This has been going on for a couple weeks on
Tumblr already, but I wanted to explain a little here, too, before we dive in.
So, it’s not supposed to be a secret that I’m doing a novel version of this story, too. It won’t differ from the blog version. It will be just slightly beefier and without the sims pictures, of course. (But, man, if I could do drawings! Or if I had money to hire an illustrator... I’m not ruling that out, even though it would be a terrible financial decision, lol!)
Anyway, so I’ve been revising the chapters that would make up book 1, and there are some new scenes I’ve written that never got to be part of this blog story. They’re such good additions! And there are also some things that were part of old gameplay stories that I’ve turned into real narrative scenes, that I want to expand and take new pictures for.
So, I really really do want to move forward into Colette’s chapter #5.3, like we were supposed to, but I also want to freshen up these beginning chapters, too.
In my head, I’m like: 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 can't 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 pretty 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 12,000 words (I’m so so sorry! I promise they’re good ones? 😬😬😬) and will be split into 4 chapters of 4-6 parts each.
And then we’ll hop straight back to Colette in #5.3.
So, current readers will experience this as a prequel story, but after it’s all done, I will backdate the posts to the beginning and it will also serve as a new beginning for new readers.
