With The Beatles

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This story has been such a lovely journey for me. Despite all the anxiety I had as a new writer I still managed to finish this baby. I really hope you enjoyed this story as much as I had fun writing it. :D

So I'd like to share some facts that kept me guided throughout the writing process. Since I don't really have anyone to chitchat about it and who knows we might get along hihi ʘ‿ʘ

• HOW THE STORY STARTED

During my first and second year in high school, there's this radio segment I listen to every morning before going to school. It's called The Beatles Anthology and it's a one-hour cut that plays nonstop Beatles songs and also talks about the stories of each track. It was my gateway to getting to know the band until I watched their videos, fell in love, and the rest is history.

Like every other modern Beatles fan, I can't help but imagine some scenarios in my head like what if the Beatles were here in our time... doing those and that stuff? Soon I was daydreaming about how it'd feel like if the fab four sing for me, write a song to comfort me about my personal problems, spending time with them and a lot more. (I know a lot of us do that, too) I also thought how they would react to the new technology in a fun way. Then one day I asked my dad on what he'd do if the young Beatles would suddenly show up in the future; that's where we had an hour long conversation about how it's going to be dangerous for the time travellers, how it would affect the music industry, the society, the world and all that.

I'm quite active when it comes to writing. My parents were once proud when I would write English stories as a child. Because of that I get to participate in writing contests and activities in school. Sometimes I'd get payed for doing other people's essays. I don't know if my works were worthy though. XD

So with that little skill, I wrote the Prologue and the beginning of Take 1 on a random notebook when I was thirteen. I already had the characters and plot in mind. But it was just the little corners of the puzzle; like my characters that time were only Jude, Agatha, James, Cedric, and Uncle Eddie. The idea of the Beatles bad attitude was already there but I didn't know how to make it work like what I said in the description. I was also reading a lot of good fanfictions which made me insecure that my story wouldn't be strong enough as theirs. So because of all that frustration I gave up on the story.

Two years later I found that notebook while looking through my past essays. Since it's quarantine and I wanted to try writing on Wattpad, I thought about continuing the plot I left behind. That's where the ideas came rushing. I thought of adding the side characters, some stuff I learned from basic Quantum Physics, and even the part where I included another band.

It took a whole month for me to complete the plot and by around December of 2020, I started encoding it.

And, voila! Here it is. :)

• OBJECTIVES AND MOTIVATION

-To write a fanfiction in which the Beatles history and real-life stories are being valued and shared.

-To write a fanfiction where the Beatles don't have to involve themselves in romantic relationships with fictional characters. No offence to those stories, they're lovely but we really should take a break from all those common plots and appreciate the real women of the Beatles as the real inspiration for their music. Jude's relationship with the Beatles is... Click To Read More

-To make everyone see the goodness in each member and what makes them special in their own way. Some stories don't give George and Ringo enough significance like they do to John and Paul. Each of the members have 7½ point of views in this story so it really doesn't matter who you stan because all four gets equal importance and exposure.