We're still surrounded by snow here in Central New York, but the temperature right now is 54 degrees, and it's only going to get warmer, so that stuff has a very limited life span. This is such an unusual spring for us. I keep thinking back to when I first moved to New York from Virginia, 13 years ago next week. When I got here, the daffodils were up and blooming all pretty. Right now the daffodils that had started to come up before this nor'easter are buried in heavy, wet snow. I hope they still bloom once this stuff is gone.
Since I first mentioned the Sim story that I was writing on here, I've posted two more chapters, and I'm very happy to say that they are being very well received. I'm getting a lot of great comments on them, which makes me very happy. I hope they will continue to gain an audience as I write more chapters. I'm having fun with this whole thing, both with playing the game with the idea of writing it out in mind and in doing the actual writing. It's a very satisfying process, creatively.
I used to want to be a writer. It's the only thing I can ever remember wanting to do when I was a kid. I wrote short stories all the time, and remember making my friends laugh when I read the stories to them. Even when I got out of school and started my adult life, I still used to start (and not finish) story after story. Somehow in the time since then I've lost that sort of focused creative drive. I spend my time now watching TV or playing the Sims or watching movies or hanging out with J or my friends. I'm not sure why that drive went away. The odds of me ever writing anything now and getting it published are extremely low, but then, I guess that's why I'm writing in here, and now why I'm writing the Sims stories. These two mediums provide me with a way to do some writing, and get feedback from the people who stop in to read.
It's a very satisfying thing.
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It's so odd that your Spring is so cold and ours is so unusually warm. It's in the early 20's here and at this time of year it's usually around 12-14 in the daytime.
Glad your Sims stories are getting good comments :).
Hopefully the weather over there gets back to it's regular self so that you can enjoy spring and not be stuck in winter purgatory.
By the way, love the sims story your writing! I'm looking forward to reading the updates to the story.
Hi guys! Thanks for the comments, and Cathy - I'm glad you're reading and enjoying my Sims stories! I wasn't sure if anyone who reads my blog would actually read the stories, but I thought that since a couple of you are Sims players, that you might. And you did, so yay! Thanks for that. I have three chapters up now, in case you missed the second two. Let me know if you need the links - I'll send them to you.
And the weather is much warmer now. It's in the 70s today! Which is much better than last week's cold and snow.
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