Author's Notes for A Day In The Park

Hello and thank you for reading "A Day In The Park", a story I've been promising y'all for several months. I've got a few things to say about this one that would unnecessarily clog an afterword box, so please follow me past the jump.

This is probably the most technically-difficult story I've written to date. That's due entirely to the fact that most of Sonata's dialogue and all of Adagio's consist of song lyrics. It's not that easy to take different songs from vastly different artists and stitch them together into a coherent narrative. Or incoherent one in this case. Or maybe it's actually very easy and I just suck at writing; I'm willing to concede that. All I have to show for my effort is 1600 words.

How many references are there? I haven't counted in a while, but I hope you enjoyed picking them all out.

I wrote the bulk of ADITP back in September, but I wasn't happy with it, so I decided to concentrate on Sunset's "Recovery Arc" and MBT instead. Now that those are out of the way, I had no excuse to leave it hanging.

I first got the idea for ADITP while listening to Vince Guaraldi's "Little Birdie" -- which was the working title until I realized it no longer worked, so I changed it to a Beatles reference instead. I left it lay because there was a passage in the middle where I found myself referencing the same band four times in a row, but my music knowledge is pretty crap, so I couldn't figure out how to vary things up yet still keep the plot (such as it is) on-track until just last week, while listening to one of George Harrison's solo albums to try and feel less despondent. I fixed the passage to make it less crap, and here we are.

And yes, this does count as the latest (though earliest by timeline) entry in my "Burritoverse".

PS -- I also changed the very last paragraph to be a lot less meta. Originally it directly referenced the events of "Aria Blaze Steals A Burrito". Not sure if dialing down the stupidity was the right decision, but it is what it is.