Notes from the Dino Pen, on the making of Surviver.
DISCLAIMER: All characters in this story are fictitious. This story
borrows it's theme from the Survivor TV production, but
is in no way connected with the show, with Castaway
Productions, Survivor Inc, or the Columbia Broadcasting
System (CBS).
This is entirely a work of fiction and is intended for a
mature audience. Viewer discretion advised, some scenes
contain strong sexual content.
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show from this story, drop me a line. We'll talk :)
THANKS TO: This story could not have been written without the help
of Leviticus. For his offering up the character of the
Major, for his coming up with so many of the great and
wacky challenges, and for his reading my rough text and
making countless suggestions for changes and putting up
with my whining and arguing about said changes, I offer
my most sincere thanks.
SURVIVER / Throughout this work, I have chosen an alternative
SURVIVOR spelling of Survivor to differentiate this work of
fiction, from the actual television show, Survivor. I
would simply prefer not to receive any tersely worded
E-mails from CBS lawyers, unless they're to tell me how
much they liked the story.
THE MAKING I got the idea to do this story from the original
OF SURVIVER: Survivor TV show that aired in the Summer of 2000. That
first series, on the island, with Rich and Rudy, Sue and
Kelly and the rest. For me, the magic of that series was
the island. That tropical paradise where the weather's
always warm, the ocean water is warm, and it only rains
for a while and then gets sunny again. Well, they did
have a few days of solid rain, but it's a warm rain.
Right? Not snow, at least.
It's taken me over a year to write this thing. Over a
year to write the text and put it all together into a
coherent story. I began with the idea of some dom and
sub couples, stuck on an island and competing in kinky
challenges. And of course, the subs had to be chained in
some way for the whole time.
The intro story for Colleen and John came first. Within
that piece, grew the announcement for a fictitious
contest that would have been posted in D&S Newsgroups
and websites and maybe in adult magazines. Colleen and
John, then Brandi and Marsha. I made a start on the
intro for Sam and Trish, but it was Summertime and
vacation time, so I took a short break from the project.
I began to get a sense of the real scope of this
project. I began to realize just how much work would be
involved. I took a camping trip with the wife on the
week the final Survivor episode aired. (I'd set the VCR
before we left.) The newspaper headline the day after it
aired: The Snake Wins! Rich, the guy everyone loved to
hate, walked off the island with a million bucks.
I started writing another short story to clear my mind
of, or for, Surviver. I took another camping trip in the
fall, by myself this time. A chance to unwind and get my
thoughts in order. I finished off my other story, but
all the while, Surviver was rolling around in the back
of my mind. Gathering steam.
About that time I must have mentioned the project to
Leviticus. I'd come up with three challenge ideas for
the shows, all three of which sucked. I wanted to do 13
episodes, just like a real TV series, and with two
challenges per episode I'd need 26 ever more wild ideas.
Leviticus sent me a couple of pages of challenges, and
then came up with more as the episodes progressed. I
ended up using almost all of his ideas, plus added a few
of my own.
In January of this year I began writing episodes in
earnest. Soon after I began, Survivor II went to air. I
worried that people might think that I was watching
those shows and then writing my episodes by simply
taking their ideas, making them kinky, and putting them
into Surviver. What I found, seemed like the opposite.
In my first episode I had my group discover how to start
a fire by using a bow drill. Low and behold, on the
first episode of Survivor II, the two tribes try using a
bow to start their fires.
I didn't want my gang to starve, so I had the show's
producers turn loose a few wild pigs on the island. In
my episode 3, the Major gets one. Episode 3, I believe,
of Survivor II, aired two weeks after I'd written my
episode. Michael captures and kills a wild pig.
One of my challenges had groups of challengers roped
together at the waist. A week after I wrote that bit,
I'm watching the teams of Survivor II running a race,
yes, roped together at the waist. Hooray! Bondage on
National TV!
So while it may look like I simply stole ideas from the
original shows, in fact, I didn't. Honest. Although I do
thank them for the Survivor idea.
Anyway, enjoy the Show. If you feel you'd like to write
to me, I remain:
Dino Dave. dino@canoemail.com