The Bookacy Family Alphabet Journal

So I did decide to sign up for SimStoCreMo. It seems I'll be having some time in my hands, so I wanted to give it a shot. After all, all work I get done towards the goal is progress, and progress is good.

Quoted from my sign-up:

My goal is to finish chapter 39 of the Bookacies. It's currently 70 slides written, and *should* be all shot for all I know. I don't know how long it'll end up being, but knowing my writing style, I estimate it'll be at least 50 more slides, probably more than that.

Bonus goal: if I'm feeling super productive and finish my goal early (not that likely, but just in case), my bonus goal is chapter 40. It's a recap chapter, which has the few necessary glue scenes shot but nothing written. The main task is to dig through, like, 6,5 years worth of pictures and finding the relevant ones, plus writing. Likely somewhere between 100 and 200 slides.

So, starting stats as of today, March 1st:

Bookacy chapter 39: all shot, 70 slides written
Bonus:
Bookacy chapter 40: all shot, 0 slides written

Fingers crossed this'll be a productive month!

Oh, and if you feel like joining in, but haven't yet signed up, hurry up and do so! Good luck, everyone!

So... It's 2014, then. Happy this year, all! I hope it's started well for you.

For me, 2013 didn't turn out to be all that great, here's hoping that 2014 will be better. In real life matters, I don't tend to make resolutions really, since I'd feel bad if they were something serious and I ended up breaking them. If that makes any sense. But, in sims, I like to state a few goals, so I have something to aim for. So, what were my goals for 2013?

( 2013 )

So, all in all, not terrible considering real life being what it's been. But enough about last year, how about this year?

( 2014 )

I think that's enough for this year, we'll see how well I will fare. Now, maybe I should go and get a head start. :) Once again, happy this year!

First of all:


Happy whichever holiday you may be celebrating, and if none, have a good time regardless! I'm going to be silent for a bit myself, spending time with my parents. But after that, I'll have a bit time off, perhaps for simming.

( Picspams this way )

Tomorrow's a busy day, so just a half an hour early in my time: Happy Birthday, Jenn! I hope it's a great day!

So maybe I should show some outtakes and babble on about the first actual chapter of the apocalypse. Alright, here goes. Obviously, spoilery if you haven't read chapter 1.

( Pictures and babble under the cut )

It's been a while, hasn't it? Well, real life has been throwing me around this year some, as you probably know. But in the end, I still managed to pull an update together. Without further ado, here it is: Villains or heroes?, chapter one!



Again, bad guys use bad words occasionally, but shouldn't be extreme. Both Slideshare and Scribd versions available, whichever works best for you (to me, the picture quality on Scribd seems somewhat better). I hope you enjoy!

Look, I made a thing!

(Chapter, what chapter? *shifty*)



The Sim Randomizer, download at MTS

So this is the procastrination project I've been mentioning, now it's done and finished and up for grabs! If anyone feels like making any random sims or picking random hobbies or so, well, it's a tool for you. I know there are a few aspiration randomizers and such around (mine is based on Phaenoh's, uploaded with permission), but this should be a bit different and fairly versatile. Just thought to advertize in case anyone might find it useful. :)

Real life has been a bit exhausting lately, I haven't had much energy in the evenings, but at least I finally got this finished. Maybe one of these days I could actually have a look at that chapter of mine... Or something.

I've been kinda quiet lately again. There's real life and job hunting; I've mentioned I'm expected to graduate this year and basically, that will bring my current employment to an end. So I just have to hope I find something. I keep telling myself that in this sense it's a good thing I studied CS, even if I don't always love it at least there are jobs. I try not to panic too much.

Anyway, the latest real life development seems to be that I caught the fresher's flu. Great. And I'm no longer much in direct contact with the new students, but the week they show up, bang, Katri gets the flu. So here I am, sitting at home half-bored, half-too-sleepy-to-do-much, when I should be fixing my thesis and would want to work on my sims projects. Oh well.

Also, my *counts* 6th legaversary is next week. I knew all along that having a Bookacy update ready then would not be feasible, but I was thinking maybe an apocalypse update would be nice. But if things keep going the way they have lately, that doesn't look too good either. Actually, I'm almost done with the writing, I just need to set some motivations straight in my head and write maybe one scene or so, and then I'm missing the plotty pictures. But getting those seems to be a bit of a longer process this time. *sigh* Eventually, eventually...

So such. I'm not dead, just apparently having the flu - I blame that for the incoherent post. Now maybe for another nap? Naps are good.

This was a very hard one for me. First to figure out what to write about with such a vague prompt (and my last remaining one is "1000 words or less", oh man...), then to actually do it. Future tense isn't very natural to me, it seems, and in fact I had to allow for a couple of present tense verbs that refer to the future to avoid blatant overuse of "will". (Actually, there is still a blatant overuse of it, and it doesn't feel entirely fluent to me.) I could have written much longer about this conversation, but I had to leave out things that would necessarily have been in the wrong tense.

Anyway, what do you do when you need to write about the future but don't want to spoil it for the audience? You just go far enough in the past. So this one is canon Alphabetia, from the times of generation A, when the founders were still alive.

( The dark future )

... I have black on white that I have a rough idea of how I think the apocalypse will end. And *cough* actually, the legacy, at that.

Kind of crazy, but I've had these ideas in my head for probably a better part of a year. I had an idea for the legacy earlier, but since I started the apocalypse, I got a new one, and I think in at least some respects better. Today, I sat down and sketched it all in an OO text document. It'll be interesting to see in what ways it'll change along the way.

Currently I especially like the way the apocalypse would end. There's a couple things that kind of bother me about the potential legacy ending, but as a general idea, I like that too.

So now I know the guidelines for what I will be doing from the retirement home then. Perhaps I should get back to what I think I should be doing now, writing and shooting for the apocalypse chapter. :P To be fair, though, I needed to sketch out the direction I want the apocalypse to take before I could know what to put in the chapter. Now we'll see if that helps.