Helloooo there, everyone!

It’s been a while since I’ve done an update. I wanted to point out a couple things and let you know what’s been happening.

As you have certainly noticed, I’ve been publishing pretty regular updates for Forever in Time. Inspiration has been very good to me lately, so I take full advantage of that as often as I can. There are some things I want to point out in terms of the story. Some of you may remember that when I moved the story here to WordPress from Blogger, this gave me the opportunity to do some rewriting and revamping to correct some parts I felt needed some reworking. The story started out as a legacy, but as I was moving, I realized this wasn’t the format I wanted. Without giving away spoilers, I’ll just say that a large cast was added thanks to what happened in game. Because of that, it’s hard to give everyone adequate screen time within a legacy format. I, then, decided to turn it into more of a soap opera format with each chapter focusing on one character, a couple, or set of characters. I’m loving how it’s going, and I think we get to know all the cast in a much better, deeper way.

There are some of you that are familiar with events of the story, which, on Blogger, is further along than my revisions. I’m keeping many of the main events in the revisions, but I am reworking it to make for, hopefully, a more rounded reading experience. With that said, let me point out to those of you who were reading it on Blogger that the last 15 chapters or so have been completely rewritten. The plot is pretty much the same, but the writing has been totally redone. Certain characters have been written differently, and things have been added here that weren’t in the original story on Blogger. I would recommend, for those of you who were reading on Blogger, to please consider looking at this reworked version because I think (and hope) you will find it much improved over the original.

I’m also considering adding some posts from time to time with some Q&A in terms of discussing the story. I get some wonderful comments, and I definitely appreciate all the likes, comments, and support. I just thought that maybe this would be a nice way of having us all interact a bit more. What I’m thinking of doing in the posts is putting up some discussion questions, which readers can answer in the comment section. If you have questions for me, naturally, I would reply. I don’t know how well it would work in a format like this, but we can give it a try if there is interest. Please let me know if it’s something you’d like to see and how often you’d like it to happen.

I have also started a “Getting to Know You” series where characters answer some questions put to them. This series will definitely be continuing. Again, I was thinking about reader participation. I could add a post asking which character you would like to see featured next and if you had any questions you would like to see that character answer. I’ve already done Liam Kelly, but we can always go back to revisit him if you have questions for him that wasn’t on the original list. As you know, there are many, many different characters to interview. So, let me know if you have a preference on who should be interviewed next and if you have any questions for the character that I can add to the list of interview questions.

My Sims’ Pen Pal Letters (The Pen Pal Project) will definitely continue. I’m sorry I’ve gotten away from that as of late, but it will be returning. I do currently have Sims who owe letters. If anyone has Sims who would like to be pen pals with any of mine, please do let me know. 🙂

Another addition I am working on is a credits page. I use many, many poses and have a lot of CC in my game. I do not make any of this myself, but there are a myriad of extremely talented creators who do and are willing to share it with us. I believe in giving credit where credit is due. The page is a major undertaking because there’s so much to include, and I’m always afraid I will forget someone. Therefore, it will probably always be something that’s always under construction. 😀 It can also be frustrating because a good deal of the Sims 3 creators have taken down their sites and are no longer creating for Sims 3, which is the game I use for my stories. I will do what I can with it though.

My Diary of Sims series will also be continuing. It started off as being Sims unrelated to my stories that I play in my personal saves. However, if any of you would like to see a diary/journal entry from a story character, that can crtainly be arranged. it would be a nice addition in seeing into a character’s head that we may not get to see in the actual story. I can even do this on my SimLit Legacy Stories by Sharon site with any characters that appear there. Please let me know if this is of interest to you and which character you’d like to see make one of more diary/journal entries.

I have a couple more stories in the works that I’m planning, which will appear on this blog. I have a lot of irons in the fire with this site as well as my SimLit Legacy Stories by Sharon site, but ideas are always rattling around in my head. 😀 There are so many things I want to see come to fruition. Please continue following both of my blogs for story updates and new additions.

I hope you all are having a SimTastic weekend! 🙂

Sharon (aka, Sweet Nightingale)