Post by pinkfiend1 on Jan 30, 2011 21:39:13 GMT -5
It's 2.40am here so:
How on earth have you all managed to do this so easily. I struggle to do the mosaic questions, let alone the others. But then I’m not as much a writer as anyone else. Please be warned I somehow manage to waffle on a lot.
Mosaic questions:
1. Age: 22
2. Fave food? Vegetable Lasagne, closely followed by tiramisu for desert or anything chocolately. I’m a vegetarian.
3. Fave Drink: Lilt but I don’t have it that often, or a mocha or cappachino. But always a hot chocolate before bed. Whilst I’m writing it tends to be coffee, tea if I’m in that kind of phase, more rarely herbal tea, and always with a glass of water/ squash on the desk.
4. Fave weather: Rain. I love rain. Especially the smell in the air after it rains. It’s beautiful. It inspired a poem of mine years and years ago. I still remember most of it though. But I’m not sharing that. Also love thunderstorms. When we lived in Sardinia we used to get some amazing lightning shows.
5. Fave colour: Pink is of course the main one but I don’t wear it, I used to wear a lot of black because I thought it made me look thin. But I love wearing red, I have this one red top and it makes me feel bold and confident. But I am also going through a bit of a orange phase.
6.Dream holiday: Lapland. I love the idea of going to Lapland. Australia would be great for the distant future, and America maybe when I have children to do Disney World, Seaworld and the safari park. Although going on a proper safari would be amazing.
7. Fave Book: Want to play? By P.J Tracey. All of their books in the Monkee Wrench series are fantastic. This is the first one, in USA it is called Monkee Wrench but Want to play? Does sound so much better. A lot of the British titles are better than the USA ones. A series of seemingly random murders occur until it is discovered that they are all scenes in a yet unreleased computer game.
8. Book I’m currently reading? Sheer Abandon, by Penny Vincenzi. It’s one of her better ones, her books tend to be a patchy, they all kind of stall in the middle and have a slow patch before spicing up again. I think Wicked Pleasures is my fave of hers. Plot: A baby is abandoned in a cleaning cupboard at an airport, without so much as a nappy on. You follow baby Kate’s life, and that of three friends who met an airport to go on their gap year, but which one of these now successful women, Jocasta, a top journalist with a boyfriend who’s scared to commit, Clio the GP with a marriage at breaking point, or Martha the extremely successful lawyer who falls into politics. It’ better than I make it sound anyway.
9. Fave author/book character: Agatha Christie. I love her books, only Poirot or Marple though I never really got into the others. Poirot is also my favourite character from literature as well.
10. Fave musical: Wicked. How could it be anything else. Now I know you may all wonder why it’s here because people don’t necessarily thing it’s proper writing, but musicals and plays last. Mousetrap (play written by Agatha Christie and Les Miserables have been on the stage consistently for decades. Music can last far longer than any book, or movie. But for Wicked the cast has to be right. You have to get the right voice for the Elphaba and Glinda most of all but you have to get the right chemistry there aswell to make it work and the chemistry with Fiyero is crucial too. I think there has only been two ways it has worked perfectly. Kerry Ellis (first British Elphaba)with Dianne Pilkington and liver Thompsett, although Kerry with anyone is wonderful, or Idina Menzel with Kristin Chenoweth (original Broadway cast, Idina also opened West End). Needless to say I also love Glee.
11. Fave movie: Loverboy. Fantastic little heard of film. About a woman (Kyra Sedgewick), who as a child had parents so totally wrapped up in each other they didn’t really have time for her, so she decides that when she has a child she will dedicate her life to the child and no one else, so she goes about it one her own. It explores the whole “can you love a child too much?” question. Seriosuly heart wrenching film. Tristan and Isolde second. Brilliant film. Before Romeo and Juliet there was Tristan and Isolde. Based on all the myths, legends, and poems that surround this pair of star-crossed lovers, based shortly after the Romans left Britain, and they are trying to rally against the Irish. Third is the Proposal. Sandra Bullock and the frankly georgeous if over-muscled Ryan Reynolds.
12. Current celebrity crush: I would not mind if he made me the second Mr Reynolds. Although the fact that he married the rubbish actress that is Scarlett Johansson is making me question his sanity. She only has two good movies and they are because she isn’t the lead, The horse whisperer, and The other Bolyn girl. Sorry I went off on a tangent again.
The other questions
1. My job: Unemployed but I volunteer at Shopmobility/Ring and Ride, which hires out large mobility equipment such as scooter, and both manual and electric wheelchairs. It also operates a Ring and Ride, a door to service taking clients into town shopping for a few hours. Plus there is a cancer care bus taking patients into hospital for radiotherapy treatments as it is a long drive to the nearest hospital which will do it. There’s also the charity shop side.
2. Where I live: I live in Yelland in North Devon in England. It’s a small little place 20 mins on the bus to Barnstaple which is where I volunteer and where all the shops are. Although there are a good few supermarkets dotted about.
3. Fave character of mine: I love Astrella Astrum at the moment, she has only just begun in my head, and not much is down on paper but I think she’ll make a great Legacy foundress, and she is about the only character I can think of at the moment. It will actually be a proper story rather than just a narration like the Pink’s, but they will have an impact on the Madness Barnacle Bay. So we’ll see how that goes. I have a habit of going overboard with plot in a short space of time, and I have commitment problems with keeping proper stories going, as they require so much effort. But Moon is in progress as well, she’s mid part writing, I just can’t decide who is the best husband material, for both her, the challenge and how I’d like a story to develop.
I do love the Pink’s. They are the longest I’ve played a family without cheating. With Sims 2 I had a alphabet legacy and I cheated with a number of gens to age them up to adults so I could breed them. I think Verlaine has probably been my favourite out of them with his constant tour’s of the town hall has he became leader of the free world, and then of the theatre as he still hasn’t completed the rock branch.
I also with Sims 3 had a family called the King’s. They were wonderful all the children were named after the royal family in alphabetical order. I still their family tree online. It saw the start of my mucked up family trees. Trust me it got very muddled. Well you can look for yourself should you wish. Gen A saw 11 children, 10 girls and 1 boy. I was going into very odd sounding very historical female names. Plus he raised 4 step-children. 1 became his second wife, she gave him the longed for son. Add some marrying of step-mothers/sister-in-laws down the line, and the F having a number of different wives /partners, he married one of triplets, having impregnated her sisters first. Oh the fun I had with them.
4. What I love most in the world: I love my pets; rabbits Liquorice and Sherbet, and the dog Quinnin. Then it’s Ben the bear, I can’t sleep without him. Then it’s my parents, and brother, and friends. It may seem like a weird order, but if my parents stopped insulting me so much on a regular basis they would go up the list.
5. When did I star writing and why: I think I started writing properly when I was about 13/14 or so, by that time school had become a nightmare and it was what kept me sane. I experimented with sonnets around them as well when we had to do them for class. Every so often I go back to sonnets, something will trigger it for no apparent reason and I also wonder why I do. I think I half finished one on the go somewhere. Simce I left secondary school though 6/7 years ago I haven’t written much poetry, probably about a handful of poems. Some were always more understandable than others. Some were extremely dark others slightly more light hearted, dealing with a variety of different subjects. I started writing my first novel when I was about 15/16 I never finished it. I had absolutely no experience of anything involved in it, so it was really pretty pointless and it just got lost along the way. Then in those summer holidays a new one began, also pretty stupid as I had no experience in what I was writing, and I didn’t have the patience to continue with any plot points I started and would rush to finish them in stupid ways, and like many things I write story wise it was so busy with so many different things happening to too few characters.
I started writing Sim stories about that time aswell with Simswap, he switched families every week and each wrote a part. I killed a lot of Sims during this time. In the end with Uni work switching families and having to play atleast a Sim week in a about 5 days it was too much, and it got to the stage where there were about 2 or 3 players whose stories could never be criticised and everyone else’s was, and those simmers really had no idea about how teenagers behave these days so really went to town on all those who tried to make the teens more real. In the end I quit, everyone was beginning to focus more on challenges then anyway. That was when I started and failed many legacies and apocalypses, then I discovered the prosperity challenge which was fun but I lost the hood around about the time that Sims 3 was coming out. Since then many challenges have been started and failed. I am determined to finish the ones I have going at the moment though. Somehow.
6. Current stories: Currently most of my attention is focused on my ISBI challenge Pink’s Madness. Because it’s more a narration and I don’t have to plot it, it is more fun, although I do get bored and do some stupid challenges to make it more interesting for me and readers. I’m doing it in a reverse alphabet and am currently on gen U. After Udenkwo’s father had a lot of illigitamate children, along with the 6 with his wife Celeste the house was still manic, as Udenkwo married Stacey’s Seth, and they have 6 children, and Celeste had twins with Seth her son-in-law. Plus she is pregnant again, but who is the dad? Plus with 2 of the U’s still in the house as teens it is manic. I spend most of time supervising the babies in the basement nursery where time seems to loose all meaning. Plus a lot of the illigitamates are having children so the neighbourhood is at breaking point throwing error 12’s constantly. So I often lose quite a lot of time as I have to go so slowly at the moment to keep up.
Moon’s Daisies my WYDC is very sporadically updated like everything else because I plotted it it’s become more of a chore to update, and I started plot points and I have no idea how to finish them.
On abrighter note I am starting a Legacy again as I need the second gen heiress to come over to BB and play a part in Heather’s spin off story. But I want to be on to gen 1 as teens before I start sharing that.
The Ratsnip chronicales following the Pinstar monthly challenges has stalled because I’m just so caught up in everything else I don’t have time, and the next one on the list Amanda Onthurun scares me rather.
The links for all of these are in my signature.
7. Using pre-mades: I tend to to use my own Sims to start of challenges, it seems more personal somehow, and I can create them how I want to fit my story purposes. For the Pinstar SOTM challenges I do of course use his Sims instead of recreating them. I do however marry in pre-made (I plan on marrying all the simselves into the ISBI at some point) and Maxis Sims, and I do play them occasionally usually when I’m testing out a new ep/sp.
8. Random thing: I like noses. I know it’s weird but I like that soft tip I just like touching it,and the softer and sort of bouncier the better. I also like feet. I know I am weird. Oh and the actor Bradley Cooper scared me. Not only because his nose is weird but something about how he always looks in pictures or comes across in movies, he looks like he should be in adult movies or something, I just wouldn’t want to meet him anywhere especially at night.
So anything else you want to know?
How on earth have you all managed to do this so easily. I struggle to do the mosaic questions, let alone the others. But then I’m not as much a writer as anyone else. Please be warned I somehow manage to waffle on a lot.
Mosaic questions:
1. Age: 22
2. Fave food? Vegetable Lasagne, closely followed by tiramisu for desert or anything chocolately. I’m a vegetarian.
3. Fave Drink: Lilt but I don’t have it that often, or a mocha or cappachino. But always a hot chocolate before bed. Whilst I’m writing it tends to be coffee, tea if I’m in that kind of phase, more rarely herbal tea, and always with a glass of water/ squash on the desk.
4. Fave weather: Rain. I love rain. Especially the smell in the air after it rains. It’s beautiful. It inspired a poem of mine years and years ago. I still remember most of it though. But I’m not sharing that. Also love thunderstorms. When we lived in Sardinia we used to get some amazing lightning shows.
5. Fave colour: Pink is of course the main one but I don’t wear it, I used to wear a lot of black because I thought it made me look thin. But I love wearing red, I have this one red top and it makes me feel bold and confident. But I am also going through a bit of a orange phase.
6.Dream holiday: Lapland. I love the idea of going to Lapland. Australia would be great for the distant future, and America maybe when I have children to do Disney World, Seaworld and the safari park. Although going on a proper safari would be amazing.
7. Fave Book: Want to play? By P.J Tracey. All of their books in the Monkee Wrench series are fantastic. This is the first one, in USA it is called Monkee Wrench but Want to play? Does sound so much better. A lot of the British titles are better than the USA ones. A series of seemingly random murders occur until it is discovered that they are all scenes in a yet unreleased computer game.
8. Book I’m currently reading? Sheer Abandon, by Penny Vincenzi. It’s one of her better ones, her books tend to be a patchy, they all kind of stall in the middle and have a slow patch before spicing up again. I think Wicked Pleasures is my fave of hers. Plot: A baby is abandoned in a cleaning cupboard at an airport, without so much as a nappy on. You follow baby Kate’s life, and that of three friends who met an airport to go on their gap year, but which one of these now successful women, Jocasta, a top journalist with a boyfriend who’s scared to commit, Clio the GP with a marriage at breaking point, or Martha the extremely successful lawyer who falls into politics. It’ better than I make it sound anyway.
9. Fave author/book character: Agatha Christie. I love her books, only Poirot or Marple though I never really got into the others. Poirot is also my favourite character from literature as well.
10. Fave musical: Wicked. How could it be anything else. Now I know you may all wonder why it’s here because people don’t necessarily thing it’s proper writing, but musicals and plays last. Mousetrap (play written by Agatha Christie and Les Miserables have been on the stage consistently for decades. Music can last far longer than any book, or movie. But for Wicked the cast has to be right. You have to get the right voice for the Elphaba and Glinda most of all but you have to get the right chemistry there aswell to make it work and the chemistry with Fiyero is crucial too. I think there has only been two ways it has worked perfectly. Kerry Ellis (first British Elphaba)with Dianne Pilkington and liver Thompsett, although Kerry with anyone is wonderful, or Idina Menzel with Kristin Chenoweth (original Broadway cast, Idina also opened West End). Needless to say I also love Glee.
11. Fave movie: Loverboy. Fantastic little heard of film. About a woman (Kyra Sedgewick), who as a child had parents so totally wrapped up in each other they didn’t really have time for her, so she decides that when she has a child she will dedicate her life to the child and no one else, so she goes about it one her own. It explores the whole “can you love a child too much?” question. Seriosuly heart wrenching film. Tristan and Isolde second. Brilliant film. Before Romeo and Juliet there was Tristan and Isolde. Based on all the myths, legends, and poems that surround this pair of star-crossed lovers, based shortly after the Romans left Britain, and they are trying to rally against the Irish. Third is the Proposal. Sandra Bullock and the frankly georgeous if over-muscled Ryan Reynolds.
12. Current celebrity crush: I would not mind if he made me the second Mr Reynolds. Although the fact that he married the rubbish actress that is Scarlett Johansson is making me question his sanity. She only has two good movies and they are because she isn’t the lead, The horse whisperer, and The other Bolyn girl. Sorry I went off on a tangent again.
The other questions
1. My job: Unemployed but I volunteer at Shopmobility/Ring and Ride, which hires out large mobility equipment such as scooter, and both manual and electric wheelchairs. It also operates a Ring and Ride, a door to service taking clients into town shopping for a few hours. Plus there is a cancer care bus taking patients into hospital for radiotherapy treatments as it is a long drive to the nearest hospital which will do it. There’s also the charity shop side.
2. Where I live: I live in Yelland in North Devon in England. It’s a small little place 20 mins on the bus to Barnstaple which is where I volunteer and where all the shops are. Although there are a good few supermarkets dotted about.
3. Fave character of mine: I love Astrella Astrum at the moment, she has only just begun in my head, and not much is down on paper but I think she’ll make a great Legacy foundress, and she is about the only character I can think of at the moment. It will actually be a proper story rather than just a narration like the Pink’s, but they will have an impact on the Madness Barnacle Bay. So we’ll see how that goes. I have a habit of going overboard with plot in a short space of time, and I have commitment problems with keeping proper stories going, as they require so much effort. But Moon is in progress as well, she’s mid part writing, I just can’t decide who is the best husband material, for both her, the challenge and how I’d like a story to develop.
I do love the Pink’s. They are the longest I’ve played a family without cheating. With Sims 2 I had a alphabet legacy and I cheated with a number of gens to age them up to adults so I could breed them. I think Verlaine has probably been my favourite out of them with his constant tour’s of the town hall has he became leader of the free world, and then of the theatre as he still hasn’t completed the rock branch.
I also with Sims 3 had a family called the King’s. They were wonderful all the children were named after the royal family in alphabetical order. I still their family tree online. It saw the start of my mucked up family trees. Trust me it got very muddled. Well you can look for yourself should you wish. Gen A saw 11 children, 10 girls and 1 boy. I was going into very odd sounding very historical female names. Plus he raised 4 step-children. 1 became his second wife, she gave him the longed for son. Add some marrying of step-mothers/sister-in-laws down the line, and the F having a number of different wives /partners, he married one of triplets, having impregnated her sisters first. Oh the fun I had with them.
4. What I love most in the world: I love my pets; rabbits Liquorice and Sherbet, and the dog Quinnin. Then it’s Ben the bear, I can’t sleep without him. Then it’s my parents, and brother, and friends. It may seem like a weird order, but if my parents stopped insulting me so much on a regular basis they would go up the list.
5. When did I star writing and why: I think I started writing properly when I was about 13/14 or so, by that time school had become a nightmare and it was what kept me sane. I experimented with sonnets around them as well when we had to do them for class. Every so often I go back to sonnets, something will trigger it for no apparent reason and I also wonder why I do. I think I half finished one on the go somewhere. Simce I left secondary school though 6/7 years ago I haven’t written much poetry, probably about a handful of poems. Some were always more understandable than others. Some were extremely dark others slightly more light hearted, dealing with a variety of different subjects. I started writing my first novel when I was about 15/16 I never finished it. I had absolutely no experience of anything involved in it, so it was really pretty pointless and it just got lost along the way. Then in those summer holidays a new one began, also pretty stupid as I had no experience in what I was writing, and I didn’t have the patience to continue with any plot points I started and would rush to finish them in stupid ways, and like many things I write story wise it was so busy with so many different things happening to too few characters.
I started writing Sim stories about that time aswell with Simswap, he switched families every week and each wrote a part. I killed a lot of Sims during this time. In the end with Uni work switching families and having to play atleast a Sim week in a about 5 days it was too much, and it got to the stage where there were about 2 or 3 players whose stories could never be criticised and everyone else’s was, and those simmers really had no idea about how teenagers behave these days so really went to town on all those who tried to make the teens more real. In the end I quit, everyone was beginning to focus more on challenges then anyway. That was when I started and failed many legacies and apocalypses, then I discovered the prosperity challenge which was fun but I lost the hood around about the time that Sims 3 was coming out. Since then many challenges have been started and failed. I am determined to finish the ones I have going at the moment though. Somehow.
6. Current stories: Currently most of my attention is focused on my ISBI challenge Pink’s Madness. Because it’s more a narration and I don’t have to plot it, it is more fun, although I do get bored and do some stupid challenges to make it more interesting for me and readers. I’m doing it in a reverse alphabet and am currently on gen U. After Udenkwo’s father had a lot of illigitamate children, along with the 6 with his wife Celeste the house was still manic, as Udenkwo married Stacey’s Seth, and they have 6 children, and Celeste had twins with Seth her son-in-law. Plus she is pregnant again, but who is the dad? Plus with 2 of the U’s still in the house as teens it is manic. I spend most of time supervising the babies in the basement nursery where time seems to loose all meaning. Plus a lot of the illigitamates are having children so the neighbourhood is at breaking point throwing error 12’s constantly. So I often lose quite a lot of time as I have to go so slowly at the moment to keep up.
Moon’s Daisies my WYDC is very sporadically updated like everything else because I plotted it it’s become more of a chore to update, and I started plot points and I have no idea how to finish them.
On abrighter note I am starting a Legacy again as I need the second gen heiress to come over to BB and play a part in Heather’s spin off story. But I want to be on to gen 1 as teens before I start sharing that.
The Ratsnip chronicales following the Pinstar monthly challenges has stalled because I’m just so caught up in everything else I don’t have time, and the next one on the list Amanda Onthurun scares me rather.
The links for all of these are in my signature.
7. Using pre-mades: I tend to to use my own Sims to start of challenges, it seems more personal somehow, and I can create them how I want to fit my story purposes. For the Pinstar SOTM challenges I do of course use his Sims instead of recreating them. I do however marry in pre-made (I plan on marrying all the simselves into the ISBI at some point) and Maxis Sims, and I do play them occasionally usually when I’m testing out a new ep/sp.
8. Random thing: I like noses. I know it’s weird but I like that soft tip I just like touching it,and the softer and sort of bouncier the better. I also like feet. I know I am weird. Oh and the actor Bradley Cooper scared me. Not only because his nose is weird but something about how he always looks in pictures or comes across in movies, he looks like he should be in adult movies or something, I just wouldn’t want to meet him anywhere especially at night.
So anything else you want to know?