Yeah, Nick shouldn't worry about short letters - I think they're happy just to know he's alive and doing well! Besides, he's still writing, which is one up on various people I knew at sleepaway camp - one wrote all of his letters BEFORE he even left for camp, then just stuck them in envelopes and sent them off once he was there, and another would write a big M on a piece of paper to let her parents know she was alive and safe but not in the mood to write to them. Nick is positively verbose in comparison.
You know, one of these days someone needs to write a story where a woman feeling sick and everyone thinking she's pregnant...isn't her being pregnant. I think we're all guilty of that sin. :P
I love how vain James and Cindy are - well, not vain, but very attached to how their hair looks. It's amusing.
Smart of Nick to amend his will, no matter how much it sucks that he had to. He's right to do so, though, and probably right not to tell Cindy about it - she's very...well, I think she's refusing to think about the possibility that her children might not come home because it freaks her out. Poor her. Of course, then James ends up telling her anyway...I guess she handled it fine, probably by concentrating on how Alice would feel. Definitely poor Alice.
I am highly amused at all the ways you find to tell us where sims are while "not alerting the censors." :P
War does offer opportunities, doesn't it? People learn so much so fast, things are invented and improved very quickly...but the price that's paid for all those improvements is so high, I guess it's a debate on how much it's worth it.
Heh. James is becoming all law-abiding in his old age. :P
As I said before, I'm glad you mentioned the Holocaust (as it was such a major part of the war) but at the same time that you didn't go super in depth with it. It would be hell to film, and even though we don't rate our sims stories...there are topics that do deserve warnings, and showing sims in those conditions would be one of them. Also, I'm glad for Nick's sake that he didn't have to experience it much more first-hand than hearing about it, because it is something that probably affected him for the rest of his life even more than the war alone did - and I'm glad James helped him work through it once he was home.
Nick's reaction to Dotty's beau = highly amusing.
Yay baby! :D
Neither Nick nor Danny ever got to meet Dotty's husband, did they? I suppose that happens in war, but...ouch. I guess all I can say is, at least Nick got to meet his KID.
...I have forgotten a lot of the more distant cousins. Which one is Edith again?
I really do want to see where you take Rosalie, because NO ONE is totally happy with her right now, which...says something about her.
I have to admit I wasn't worried at the telegram: I knew it was Dotty's husband and not Nick. You weren't going to kill Nick less than halfway through the chapter, you weren't going to kill Nick without at least one more letter from him or one more scene with him in battle, and you weren't going to kill Nick without that scene you'd written for...myshuno, I think, happening. It was just too early for it to be Nick, and you'd already stated he basically wasn't in danger.
I am curious about what you're going to do with Dotty's chapter, since you've already covered so much of what she went through in this one. I mean, you kind of had to - anything that happened to her husband was going to affect James and Cindy, and therefore Alice - but now we know that her husband already dies. So where will you go? I'm curious.
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on 2013-06-03 11:53 pm (UTC)Yeah, Nick shouldn't worry about short letters - I think they're happy just to know he's alive and doing well! Besides, he's still writing, which is one up on various people I knew at sleepaway camp - one wrote all of his letters BEFORE he even left for camp, then just stuck them in envelopes and sent them off once he was there, and another would write a big M on a piece of paper to let her parents know she was alive and safe but not in the mood to write to them. Nick is positively verbose in comparison.
You know, one of these days someone needs to write a story where a woman feeling sick and everyone thinking she's pregnant...isn't her being pregnant. I think we're all guilty of that sin. :P
I love how vain James and Cindy are - well, not vain, but very attached to how their hair looks. It's amusing.
Smart of Nick to amend his will, no matter how much it sucks that he had to. He's right to do so, though, and probably right not to tell Cindy about it - she's very...well, I think she's refusing to think about the possibility that her children might not come home because it freaks her out. Poor her. Of course, then James ends up telling her anyway...I guess she handled it fine, probably by concentrating on how Alice would feel. Definitely poor Alice.
I am highly amused at all the ways you find to tell us where sims are while "not alerting the censors." :P
War does offer opportunities, doesn't it? People learn so much so fast, things are invented and improved very quickly...but the price that's paid for all those improvements is so high, I guess it's a debate on how much it's worth it.
Heh. James is becoming all law-abiding in his old age. :P
As I said before, I'm glad you mentioned the Holocaust (as it was such a major part of the war) but at the same time that you didn't go super in depth with it. It would be hell to film, and even though we don't rate our sims stories...there are topics that do deserve warnings, and showing sims in those conditions would be one of them. Also, I'm glad for Nick's sake that he didn't have to experience it much more first-hand than hearing about it, because it is something that probably affected him for the rest of his life even more than the war alone did - and I'm glad James helped him work through it once he was home.
Nick's reaction to Dotty's beau = highly amusing.
Yay baby! :D
Neither Nick nor Danny ever got to meet Dotty's husband, did they? I suppose that happens in war, but...ouch. I guess all I can say is, at least Nick got to meet his KID.
...I have forgotten a lot of the more distant cousins. Which one is Edith again?
I really do want to see where you take Rosalie, because NO ONE is totally happy with her right now, which...says something about her.
I have to admit I wasn't worried at the telegram: I knew it was Dotty's husband and not Nick. You weren't going to kill Nick less than halfway through the chapter, you weren't going to kill Nick without at least one more letter from him or one more scene with him in battle, and you weren't going to kill Nick without that scene you'd written for...myshuno, I think, happening. It was just too early for it to be Nick, and you'd already stated he basically wasn't in danger.
I am curious about what you're going to do with Dotty's chapter, since you've already covered so much of what she went through in this one. I mean, you kind of had to - anything that happened to her husband was going to affect James and Cindy, and therefore Alice - but now we know that her husband already dies. So where will you go? I'm curious.
(To be Continued.)