All the Small Things - Any Questions?

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I thought it might be interesting to reflect on some of the thoughts, influences, and other such stuff that went into the writing of All the Small Things (AtST for short), if only because they're otherwise a bunch of jottings in various notebooks that will probably go astray.

Got a question/comment about AtST? Curious about why I did something a

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So, so many questions. Start simple :)

I love hearing how a story came about, so. Why this particular one? What started it? Why this particular time in the band's story? And why McFly?

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Started to post a reply, then realised it was likely to get quite long, so I'll post the answer as a separate article and link to it from here.

Hmm. I wish LiveJournal let me, ah, never mind…

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Hmmm?

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Just to keep the thread going, I've added a couple more articles, one about the characters' speaking voices, the other about the characters' internal voices.

The wish LJ would… was because I used to do stuff with a system called Drupal. It had some nifty ways of organising articles and comments into book-like or wiki-like structures, which'd be nice to be able to do something like that here. No biggie, it's not really what LJ is for, but [shrug].