Sorry it’s been a minute since my last update. After managing to avoid it for more than two years, I finally came down with Covid last week. What a fun way to start my summer vacation! Thankfully, I only had mild cold symptoms for a couple of days and then felt fine. Very grateful for vaccines!
I should have gotten a lot written while I was in isolation, but instead, I decided to download The Sims (4) and start playing that for the first time in at least a decade. Turns out, that game is just as addicting in my thirties as it was in my teens. I started the same way I often did in my teens, too, by creating the BSB and building a mansion for them to live in together, LOL. As a grown woman, I have moved past my teenybopper fantasy of marrying one of them and did not make myself as a Sim this time. Instead, I’ve been putting my various fanfic original characters into the game. Of course, one of the first characters I created was Claire from Broken, with the end goal of having her happily married to Nick. They are just getting to know each other now. She got the stomach flu the other day and gave it to him, so they were both nauseous and throwing up all the time – just like in Broken! LOL I may have to post some screenshots sometime because I also built the Gravel Funeral Home from A Heart That Isn’t Mine in all its twisted glory, and it’s kind of amazing.
Anyway, I didn’t write much while I was obsessively playing The Sims for ten hours a day, but I did manage to keep my daily writing streak alive and have gotten back on track with writing more than a sentence a day the last two days. My streak is up to 140 days now! The last one ended at 148 days, so I’m close to breaking my record. I thought I would be done with this story before I made it to 150 days, but since I have slowed down so much, that’s not going to happen. But I do have an update for you today! Chapter 43 of My Brother’s Keeper is up. I intend to find a better balance between my creative hobbies and get back to more regular updates this summer. Thanks for reading!