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Writers' Lounge - For All Games!
My friend @friendsfan367 suggested, " i think it would be cool to have like a writer lounge where new writers like me could chat with old writers like you. opps i meant experinced." So, here we have it! The Writers' Lounge, where new writers can chat with old writers like me! This is a place to talk about all aspects of your writing! Every Simming and writing question is welcome, and everyone is invited to chime in with writerly suggestions, responses, jokes, feedback, gripes, comments, and conundrums. Even though we're located in the Sims 4 area, writers of stories involving all Sims games are welcome! We have people who write stories using Sims 2, Sims 3, and Sims 4 games--and everyone is appreciated and included! You'll find that we're really welcoming, and we're really cool, and this thread is totally awesome. And we have a few common sense guidelines to help keep it that way. (We've learned from experience! :wink: ) Treat each other with kindness, acceptance, appreciation, and respect. Follow the EA Forum Guidelines. Remember that this is a public forum, meaning that anybody anywhere with Internet access can read what you write. If you're a youngster, don't write anything you wouldn't want your mom to read. If you're an adult, don't write anything you wouldn't want your kid or niece or nephew to read. Please don't feel bad if we pop in for gentle reminders if things get really OT or if we start to veer from the forum guidelines. We still love you! I'll keep the coffee and tea pots full--you bring your favorite mug, and let's kick back and chat about writing! Daily Conversations Join us for daily conversations! We've got themed conversations Monday - Sunday. Of course, you can talk about other things, too! But if you're looking for a specific topic, swing by and join us! https://ts4fanfic.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/sunday22.png https://ts4fanfic.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/monday.png https://ts4fanfic.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/tuesday.png https://ts4fanfic.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/wednesday.png https://ts4fanfic.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/thursday.png https://ts4fanfic.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/friday.png https://ts4fanfic.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/saturday.png Writer/Reader Community Threads You might also enjoy these threads: Freezer Bunny Book Club | Short Story Writing Challenges How Do I Get Started Writing? If you have questions about writing SimLit, please see the following guide, written and compiled by @JulyVee94. A Quick Guide to SimLit Directory of Active Members Here's a listing of the blogs/threads of the regulars here. If you'd like to have your blog or thread listed here, please let @friendsfan367 or me (CathyTea) know. I'm kinda busy, so it might take me a little while to get you listed, but I definitely will list your story here, if you request it! And... Happy Reading! :smiley: Note: Some of these stories may contain adult subject matter. Please read at your discretion. Acarb90 - Metro - A City Story | Thirty: Looking to the future... AdamsEve1231 - Kassiopeia Fullbright Story Series | Colt Family Traitacy | From Riverview, With Love | La Vita Bella | Livin' A Simmin' Life | Meanwhile in Another Part of Town | Other Stories | Simblr | Darkness May Dream AkramA - Castellon Legacy aroseinbloom - A Rose In Bloom Sims Arrowleaf - The Landon Legacy BBQPenguinWings Trish - A Penguin's Adventure in Simming BlackUndecimber - Winter's Alchemy Bugsie2016 - Burton Legacy | Life's Lessons | What Are We Really Made Of? |People of the Light Tribe CathyTea - CathyTea's SimLit Anthology cecerose0208 - Dreams & Drama Blog on Wordpress/ CharmingMaruska - Truly Curly's Disney Legacy Chrinnie - The Alvarez Chronicles CitizenErased - Ashes to Ashes | Dust to Dust *Completed | Paranormal Neighborhood cshaner - Simfluence: Where Sims Influence the Story cully_c - Short Stories | Simmillionaire | Wonder Child Darra84 - My Incredible Adventure in the Sims 4 World DeafSimmer - Deafsimmer's Sims 4 Stories DeiraShadeweaver - The Shadowden (Tumblr) | Deira Plays Sims (Wordpress) divanthesimmer - Divan, the Simmer's SimLit Blog Dollyllama108 - Catastrophe Theory EiraRose - Song of the Nightingale eXokamikaze - ninjapigsims fabtiffsim - The Ojas Tribe Faoiltearna - Faoiltearna Sims Firande - Black Sheep friendsfan367 - friendsfan36 gameplay9098 - Nerdsimmer's Blog GhostlyPix - Keep Moving Forward iheartdinosx3 - The Belle Legacy ilovebunnys65 - The Watergates InfraGreen - No Stars Over Uptown JellySimwich - Life Is Jes2G - Jes2G Stories JoieWilder - The Thoreau Legacy | Building Us and The More the Wilder JulyVee - Julyvee's Sims Stories | Vee is for Vortex Karilan - Living with Grace Katrinasforest - Clanbuilding for Dummies Kurdaneva - The Red Hourglass | The Dark Tale of C.hana Hale Laura_Jones - The Candle Lit Chronicles LegacySims2017 - Legacy Sims lisabee2 - Simsational lone_cat - Lost in a Magic Realm LostInReverie - From the Hart lovesstorms - Lovesstorms Stories Lynwood - Gieke Legacy | Wishing Upon a Star 2.0 | Operation: Pollinate Newcrest! LyricSimz15 - Eclipse's Simlit Stories Madame Lee - Charming Disney Legacy | Disney Sims Neighborhood Maladi777 - The Heffner Legacy MamaSimMacho - As the Plumbob Turns mamasquirrel - Simetics Simedy mastressalita - Sim Stories MedleyMisty - In the Valley of the Sun Meggles - MeggSims MonaSolstraale - A Turtle's Journey | Tusnelda and Trix MrsRacooney - Daughters of the Warrioress MunterBacon - Ironbound and My Life as a Zombie Nerdfashion - Tales of My Sims OJenn - Memoir Me | Memoir Me Thread orangeplumbob - Second Chances peatock - Velasco Legacy Pegasus - makplays PinotGrigio - Sims and Wine - The Circle PitlordMaggie - Greenwood Estate pronterus - Undead with Benefits ra3rei - Raerei's Fortress Rainydayz179 - Stormy Dayz Gamez rednenemom - The Racket-Rotter Chronicles RipuAncestor - The Fey of Life RoryGilmore34 - Legacies of the Sims RosemaryMariee - Noble Doubt and Other Stories Shadami - Adventures through SimLit Shadyboop - Beast SimmerSteffie - Priest Legacy simscognito - Friends of Foes Simslover163 - Sims Nation, Sims World, All Things Sims Sonniejj - Fiore Legacy Challenge Sourocha - The Life of the Majolentes squirrelwithacup - Nightshade StoriedStorm - The Family Black SunnyShay - Hella Good | Love Shot SummerFalls - SummerFalls Stories supernatural103 - Isaac Sisters swcheppes - Sim-ply Awesome sweetnightingale - Forever In Time | Another World | Colors of Loving | As Tears Go By | Sweet Nightingale's Sims | SimLit Legacies by Sharon TaraIris94 - Bachelorette Legacy TheAemaSimming - McGinnis Legacy TheMummyof4 - Vicarious Living ThePlumbob - The Bloomer Legacy TheYayToast - Rainbow Sundae Thymeless - Can You Hear the Violins? | Centauri Legacy Twiggy - Twiggy's Sims Adventures UniquePuggle - Wallingsford Historical Legacy VanityHigh - VanityHigh Sim Stories Wasting_Night - SimSacious Magazine xMike_BX - Murder Valley Sims Birthday Registry If your name is not on this list, and you'd like to be included (so that you can sample some of SummerFalls' awesome happiness birthday cupcakes on YOUR birthday), please PM CathyTea January 26th - Jes2G January 27th - eXokamikaze February 4th - The Sims! Februay 20th - Sourocha March 5th - Munterbacon March 12th - Swcheppes March 21st - ra3rei March 22nd - aroseinbloom April 17th - Pinmat135 April 18th - TheAemaSimming April 19th - InfraGreen April 23rd - Maladi777 April 26th - rednenemon May 12th - Pegasus143 May 19th -Karilan June 20th - madamelee June 27th - Bugsie2016 June 29th - SimsLover163 July 3rd - ilovebunnys65 July 7th - kurdaneva July 23rd - CathyTea July 26th - Shadami August 15th - For_Eorzea August 17th - friendsfan367 August 23rd - ny275 August 29th - Lisabee2 September 1 - PitlordMaggie September 14th - Shadyboop September 16th - Pronterus and divanthesimmer September 19th - lovesstorms September 28th - VanityHigh Sept 29th - Anua92 October 2nd - SilverDaybreak October 25th - DebraF63 October 26th - Meggles November 4th - LegacySims2017 November 10th - Simscognito November 26th - Faoiltearna November 29th - SimTresa December 9th - AdamsEve1231 December 15th - LyricSimz15 December 17th - StoriedStorm, MedleyMisty, and Acarb90 December 22nd - nerdfashion December 29th - BlackUndecimber
The grand sequel to: "The first one to page 100 wins!"
One forum later, and this game is still in motion! No longer are we going to just a new page after hitting a record of Page 2207. We're now going for the first to be the 75000th poster! The same rule applies like the original. No double posting and please keep it PG. Let the games begin once more!
Never Have I Ever... [GAME]
Hi hi everyone! So this discussion is a game called "Never Have I Ever" and I'm sure most of you know how to play it but if not, here's an example: Person 1: Never have I ever ridden a horse. Person 2: I have. Never have I ever... And so on. Basically, I'll start, and the person below me would say if they have or haven't done what I said. They would then continue saying "Never have I ever..." the only thing is, if you are saying the nhie statement, it has to be something you've NEVER done. Okay, I'll start. :) Never have I ever skipped school.Hello! Come and introduce yourself!
Hello! Welcome to the Forums! This thread is for new and old simmers to come and introduce themselves, and say a little bit about themselves. We can get to know each other, and welcome simmers to the forums. I look forward to meeting you all, and hearing a little bit about you. Happy simming to everyone!
Play and Share continued
Since we seem to have missed posts in the other thread, I am starting this one. There is no point fighting with deleted post skips on a continual basis. Anyone who would like to share what you are doing with your game and/or your current may join this thread. Also, if you are new to the sims and have questions re: game play or the forums, I hope you will ask them here. Please be kind and friendly to all posters. I request that we follow the forum rules please. Thank-you!The Going Solo Challenge (main) Updated to include TS4
This isn't your average legacy challenge. The goal is to achieve ALL LTWs and reach the top of ALL possible careers/professions without repeating any. You can only have ONE child per generation. The Rules Going Solo TS3 Going Solo TS4 Follow us on Twitter @TS_Going_Solo Helpful Links Full list of Jobs (S3) or HERE Full list of lifetime wishes (S3) Aspiration List (S4) Career List (S4) Going Solo checklist to help track your progress Family Echo-This is a valuable tool if you like to keep track of extended family CC magic for those of you that use custom content in your game Active Going Solo Stories - A Race Against Time by Piazzagirl1015 - As Life Goes by Jazen - In Another Life by MischiefTheKitten -Starbound by MischiefTheKitten -Seidhkona by French_Vanilla13 -Elvira Slayer, The True Story by ELIROC -The Island by ELIROC -Life or Something Like It by jeapos88 -Try Everything - A Going Solo Challenge by KaytayRoall - A Solo legacy with a twist-by SOnet104 - Going Solo Challenge by LittleMinxUndr - Jungle Drums by LittleMinUndr - Strictly Solo by Piazzagirl1015 Iron Man Going Solo Challengers Vuneca's Iron Man Attempt The Iron Woman Challenge by Petunia302007 AKA Simfulicious One Woman Show by Jazen I Am Every Woman by Piazzagirl On Hiatus - Going Solo By Vuneca - Aurora Borealis by HollyhocksFluff - The Burnbright Solo, Prettyacy, and Alphabet challenge by Shafer249 -Story of Rosaline by Shafer249 - The Pham Family Going Solo Challenge by carlimact -Pok Family TS4 Going Solo by Carlimact - Solace of Elysium by NewToTheSims AKA LateKnightSimmer Discontinued but still worth reading - Going Solo: The Wasimton, by LittleMinxUndr - Majestyk's Going Solo... Again, by Majestyk - Solo Legacy Challenge: The Vanderburgs, by SuperM1tch - Lonely but not Alone A Going Solo Challenge by octojenn - Nix Solo Challenge, by Nancy01905 - Nancy Edmondson Solo The Sims 4, by Nancy01905 - Here without you by BekahSue - Follow your Dreams by Seera1024 - Safekeeping by octojenn If you like those stories, try these: -A Clockwork Heart by French_Vanilla13 -Fatima's Bachelorette Challenge by Vuneca -Just Simming Along (a collection of stories) by Jazen -Kiss of a Vampire by Jazen -Romance on the Horizon by Piazzagirl1015 -Stories of Mischief (a collection of stories) by MischiefTheKitten -Carlimact Simlings (a collection of stories) by Carlimact -The Love Ship by Sweetinightingale -Piazzagirl's Sim and Challenges by Piazzagirl1015 -Echoes of Eternity by NewToTheSims AKA LateKnightSimmer - First To Last by octojenn -The Proposal: A Bachelor Challenge by NewToTheSims AKA LateKnightSimmer -Diary of a Drifter-A Sims 4 Drifter Challenge by Piazzagirl1015 Other goodies YouTube Solo Challenge By Nancy01905 Here is the image resizer that makes posting in these forums so much better! LittleMinxUndr wrote: I use this tool: Imageresizer from Codeplex.com It's a totally free utility under GNU-lisence. It works flawlessly under win8 too. It resizes single pictures to batches of well over a hundred at once. I routiniously resize well over 100 screenshots in under 5 seconds with it. Image Resizer is fast, makes your screens extremely light-weight which is totally what you want for what you're doing and you have almost no fidelity-loss. for the gamebooster a quick registration is needed, but personal details are not asked. Here's the linkage: Gamebooster *****Hey girls, A quick note to inform you all that the image resizer that I use has been greatly updated and has moved hosts. The tool can now freely be had from this link: http://www.bricelam.net/ImageResizer/ -Minx If you choose to do this challenge I would LOVE to follow your story. Thanks for stopping by my thread, hope you enjoy the challenge should you attempt it. Happy Simming :)Sim Gurus on Twitter
I know some of the forum members don't have a Twitter account or regularly keep up with Twitter so I thought it would be a good idea to have a thread where we could keep up with and discuss the guru tweets. Please let's not make this about how you think they should post everything here. That is not the purpose of this thread and will be considered derailment and reported. Please feel free to start a thread in Feedback if you feel that way. :) Starting with: https://twitter.com/SimGuruKate/status/1013824179592810498
The Art of Sims Storytelling
Hi guys! @CathyTea and I were talking, and we thought we'd try making a thread that would be focused solely on writing, especially Sims story writing. The writers' lounge thread is great for being a lounge, but a separate space for more in-depth discussions with a slower pace and less immediate burying of posts could be good too. :) I'm not good at making lists and rules, but here are some suggestions for things to talk about here: the process of writing Sims stories the Sims story community how Sims literature fits into the greater literature community how we use the game as a medium for storytelling the imagery and themes in our work, and also possibly how they are influenced by the game what it means to be a reader of Sims literature the expectations or lack thereof that we have of Sims stories the history of Sims storytelling and all the genres and their relationships to each other and really just anything else you can think of that has to do with writing and reading and community and art and literature I want to emphasize that this thread is open to everyone, no matter what and how you write. I've learned in the last few years that sometimes stuff like this can intimidate people, but we are definitely not trying to be elitist or pretentious or intimidating or anything here. Everyone is welcome, and everyone, from people who just read Sims stories to people who write commentary legacies to people who write hardcore Simlit, has something to contribute. I hope we have fun here! :)
A game of The simmer below me (2nd edition)
I noticed the old simmer below me was from 2009 so I'm starting a new one So here's how it works I will ask a yes/no or true/false question beginning with The Simmer Below Me or TSBM And the person below will answer then ask a new question and so on The simmer Below me likes broccoli This thread was originally created by @Narcissa: https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/125142/lets-all-play-a-good-ol-game-of-the-simmer-below-me#latestThe gift of sharing together each day of the year
Hello. :) This thread is for anyone who may like to post each day about something that has happened in their lives that day or the previous day. It may be a happy experience, or an encouraging thing that happened, or a sadder experience and you would like to share and find support here with simming friends. Also, if you would like to instead post a nice photo or poem or encouraging quote or any thing nice that you have seen , it would be a delight to see it. :) Everyone is very welcome to post in this thread! :) I also just wanted to let you know about a thread that I have set up in another section of the forums. It is called. " We care! Supporting Simmers going through hard times" The link to it is http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/799015/we-care-supporting-simmers-going-through-hard-times We are here to support you.
How Many Plan on Buying Paralives vs TS5?
Now that Paralives is an actual real thing people won't have to deny it anymore (Steam has a whole page dedicated to it) will you buy it and or continue to wait on TS5's possible MMO? After reading all the job openings for Maxis new AAA game, it's very possible (looking like it's true) that TS5 will probably be multiplayer in some form or fashion..will you jump ship with Maxis?
An Important Update on the Future of These Forums
Sul Sul Simmers, We have an important announcement to share regarding the future of The Sims Forums. Over the past 14 years we’ve been lucky enough to share this forum destination with you as a place to discuss The Sims across various titles, share your screenshots, feedback, guides, and most importantly, tell your stories. These forums are showing their age, and are no longer representative of the community experience we wish to share with you. After careful consideration, we have decided to close The Sims Forums by July 2024 and replace it with a new forums site - to be called EA forums - going live this July. Rest assured, select content from The Sims Forums will be carried over to this new site and the migration criteria for the content can be found below. This move aims to provide you with a more seamless and engaging environment to connect, share, and collaborate with fellow players, and the EA Community team. I speak for the team when I share that we all look forward to continuing our relationship together on our new site in July. Please read more below about timing and next steps to take when posting to the forums. -@EA_Cade What’s Happening Next The Sims Forums will remain open to you until July 2024 when EA forums launches. Please make note of the following dates and instructions from now until we’re live on the new site: Any content posted on The Sims Forums after March 12, 2024 will NOT be migrated over to the new EA forums. We’ll migrate content posted between October 18, 2022 and March 12, 2024 in addition to select content from the nominations thread mentioned below. We will make every effort to ensure that data will port over. If you’ve posted on The Sims Forums and you want to ensure your content is available on the new EA forums site, please follow the steps below. If you have an AHQ account, you will be able to use it on EA forums when the new site goes live. All badges and ranks from The Sims Forums will not be ported over to the new forum site. Participants with an AHQ account will continue to retain AHQ stats. We will however be looking to implement ways to highlight your contributions from The Sims Forums. In July 2024, The Sims Forums will be permanently closed and will no longer be accessible. Anyone trying to access The Sims Forums using the original URL will be redirected to The Sims section on the new EA forums site. Also, we’d love to invite you to join our recently created Discord community, where we host monthly events, shell challenges, support multiple languages, and host plenty of Sims discussions. Join here: www.discord.gg/TheSims. The Migration of Threads from The Sims Forums to the New EA forums To preserve the legacy of The Sims Forums, we will be automatically migrating threads that feature activity and were created after The Sims 4 base game went free to play on October 18, 2022 up until March 12, 2024. If there’s a thread created before Oct. 18, 2022 you’d like to nominate for migration, please nominate it here. If the author of any thread does not have their original post migrated, none of the replies to that post will migrate either. Additionally, any uploaded images, videos, or GIFs will not be migrated over. If you linked something via URL, that URL will be migrated over. Any content that’s important to you can be manually copied and pasted to the AHQ Sims forums If you do not wish to have your content migrated to the new EA forums, or for any questions or concerns related to forum privacy, please see our privacy policy here. How to Ensure Your Content from The Sims Forums Will Be Migrated Over Please check the email address(s) associated with your The Sims Forums account. Is this the same email address on your EA account? If no, please proceed to step 2 If yes, please jump ahead to step 3 If the email on your The Sims Forums account does not match the email on your EA account OR if you do not have an EA account, please modify the email addresses to ensure they are matching on both accounts OR please create an EA account with a matching email address. Please ensure you have an account on Answers HQ. You can do so by signing in or registering on Answers HQ with your EA account. Your account on Answers HQ will be carried over to the new EA forums site. Once this is complete and you’ve ensured your The Sims Forums and EA accounts have matching email addresses AND that you’ve signed into Answers HQ with your EA account, then your The Sims Forums content will be migrated over onto the new forums site whenever it goes live and the content will be associated with your forums account. Please complete these steps before March 7 to ensure your forum content is migrated. Update: There was some confusion about what content will be migrating to the EA forums automatically, so we've put together some examples below: Will migrate (does not need to be nominated here): Thread created on November 1, 2022 (entire thread & comments) Thread created on September 1, 2018 with a comment from January 6, 2023 (entire thread & comments) Thread created on February 3, 2021 with an edit from October 4, 2023 (entire thread & comments) Will not migrate unless nominated here (nothing posted after March 12th will migrate to the new EA forum due to data processing timeframes): Thread created on November 5, 2020 with no activity between October 18, 2022 and March 12, 2024 (no comments and/or no edits) Thread created on April 10, 2024 Comment added to a thread on April 1, 2024EA_Cade8 months agoCommunity Manager
