Hello, friends, who wants a long texty progress report?!?
Nobody? Well, you’re getting one anyway! 🤪
First, Thanksgiving is about to plow through everybody’s motivation for a week or two, right? Happy Turkey day to all who celebrate! 🦃 Then Christmas and New Year will be right behind it. 🎄☃️🎄 Let’s not set the bar too high, right?
In my noveling life, I have made exactly 800 words of progress on Miserable Ghost Story last month because my brain is stuck on Boxes and Squares instead. (B&S stories got about 12,000 words added, for a comparison.) Oops. I keep going back and forth on what to focus on first. MGS is a good little book, and if I could focus, it would be quick to finish and get out the door, but I’m just so damn obsessed with my B&S characters. My stupid brain writes what it wants to write about. 😖
And mostly, in writing, I feel like it’s a good idea to go where the energy wants to go. When a story is calling, it’s a lot easier to work on something that is calling than trying to force something that is not calling.
But I think also why I’m so obsessed with the story and getting through book 5 is because I feel like it’ll free up my brain a little to work on other things, both in sim stories and otherwise. There’s this mid-story climax point we’ve been building toward and we’re almost there!
So, plow ahead forward? Right? Right???
But wait…
Now I’m kind of picking at some things from book 1 that never got to be part of the blog version, and I want them to be. Some things that were part of old gameplay stories that I want to revise and expand.
Don’t redo old stories… don’t redo old stories… don’t redo old stories!!!
Except I kind of want to go back and redo old stories. 😂🤣😂🤣😵
I guess I’m a bit of a completionist. I know the blog version is not going to include everything from the novels—it could never—but it should include the important things. The things that develop characters and explain motives and maybe just a little bit of the absolutely precious fluff that deserves to be illustrated with sims, just because.
And I do intend to leave the blog version up when the novel version is published (because I’m an indie author and I do what I want!), so I want them both to be as full as they can be for their format.
Because, at the end of the day, this sims story version is here to please me, and please you guys, and it serves no other purpose than that, really. So, it would make me happy to go back and redo some of those earlier pre-story sections, like before even My Sweetheart. So I think I will.
Because I really do want to get back to Colette in #5.3 and she really does need to get laid! But funny enough, after her shock in #5.2 pt 10, then drafting Colette in #5.3, I felt like she was wanting to dig so much into her history of that time and the failure of that relationship. So I’ve been spending a lot of time in that era anyway.
So, a quick flashback story first??? (I said quick, but I didn’t say little. It’s not really very little. But with the writing done and grabbing a few select pictures, I think I can post it quick.)
The flashback story begins almost one year ago in story time, on Maria’s birthday. It’s an expansion/retelling of this gameplay post, which was their first real story on the blog (not as supporting characters), with Maria and Jordan in their flirty coworkers era, and Jordan and Colette in the last months of their quickly deteriorating togetherness. Then it also fills in the gaps in and around “my sweetheart #2” and what drove Jordan to decide to ultimately blow up his life.
As it stands, it’s about 10,000 words (I’m so so sorry! I promise they’re good ones? 😬😬😬) and will be split into 3 chapters of 4-6 parts each.
Some characters are super excited to be back in this era:
Look at her absolutely cheesing at this man! 😆
Girl, stop and get back to work! You’re not even getting a kiss out of him for another 8 months!
Others are not so happy to be back in this time of their life:
He’s like, “Why, oh god why are you doing this to meeeeee?!?!?”
So, coming soon. Unfortunately, I need to build something for the first part, but this is a real historical save point, so all their other houses and locations are ready to be filmed in.
Well, my computer is definitely dying v.v I wiped it and re-installed the OS, but the problem persists. Some vital part is in its death throes, I fear. Considering it is a pc made up entirely out of age old spare parts from my ex, I am surprised it lasted this long. I still have my laptop for uni stuff, so I’m good there, but the laptop is not exactly set for gaming. DAI does not run on it at all.
So, for now I will try to make the best of this damn thing for as long as I can, random shutdowns and all. And then see if I can save up for a new one. Ah, well. Looks like I might have to say goodbye to my games for a bit once this one is dead. Not the end of the world, for sure, but still kind of sad. Oh, well.
