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Just some fun facts about the parts of one of my one-shot books, The Thrill of First Love, since I just posted the last part of it!

a
• The first one-shot I made was actually about Christian and Andrew, but I decided to post it as b instead and replaced it with this one.
• I was originally gonna publish that book on the new year (hence why I made that second one-shot new year related) but I got too excited so I made this Christmas one-shot!
• And yes, I knew Whizzer is half Jewish and I didn't stray away from that, I just simply assumed at the time that, what, the other half was Catholic? and decided to write that whoops

b
• I made this after watching that Show People vid with Christian Borle on YouTube. I made a few references to that haha. I love that video sm

c
• Based this off the lyric "The pitcher's handsome" because why not? 😄
• I thought about it for a while and was like, what if Marvin hates baseball because of something that happened in the past? Of course, this was an AU, but put his hatred for the sport and Whizzer's love for it them BAM! A fic! 😂

d
• The amount of times I tried to publish this was ridiculous. I was off wattpad for a few weeks too so I thought I only had three chapters posted, and so I made ANOTHER one-shot, except it was now Christian who gets sick, because I didn't really like this one. Little did I know, this one WAS posted, and I was so frustrated like you would not believe 😭😡 The Christian getting sick one-shot is now n.

e
• I was at my own local grocery when I got this idea lol

f
• AHA! I loved making this one because at that time I knew NOTHING about CATCF, only the fact that Christian was the lead. I did some research while writing it, and boy was I so confused when three names popped up when I searched the actor of Charlie. I eventually got it though and decided to pick one, and that was Jake Ryan Flynn's.
• I now have a bias to listening closely to the songs with JRF in it, simply because I wrote about him before I knew what he even looked or sounded like lol! I'm obsessed with all the Ryans tho HAHA

g
• I didn't really like this one. I don't know why. I rewrote it so much times that I just decided to post it before I could edit it again.
• This is where I made it clear that I wanted to reference other musicals in the book, and so I started with the one that started it all for me, Hamilton.
• Anthony Rosenthal had a YouTube video about the two characters he's known for, Les (Newsies) and Jason, having a rap battle. I practically memorize it all so I thought it would be fun to call Marvin in this fic "Mr. Jew" because in the vid, Anthony called Jason "Jason Jew" LMAO

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• I really loved writing this one. This marked the start of my continuously growing love for Stephanie J. Block.
• I thought that SJB had seen Something Rotten! before because in a video, she said, and I quote: "The man is a genius," which I assumed was a reference (and she was talking about CB so how could I not lol). So I made this fic based off that!
• I also based it off the fact that SJB and AR did work together before. My god, their harmonies in those videos. I found a pic from their performance and it's the one attached there.
• I just loved how there were many things connecting SR! to Book of Mormon. Michael James Scott (he originated the Minstrel and Gotswana), Casey Nicholaw (choreographer for both, director for SR!)... like YES
• I crack my fingers a lot, so I made it a sort of habit for Andrew in this fic yay
• Also "You'll have a new Broadway boyfriend and his name is Christian Borle" is a twist I made from the original thing Christian said in the same video I talked about earlier, which was "I have a new Broadway boyfriend and his name is Andrew Rannells, and I'm really really excited about it"

i
• I was sad while listening to Falsettos again. I used up that emotion to write this

j
• I kept staring at pictures of the screening that time I made this. Like, was the cast USED to the bald egg? 😝 lol