Epilogue at OoT

Okay, now the Epilogue is up at Out of Touch. This time it's truly finished. :)

Thank you all for reading!

Take care,
Lachesis

Okay, I'm Feeble :)

I know I said Chapter Twenty-Six was the end of Out of Touch, Out of Time. However, after sleeping on it and then looking at it today, I realize there are just some loose ends that I need to tie up. So, I've written an Epilogue. It's short, but I now feel like the story's complete. :)

I'll post a quick notice to let you know when it's up. It shouldn't take terribly long, it's less than 500 words, no more than about three pictures.

Also, at the bottom of the Epilogue, I've included a note explaining how the two timelines differ.

Now, the story is complete. This time I feel comfortable with it. Thank you all for reading.

Take care,
Lachesis

OoT Final Chapter

Chapter Twenty-Six, the final chapter, has been posted! Thank you everyone so incredibly much for going along on this journey with me. I really hope you've enjoyed it and the ending is everything you want it to be. :)

Happy Memorial Day!

Take care,
Lachesis

(Edit 5/26/09 - This is the final chapter, but not exactly the end. I've decided on an Epilogue and I will get that posted as soon as possible.)

Almost Finished ;)

Out of Touch Chapter Twenty-Five posted tonight.

Thank you for reading!

Take care,
Lachesis

One Down, Two to Go

OoT updated with Chapter Twenty-Four.

I seriously think I've set a record the the least amount of pictures I've ever used in an update. :D But really, how many ways can two people sit on a couch staring at a computer? I'm not that creative.

Thank you all for reading!

Take care,
Lachesis

General Mutterings from the Corners of My Mind...

With Out of Touch coming to an end in three chapters, and The Search for Nanda having only a handful of parts left, I've been giving thought to how to handle these updates.

I've decided that the end of stories, if done correctly, should be answering questions and tying up loose ends. Hopefully, if I've done my job, that's precisely what's going to happen with these two stories.

Therefore, I've decided to put SoM on hiatus until Out of Touch ends. This means the next three Sunday updates will be Out of Touch.

Then I will be free to concentrate and end The Search for Nanda on consecutive weeks without breaking the momentum.

As for where other stories are going. I was supposed to start a new Lachesis' Tales with Just Call it Magic. Unfortunately, that story, although started, just doesn't seem to be cooperating, and is lacking the magic at the moment, so it has been shelved. It's a story and character I love, so hopefully, it will talk to me soon.

However, not to worry, I've also been giving thought to the future of Lachesis' Falderal and the simfic50 challenge. When I started it, it was very much my intention to have fun with it. To write little vignettes for each of the prompts. I never intended for there to be storylines. Sebastien follows along with that desire very nicely as each of his stories are actually contained vignettes. Doing the same with the Guardian Angel characters would be quite easy as well, although I do have one more written with Alexander and Melissa that will more or less tie up that storyline.

But, Angels' Cloud is another matter entirely. I've grown quite fond of the story and the characters but it will not fit into the vignette pattern. Beginnings was a desperate attempt to find something, anything that would allow it to fit within the simfic50 guidelines. So, I'm going to move it into the next Lachesis' Tales slot.

For the time being, I'm not sure how it will be updated. Between pose boxes, SoM The Search for Nanda followed immediately by Guardian's Key

(which is completely written - so not to worry) and my newest project which I'm looking forward to, but will keep a secret for just a little while longer, getting AC written completely and then updated will take sometime.

So much to do... but you will not be left without something to read. That I promise.

Take care,
Lachesis

Out of Touch Updates

Chapter Twenty-Three added. Wow, it seems like it took me quite a long time to get this up today. :0

Actually, that's because when I read the chapter through this morning, I realized I'd made so many minor changes along the way that it no longer made sense, and I had to completely rewrite the entire chapter. That's a new one for me, but hopefully, I made a chapter that now flows with the rest instead of seeming weird and out of place.

Thank you everyone for reading!

Take care,
Lachesis

Out of Touch Update

Chapter Twenty-Two has been added today. You may want to note that we've reached July 9. Getting closer all the time to finding out: Will he stay or will he go?

I loved the way this picture turned out, so I turned it into a wallpaper. It's 1440x900.

Thank you everyone for reading!!

Take care,
Lachesis

Happy Easter

I don't usually talk about non-Sim related items here, but something happened to me on Friday that I want to pass along.

In this world where we all think no one really cares any more, where you go to a fast food restaurant and get a sloppily made hamburger and stone-cold fries, a pop that's either too carbonated or too syrupie, or many other things we deal with on a daily basis, I found a man who was willing to go an extra step for me. :D

A couple of weeks ago, I ordered an HP computer for work. When it was shipped and the tracking came out, I saw it was set for FedEx Home Ground delivery. Well, I didn't worry, the local terminal would know we're a business, right? After all, we ship with them all the time. Well, as the day wore on and no delivery arrived, I began to worry, so I called the 800 number. Well, there was nothing they could do, it was the shipper's fault, not theirs and so on and so forth. But she could make a notation that we'd close at noon on Friday and not be there Saturday and hopefully the computer would get delivered Tuesday at the latest and not get shipped back to HP.

After a sleepless night, I went to work Friday and looked in my files finding a local FedEx number. Everyone was wonderfully helpful, and the guy at the home delivery terminal told me he'd try to get the driver to bring it to us before noon. Well, the office guy called back, the driver couldn't make it, but he'd bring it to me personally, after all they were just in the next city over. By 10:00 Friday morning the office worker at FedEx had personally brought me the new computer, saying these things happen - he didn't place the blame on anyone. It's so wonderful to know that there are still some generous, caring people that I just had to pass this on.

Anyway, to the real reason for this post, Out of Touch, Out of Time, Chapter 21 is up. :D

Thank you everyone for reading!
Take care,
Lachesis

OoT Update

Chapter Twenty is PG-13 absolutely and you may not want to read the end of it at work. ;)

Okay, boy I learned three things from this update. :D

1. Now I remember why my updates are generally short. Much, much more manageable. But, this time the writer won out over the illustrator. There's just too much emotion in this update to break it up without losing the real power of the update.

2. I know I've mentioned this somewhere before, but I'll do it again because I've noticed a lot of new visitors since I've joined the SWA. I started writing with an eye toward selling romantic suspense to Silhouette or Harlequin. With that in mind, I became very adept at writing in the series romance genre. Lachesis' Tales are a direct result of that type of writing. In fact, OoT, OoT and whatever else I do here are all taken from ideas I had at the time. So, remember this is a romance, writen very true to that specific genre. :)

3. I'm going to fire my continuity person. I had to go back and redo a shot after I had the whole thing uploaded because she forgot to put the boxes back on the coffee table. :D

Anyway, enjoy.

Thank you all for reading.

Take care,
Lachesis

A Bonus!!

I've received so many kind comments on Out of Touch, Out of Time, I wanted to do something. So, to say Thank You, I've done an extra OoT update this week.

And, I'm so excited to see what you all think about it, I couldn't wait until Sunday. But to be fair, Sunday there'll be the next installment, so you don't even have to wait two weeks to see what happens next.

Anyway, thank you all so much for taking time to read, and I'm so glad you're enjoying it.

Take care,
Lachesis

Okay, Back On Schedule, Kinda

Not really on schedule as this should be a SoM week, but at least I'm back on schedule for posting Sunday's.

Although it's a week late and really short, Chapter Eighteen is up at Out of Touch, Out of Time.

Thank you everyone for reading.

Take care,
Lachesis

Out of Touch New!

Hi Everybody,

Updated Out of Touch today.

My husband would like to thank everyone for their comments on the Gallery, and I would like to show you more pictures of it. :D


Thank you everyone for reading!
Take care,
Lachesis

Ah, Made it! :D

Okay, the problem with weather above normal, sunshine and dry streets in the north at this time of year is it means one thing, the end of cabin fever for at least one day and most definitely a trip to the car wash. So, now you know why I'm late today.

Out of Touch, Out of Time, Chapter Sixteen is up, and I'd love to say it was a cakewalk, but not today, too many pose hacks used for that. But hey, it's still fun to do, even when it's a bit of work. The end result is always satisfying.

Okay, Cheyenne's been sucking on Smilex. As Joker would say, "Go, go, go with a smile." Hehehe.

It's late and I'm punchy.

Thank you everyone for reading!
Take care,
Lachesis

Chapter 15 Up at OoT, OoT

Hi Everybody,

Chapter Fifteen has finally made it online. After a few false starts, and an interruption caused by my Photoshopping some of the pictures for the next simfic50 update (and it's still not ready. Soon, however), it's finished and up.

Here are a couple of pictures of the false start. I really thought Jonas needed an updated look and this was the only one I could find I even remotely liked and would actually appear he'd done something different with the same haircut. Okay, I don't think it looks bad, but it just didn't look like Jonas, so back his hair went to that EA/Humble hair. Oh, the Humble hair does look Victorian, I guess and I've look at Jonas with it for so long, nothing else seems right. :p

Although, if you guys like this hair, I'll change it. :D Sorry, these seem to be the best pictures I have of him with it.

Thank you everyone for reading!

Take care,
Lachesis

Today's Update

Out of Touch, Out of Time, Chapter Fourteen update today!

A piece of Trivia, the spot above, where Jonas is digging is the same spot he was standing when he first heard the noise prior to Cheyenne landing in his time. :)

I'm off, succumbing to the pull of the simfic50 prompt: Angel. (Okay, that was just to tease those following my simfic50 site.)

Thank you everyone for reading!
Take care,
Lachesis

Finally...

Now that the gingerbread cookies are finally baked and in the tin...

Out of Touch, Out of Time, Chapter Thirteen has finally been posted.


Have a Safe and Happy New Year!

Oh, btw, eventually I'll actually decide on how I want this blog to look. Really. :D

Thank you everyone for reading.
Take care,
Lachesis

I'm Back Bringing a Tale with Me

Out of Touch, Out of Time is updated with Chapter Twelve.

If you're all wondering, I swear, I'm done with the beach. Okay, this is a learning process and what I learned here is what may be good on paper with no pictures does not necessarily make it good when pictures are added. No matter how much I tried to vary it, it was just two people talking on the beach, and that's exactly what it looked like. But I needed to get the information out, and this was a good time to do it.

Oh well, lesson learned: vary the location. ;)

Thank you everyone for reading!

Take care,
Lachesis

OoT, OoT Updates (As usual ;D)

Wow, I was really not sure I was going to make this update. In fact, it's a bit early because I didn't have it done over the weekend as I usually do. So I've posted it as soon as I completed it.

I'm a little worried about SoM, however. I don't have the next update done, I don't even have the set built yet. Yikes. Hopefully I'll get it for Friday as usual. Things are just not progressing as well as I'd like this week.

Sometimes I feel like the Sims got the joke and I missed out on it. :D


Happy Thanksgiving for those in the U.S.!

Thank you for reading!
Take care,
Lachesis

The Littlest Things Can Baffle Me

Okay, I admit it, I don't know what a northern beach looks like, I don't go to the beach. I've never gotten over my aversion to the one near where I live since a friend in high school (in the 70's) had a cut get severely infected after swimming at our local beach. I understand the area is better these days, but things learned young stick.

So, when I decided to do the scene that will cover the next few chapters, I had an almost impossible time just getting started because I needed a beach. I usually, with a few exceptions, build my own buildings and lots in order to get the look I want. So after looking at the empty lot, bulldozing it and putting it back endlessly, I gave up and checked the web for a lot I could download. I admit, I didn't scour the web, but where I did look seemed to only have tropical lots available. We don't have palm trees in the north. :P

Finally, I looked at some pictures of beaches in northern states and decided, simple and sweet. So, that's what I did, simple and sweet, and it worked out fine; and Chapter 10 was added to Out of Touch, Out of Time on time (much to my relief.)

Thank you everyone for reading!

Take care,
Lachesis
(Just back from getting Mansion & Garden SP and picked up the new Nickelback while I was there :D)