Di's Victorian Vexes

I'm not procrastinating today.  Honest.  Ok, maybe I am, but I'm being productive with it, and this bit of procrastination, should hopefully help me with my writing.  You see, what with the rebuild of doom last year, I've spent quite a lot of time, not thinking about my characters, and so now that I'm trying to get on with my story, I'm stumbling slightly at times when it comes to remembering how characters speak or act.  Now Emmi won't really appear in this chapter, but I've been thinking a lot about her look as a teen, and as an adult recently, and that has been helping me to re familiarise myself with her as a character.  Partly for my own reference, and partly because some of you might be interested, I thought I'd jot down my thoughts here.
( Some waffle and pictures on Emmi )

So, I’ve finished playing my rotation, and rather than getting straight on and making my backups, I decided to get everyone’s pictures up to date for the Who’s Who and family tree, so head on over to them to see everyone who has become an adult recently and also a few sims you’ve not met yet. I spent an enjoyable few hours making sims of extended family members for both Sophia and Lauren and Sir Horace, and as is often the case, seeing the sims helped me to cement some of the aspects of their characters in my mind. Have a drabble that came to me this morning concerning one of them.


Title:  Gweneth
Rating: U. 
Spoiler rating: 2/10. 
Summary: Sarah Jane attends a formal ball with Sir Horace.
Notes: The incident with the bishop is entirely fictional, and I've taken a liberty by making it seem that Disraeli and Gladstone swapped in and out of power more than they actually did.
Word Count: 993.

( “Horace, there you are! I knew you would skulking somewhere around here!”  )

Title:  Bragging.
Prompt: Sister-in-law.  (mzyra)
Rating: U. 
Spoiler rating: 8/10. 
Summary: Ezra and Bethany are having tea with Sarah Jane..
Notes: Only a short one this time.  I might do more with this and make it into a scene at some point.  Also fairly high spoiler due to references to something upcoming.
Word Count: 241.


( Surely by now she would have realised that Bethany cared little for titles and the company that Sarah Jane kept these days? )

So, this is the car I was sat behind in traffic today:


( A little bit of talk )

Title:  Images.
Prompt: The oddest place Christopher has ever painted.  (tatdatcm)
Rating: U. 
Spoiler rating:  5/10. 
Summary:  A musing by Christopher.
Notes: I'm putting this as a 5 because it refers to how Donna came to be in my game, but that's no surprise to anyone who has read some of Pen's drabbles, or one of my drabbles from a couple of years ago.
Word Count: 354.


( He had sat on the hot metal, a canvas propped in front of him. )

Title:  The End.
Prompt: Connor and Vicky. (docnerd)
Rating: PG. 
Spoiler rating:  0/10. 
Summary:  Vicky makes an important decision.
Notes:  I was pleased to see this prompt since it allows me to fill in some of the blanks with Vicky's story.  I also think that some of this is stilted, but my brain is a bit fuzzy at the moment, so I'm going to post this as it is.
Word Count: 593.




( Her desire for him was like a physical ache and when he was near, he made her blood sing. )

Title:  Angles.
Prompt: Bowler Hats (biglenny)
Rating: U. 
Spoiler rating:  0/10. 
Summary:  Stuart has a new hat.
Notes:  Just a short fin little thing showing how good the relationship can be between Bertie and Stuart.
Word Count: 385.


( "Sophia insulted it only the once, which is tantamount to gushing praise from her." )

Title:  Future plans.
Prompt:"My future is with you." (smoothiesims.)
Rating: U. 
Spoiler rating:  6/10. 
Summary:  Stuart thinks about the future..
Notes:  I'm not as happy with this as I want to be.  This prompt really speaks to me, but I just can't get the words to flow how I want.  I've rewritten it several times, and there's still something about it that eludes me and I can't pin down.    Anyway, this is only part of a conversation between these two.
Word Count: 191.


( “He is not your future,” )

No, your eyes are not deceiving you, I am updating after nearly a year.



I apologise for the blurry pictures, but it's nearly one in the morning, I have to get up at seven for work, and I can't spend any more time tonight trying to find a new hosting site.

Uploaded to a new host now, which gives better picture quality.  Hopefully this one will be better.

I get the impression that I am once again trying to do too many things at once. I have a pile of mostly complete cc projects, a chapter in the works, a new writing challenge and goodness knows what else, so I thought I’d make a note of the ones I’m actively working on here.

( Things I am doing )