNC said "Not sure where you're going with the treehouse bit…"
The tree house was supposed to be symbolic of Kim and Ron's friendship. Both were in a state of upheaval and by Kim fixing the tree house it was supposed to show that she could fix her relationship with Ron. The whole pictures along the wall time-line thing was supposed to show Ron that she really did care about their friendship and that she cared about him.
Well that's it for the author's notes. On the next few pages you will see my thoughts and ideas for this story. Please feel free to tell me what you liked and didn't like and as always be on the lookout for my next story "Heroes."