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Post by laura on Dec 28, 2010 9:55:28 GMT -5
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Post by sb on Dec 28, 2010 22:09:09 GMT -5
It wasn't happy. But it was very very good. You write with one hand on the keyboard the other on a knife.
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Post by laura on Dec 30, 2010 15:51:17 GMT -5
Awww, thank you Beth, you make me sound so fierce!
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Post by laura on Jan 3, 2011 0:35:37 GMT -5
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Post by laura on Jan 19, 2011 0:07:06 GMT -5
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Post by laura on Feb 9, 2011 0:31:22 GMT -5
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Post by laura on Feb 21, 2011 12:15:35 GMT -5
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Post by laura on Feb 27, 2011 14:33:15 GMT -5
Again, it's not a story update, but it is a bit of a teaser! A taste of stories to come: "the observation deck".
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Post by laura on Mar 15, 2011 11:32:03 GMT -5
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Post by choco on Mar 16, 2011 10:32:05 GMT -5
Well, blogger won't let me post my comment so I'll try to recreate it. =(
I love first-person narratives. It's so much more complicated than it being just an affair, even for the person in the middle. It's worse when other people know or think they know all of the reasons of why what happened, happened.
My heart dropped when I saw Corbin and I can't imagine how much further it must have dropped for Leila. I just wish it wasn't so uncomfortable but, at the same time, what else could I expect? I totally understand why Corbin would want to get away and the situation with Leila does suck but what about everyone else? Doesn't he feel a pull toward them to stay? Sure, he and Amelia have had a strange relationship but that's kind of the beauty of it. They're the strangest BFFs ever. I can understand his wanting to leave not only for his family but for himself. I essentially picked up and left without so much of a word once and, while my situation was just a tad different from theirs, it was needed when things were getting too hard to hold together.
I just want them to have another passionate kiss! Is that too much to ask? Can my wish not spur the hands of fate (i.e. you, Laura, if you're listening)? Ah, I have so many questions!
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Post by laura on Mar 16, 2011 12:42:50 GMT -5
I'm so glad to hear the 1st person works. I don't normally use it in LH because there are so many characters that I can't usually get that much in tune with their voices very often, but Leila was speaking to me here, so I went with it. Her novel will also be told in 1st, I think - with chapters from both Corbin and Matt in 3rd. (Going to be complicated, lol!) Corbin will definitely have a chance to explain himself in the next piece. (And yes, Amelia wasn't very happy about his idea either, lol! Or Justin or Lily.) I can't say much else, but I think you'll be pleased enough with the ending I have in mind
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Post by laura on Apr 3, 2011 10:20:34 GMT -5
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Post by choco on Apr 3, 2011 21:07:14 GMT -5
Oh, Laura! It was quite passionate. I had an ear-to-ear smile the more I kept reading. I tried to post on the blog but Blogger isn't being very nice to me. So, I'll just copy-and-paste: OK, so I read this last night but was too incoherent to make a proper comment. Now I'm awake & hopefully it comes out semi-coherent.
So, I was one of the pessimists who didn't think that Leila and Corbin would have a chance to get together anytime in the next ten years. I agree with Beth, it makes me hopeful for the little miracles that are more prevalent than the grand ones. I'm so happy to see that they go have their chance and it wasn't rushed and they were truly able to enjoy the experience. What I've loved about Leila's narratives is that she sounds like the every-girl. I know she certainly reminds me of myself, in particular being sorry for not living up to what others see for me or want me to be in a perfectly designated box. It's frightening but refreshing and it definitely will take some time to get used to.
The time apart would do them winders. I'm glad that it isn't a permanent move too. This has been an intense love affair and things need to get sorted out before there's a chance. I'm glad that there wasn't a huge rush to just enter a relationship before the divorce was even final. At least this will give them some time to know each other even further. But, woo! That sexual tension could be cut with a chainsaw. At least it's out there and done with and I can go to sleep at night. Of course, I wish things landed differently, if they were both single and there weren't hearts being broken but maybe this is something that Leila needed to go through? I certainly think it would have happened sooner had she and Matt just continued to date while she was at college or even after. The sad thing is that there were exchanges of vows and promises of death do us part and those beautiful children. Life has got one kind of a sense of humor, doesn't it?
I also agree with Riverdale. I wish I had Photoshop skills. My sister has it and is learning it pretty well (with help from YouTube) and has fixed some things up for me. I want to be as awesome as you with my Gimp. skills one day.
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Post by laura on Apr 3, 2011 22:38:24 GMT -5
Choco, I'm very glad it passed the test! You know, I was just commenting something about this to Sarah, on the blog, about the time apart. It kind of popped up at the last minute, and wasn't something I had planned all along. Funny enough, I think I see Corbin gaining more from this time apart than Leila will. All of this has kind of roughed him up a bit, lol! And I feel like he really wants to see his parents again (I think I'll even actually make his parents in Sim form), and it'll be healthy for him to reconnect with his own roots before he moves into this next (very big) phase of his life. But her, I think she could stand to have him around. I never saw him being smothering to her in that way, and she isn't clingy or needy in that way either. But his friendship is beneficial to her, and especially right now, she could stand to have another ally. But in any case, it's in the works now, so they'll have to deal. I am really sorry about not being able to get to more of Matt's story in the blog version, but really, he has such a long road stretched out ahead of him before he comes to his peace. The main point though, that I wished I could have gotten to, was that even if this marriage wasn't meant to last, it still served a very important purpose. Leila doesn't regret the time she spent with him, and I guess the hope is that in time, Matt will come to peace with what it was, rather than what he thought it was going to be. But well, that's what the book will be about Photoshop is a lot of fun to play with - but like anything, practice makes perfect? I'd need a lot more practice to be perfect though! But you know, I can do arms 'n stuff, lol!
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Post by lepifera on Apr 4, 2011 1:05:57 GMT -5
Leila and Matt's relationship reminds me of the poem by William Stafford, titled "Ask Me":
"Some time when the river is ice ask me mistakes I have made. Ask me whether what I have done is my life. Others have come in their slow way into my thought, and some have tried to help or to hurt - ask me what difference their strongest love or hate has made.
I will listen to what you say. You and I can turn and look at the silent river and wait. We know the current is there, hidden; and there are comings and goings from miles away that hold the stillness exactly before us. What the river says, that is what I say."
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Post by laura on Apr 4, 2011 6:40:29 GMT -5
Oh, that's a beautiful poem! I love the part about the hidden currents. That's lovely! And while we're throwing up poems, lol! I suppose now I'll never get to use this song as a soundtrack, since we're not going there in the blog, but this was particularly inspirational in the later parts of their story: "One" by U2 [ song here] Is it getting better? Or do you feel the same? Will it make it easier on you now? You got someone to blame You say One love, one life When it's one need In the night One love, we get to share it Leaves you baby if you Don't care for it Did I disappoint you? Or leave a bad taste in your mouth? You act like you never had love And you want me to go without Well it's Too late, tonight To drag the past out into the light We're one, but we're not the same We get to, carry each other Carry each other One Have you come here for forgiveness? Have you come to raise the dead? Have you come here to play Jesus? To the lepers in your head Did I ask too much? More than a lot. You gave me nothing, Now it's all I got We're one But we're not the same Well we hurt each other Then we do it again You say, love is a temple Love a higher law Love is a temple Love the higher law You ask me to enter But then you make me crawl And I can't be holding on To what you got When all you got is hurt One love, One blood One life You got to do what you should One life, With each other Sisters, Brothers One life But we're not the same We get to Carry each other Carry each other
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Post by laura on Apr 9, 2011 22:23:20 GMT -5
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Post by laura on May 3, 2011 9:12:51 GMT -5
I'm very sad to say I won't be visiting this forum anymore, and thus this thread won't be updated any longer either. Lakeside Heights has a long future ahead of it though, so I recommend subscribing via Google Reader or the Blogger follow box, so you won't miss a thing! You can also find update notices and bite-sized babble on the LH Twitter feed: twitter.com/lakesideheightsOr you can get update notices on the LH Facebook page too: www.facebook.com/LakesideHeightsAnd for general writing chatter, follow: twitter.com/LauraRaeAmosIt's been a pleasure sharing my story with you all, and I hope you'll all continue to keep in touch!
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