DJ: Have you ever regretted kidnapping FC and FS, who used to be your best friends, at all?
Mara: How did you come up with such an awesome idea?!?!?! An also, the title?
Aurora: Do you know about the Lee-April-Nav triangle thingy? If so, who do you think April should marry--Nav or Lee?
DJ: My only regret is that Sheen chose to assist Libby in her escape. It was...unfortunate. I would rather have kept him as an ally.
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MARA: Well, TOSOT's plotline is a direct result of nick.com's stupid fanfic rules. I wanted to write a story about the kids' future selves, but the rules stated that the kids had to be the same age as they are in the show. So, I had to figure out a loophole - and the alternate universe was born. Had it not been for nick.com, the story would JUST have been about the adult characters.
Even before that, TOSOT had its roots in an original story of mine about a girl named Evie living in a post apocalyptic world (Aurora is based on Evie, and many of the themes are the same). Future Libby is based on a character from this story as well (only she was male, LOL). Nav's personality also came from the same work.
The title is a funny story. I was sitting at the drive-in movie theatre w/ my dad, bouncing ideas off him (he often helps me write). I was trying to come up with a title for the story, and all of the sudden I just jumped up and yelled, "I've got it! The Other Side of Tomorrow"! And he was like "...OK."
Immediately afterward I asked him what I should call Evil Jimmy, and he replied, without hesistation: "The Jiminator". I was like -fail-
Anyway, someday I might take what I wrote in TOSOT and re-apply it to my original story. If I could adapt it successfully, then I could SELL IT. Then I'd actually get paid for my work. Money. Money is good.
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AURORA: Ya, I could tell from the way Nav and Lee practically shoot sparks when they're around each other. The funny thing is, I always thought Lee and April would end up together - Nav's arrival just interrupted the inevitable.
I feel bad for Lee, but he needs to get over it and find someone else. Life is all about settling for less than what you wanted.
~*Mara*~ = ^.^ =