Sea Legs (Updated 09*21*19)
After a little encouragement from other players I've finally decided to "move" my story from another thread to this one. Moves in quotes simply because I'm not moving anything, just copying the posts...
Forum Discussion
@emorrill
I'm glad you were finally able to catch up (sorry about your eyes, though :( )
Re: Shari/Niella - I try to put myself in their shoes. Being adopted, it was fairly easy for me to connect with the lifelong loss that we adoptees sometimes feel and being a mother made it easy for me to draw from that to inspire Shari's feelings.
Re: The resort - Thanks! sounds like you might have recognized the building - it's the regency arcade moderately modified (room and size changes, added floors, etc. and of course I redecorated everything) I've just always thought that building looked far more like a casino than a game arcade. I grew up in game arcades, none of them looked like that. Mostly they were either just some store in the local mall or some dark and grungy slot in a row of brownstones. They never looked like that :lol: HeII, not even Dave and Busters is that fancy lol! It's funny, though, every time I thought I was done I'd save it, play for a bit, then think of something else I wanted to do, go back, futz, rinse repeat lol.
Unfortunately I'm having issues with my windows photo viewer and can now only view screenshots one at a time by opening them in photoshop. I take hundreds and sometimes even thousands of screenshots to create each of my chapters, to see which shots best convey conversations, etc. Opening each image individually one at a time just to cull seems impossibly tedious so I'm hoping to be able to figure out the issue here soon because at least ONE of the moments everyone seems to be waiting for is in the next update, and I'm anxious to post it. Unfortunately this week is going to be crazy crazy. Got a few projects that have quick deadlines and Thursday through Monday we will be doing some construction on our house (did I mention the used cat litter cement my son made? Lord give me strength, and no that is not in vain lolol.) So it might be a bit before the next chapter is posted, which kills me since I have all the pics just sitting there waiting lol!
I'm glad you were finally able to catch up (sorry about your eyes, though :( )
Re: Shari/Niella - I try to put myself in their shoes. Being adopted, it was fairly easy for me to connect with the lifelong loss that we adoptees sometimes feel and being a mother made it easy for me to draw from that to inspire Shari's feelings.
Re: The resort - Thanks! sounds like you might have recognized the building - it's the regency arcade moderately modified (room and size changes, added floors, etc. and of course I redecorated everything) I've just always thought that building looked far more like a casino than a game arcade. I grew up in game arcades, none of them looked like that. Mostly they were either just some store in the local mall or some dark and grungy slot in a row of brownstones. They never looked like that :lol: HeII, not even Dave and Busters is that fancy lol! It's funny, though, every time I thought I was done I'd save it, play for a bit, then think of something else I wanted to do, go back, futz, rinse repeat lol.
Unfortunately I'm having issues with my windows photo viewer and can now only view screenshots one at a time by opening them in photoshop. I take hundreds and sometimes even thousands of screenshots to create each of my chapters, to see which shots best convey conversations, etc. Opening each image individually one at a time just to cull seems impossibly tedious so I'm hoping to be able to figure out the issue here soon because at least ONE of the moments everyone seems to be waiting for is in the next update, and I'm anxious to post it. Unfortunately this week is going to be crazy crazy. Got a few projects that have quick deadlines and Thursday through Monday we will be doing some construction on our house (did I mention the used cat litter cement my son made? Lord give me strength, and no that is not in vain lolol.) So it might be a bit before the next chapter is posted, which kills me since I have all the pics just sitting there waiting lol!
