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Post by laura on Feb 10, 2011 15:29:55 GMT -5
Lepifera, LOL! Well no judgment from me - I spent a good couple hours the other night just watching and taking pictures of my fireplace, lol! (I still need to upload those!)
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Post by laura on Feb 10, 2011 15:41:39 GMT -5
I'm getting a lot of work done on the Jodie/Amelia novel. (Turned into a novel, by the way. A smallish one, at least, and will probably top off at about 60,000 words, or around 200 pages.) It's going to be called "likely to fail". I thought I'd share a character list I made up, if anyone is interested about which LH characters will make it into the novel! Jodie, Amelia, Drew, Piper, Berjes, Claire, Corbin, (Alon), (Andy), Hazel, Moira, Richard, Jason, and Hayden. Alon and Andy in parenthesis because they don't actually appear in the novel, but are important to the story anyway. And that's all I can say about it for certain right now. I should be able to say a lot more by early March
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Post by somuchsong on Feb 13, 2011 4:03:18 GMT -5
Wow, that's way more characters than I thought would make it in! I guess I never sat down and thought about just how many people were involved in that story arc on LH. That's very cool that you've got so much work done on it!
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Post by laura on Feb 13, 2011 10:48:12 GMT -5
I should also note that a lot of those will only get minor appearances And the only POV characters will be Jodie and Amelia, I think. Possibly Drew too, for a chapter or two, but I'm not quite sure on that yet. Piper, Berjes, Claire, and Corbin will play a pretty significant part in the story though.
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Post by choco on Feb 20, 2011 4:40:59 GMT -5
I'm quite interested in this "smallish" novel. Yay for being productive. Feels great doesn't it?
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Post by laura on Feb 21, 2011 7:56:46 GMT -5
Yay! Thanks for the interest! I'm very eager for you all to see it! It really does feel good to be so immersed in something, and loving it! I'm sure when I get to about the halfway point, I'll start to feel more sluggish about the project, lol! I'm still in the honeymoon phase
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Post by lepifera on Feb 25, 2011 5:04:49 GMT -5
Laura, Hmm... You know. I must confess, I have shamelessly and selfishly signed myself up as a beta-reader, partly because then I could have something by Laura to read while LH is on kind of hiatus. I just checked your 'accountability box', 2nd draft of Likely to Fail won't be done until the end of March. WAH... What am I going to do before then? Just curious, where do we find your non-sim related short stories? Are there entries that are already out and about?
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Post by laura on Feb 25, 2011 8:37:55 GMT -5
LOL! Awww, thank you for asking though! I should actually have another LH story ready (or at least I'm planning to) before my LTF draft will be done. Though I was considering sending you guys a couple/few of the first chapters of LTF to start, while I'm finishing off the rest. I don't have any shorts out there available for reading just yet. I have one that's being shopped on literary markets - and that takes FOREVER so that one is kind of lost to the world for now, lol! I'm working on two more for contests this spring, one in March, and another in May. The one in March though (starring Dallas and Lucy, lol!), if that one doesn't win, I'll probably put up as a digital download, because as specific as it is for this contest I'm entering it in, I couldn't imagine it being placed anywhere. I'm glad to see people actually look at my accountability box though, lol! Hopefully that'll keep me accountable
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Post by laura on Mar 14, 2011 17:05:53 GMT -5
It's kind of weird Simming out a scene that's been in my head for MONTHS! It's like, no matter how close I get to "the real thing" it still seems a small bit not right. Don't mind me, lol! Just got my last two pics! *throws confetti* Might have an update up tonight! (That is, if I neglect to finish writing this other thing that I'm not really sure I'll make deadline for anyway... )
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Post by laura on Mar 17, 2011 18:08:14 GMT -5
Just sitting here, thinking about Leila's story, and being baffled by how many different endings it has had, lol! You see, I have these flash-forward kind of visions of what the ending might be as I'm drafting this thing. But then, as I'm actually writing through it, a character will do something so slightly different. A tiny little misstep. And it veers them off that course. Then, that ending I saw like a flash is wiped clean. New ending is born. Until that slight misstep affects another character's path, and again, the ending is wiped clean. And over and over again. Even as recently as the last update, brand new ending. I suppose that since this is the actual ending though, that this one will have to stick. No more flashing-forward, because we're there now. And the best thing, maybe, is that all those endings I thought of first were the most expected ones. And this one is one I never could have come up with until now, after having tossed out all those other endings that I'd guessed first. Maybe that makes for a better ending? One that's a little more original, a little less expected. Something surprising, and different, and maybe even deep? I don't know - I guess we'll see Also, funny enough, I was worried along the way about all the spoilers I thought I'd dropped. But they really don't matter anymore because my ending has changed about four times since then, lol!
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Post by pinkfiend1 on Mar 22, 2011 16:44:03 GMT -5
So I'm still not completly up to date but I just had to say I love this bit. It's from Tethered"A friend that she watches movies with, holds hands with, and kisses goodnight at the door. A friend who drives her home from work, invites her over to dinner with his family, and stays until ten almost every night to "study." And the touching, always touching, her fingertips graze his ankle, or his hand comes to rest on her knee, as if they might die if they weren't constantly tethered by some kind of vital but invisible life force."
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Post by laura on Mar 22, 2011 21:21:57 GMT -5
Awww, the beginnings of Dallas and Lucy's story! Thanks! I'm glad you're enjoying it!
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Post by laura on Mar 25, 2011 12:20:52 GMT -5
Just a heads-up, since I'm using the title Likely to Fail for my novel, I changed Jodie's story in the LH version to Ambitions of Teamwork, so not to conflict with myself Also (and this was said once already, somewhere), I've decided that I don't need to take down any of the stories I've posted on the blog to this point. They will all remain as is. But I did feel a little self-conscious about my gameplay notes in relation to those storylines, so I did have to take those down. I have them all backed up though, so if anyone wanted to see one of them (ummm, not sure why anyone would, lol!), I still have them. (And whoa boy, there was almost 10,000 words of just gameplay notes alone!!!) The only one I think anyone might miss is the "gameplay vs. storytelling" post, but because that included such a long and involved "making of" Jodie and Amelia's story in this LH version, I didn't want to leave that up as is. I may begin work on a new and updated version of something similar though - my revised thoughts on the whole "gameplay vs. storytelling" discussion. Anyway, so that's that! lol! I'm hard at work on Leila's next update, and it's looking like it might be ready around Monday-ish!
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Post by laura on Apr 2, 2011 9:45:08 GMT -5
OMG, I spent a ridiculous amount of time getting the pictures for this next update! Three sessions of about 2 hours in the last few days, then two more sessions of 2 hours last night! Ten freaking hours posing Sims for one update, lol! I am certifiably insane! But I also had some very, VERY precise ideas for how this story looked in my head, and I refused to compromise. I just hope you all like them... and if you don't, then humor me, lol! Now I've got some Photoshopping to do. Update should be posted later tonight.
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Post by sb on Apr 2, 2011 10:24:28 GMT -5
It will be perfect...
I just read something someone did in 2008 with minimal poses and got all wistful about how easy it was then. It is crazy how much time it takes to force the game to produce a vision it was never designed to do. I'm forcing myself to go into the game and try to get shots today, and there are maybe 8 shots, and I know it's going to take me all day long and still won't look the way I want it to look.
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Post by laura on Apr 2, 2011 15:14:12 GMT -5
Oh, I know it! Back at the start of LH, I was cranking out 3-4 updates a week, with 40-60 pictures each. For serious! lol! These days, it's more like one update every 2-3 weeks, with 15-25 pictures in it. But you know, back in the day, it wasn't like I thought my pictures sucked or anything, lol! I mean, I was doing the best I knew how. But I guess at a certain point, we become spoiled on our own standards or something. And we learn new tricks to get the pictures looking exactly how we want them, and then we're used to having pictures exactly how we want them. Then it's harder to please ourselves, and so we try harder, and need to do more to be impressed and not feel like a picture is crap. It's a vicious cycle, lol! Or that's my theory anyway
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Post by lepifera on Apr 2, 2011 19:16:44 GMT -5
ho ho ho....
I have only gone semi-serious about posing for two stories so far, and decided to focus on improving the text part, instead of the illustration part in trying to get the things in my head across.
A picture is worth a thousand words. Not to say I am any good in getting across to the audience with words, yet at least manipulating words on word processor is a little easier than getting the unruly sims to behave for photo sessions! I still need to remain sane and functional for IRL job. LOL
Yay... only a few more hours before Part II. I have at least checked a dozen times to see when it would be up since two weeks ago.
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Post by choco on Apr 3, 2011 2:00:25 GMT -5
With time comes new technology. I'm so grateful for the pose boxes I've found, even if I haven't used them all yet. It does make me feel better to know that even seasoned bloggers and simmer such as yourself still have a bit of trouble.
I do want to give myself a bit of a break since, by blogging and TS2 standards, I came in pretty late in the game. I know you'll do great Laura. I have to go in myself and try out some shots soon too. I can't wait to see the next post, Laura.
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Post by laura on Apr 4, 2011 7:09:16 GMT -5
I posted this to Lepifera in the other thread, but since I don't know how many people read that one, I though I'd post it over here too. I figured since I'll never get to use this song as a soundtrack (and you *know* how I love my soundtracks, lol!), since we're not going there in the blog, I might as well post it up here. This one was particularly inspirational in the later parts of Matt and Leila's 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 4, 2011 17:36:08 GMT -5
I'm picking at Lucy's upcoming story, and wow, this feels a bit like deja vu! (These eighteen year old girls know everything! I know, I used to be one, lol!) I wonder how many of you would advice Lucy to marry Dallas, after having seen what Leila's been through!?!
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