Story Ideas Needed

I'm into the scandalous love story's, a favourite one for me is
Your a pretty young woman new to town and fall in love with the boss, so you invite him over, have some drinks and maybe woohoo (optional) but what he doesn't tell you is he is married with children (choose a married man) then you are too far into this so it's pretty much trying to be in a relationship without the family finding out

You can choose to befriend members of the family then after a while reveal the secret to ONE member of the family (must not be wife/husband) that sim won't like it when your near the other one but doesn't say anything to the wife so it makes it really secret yet funny,

What I did to end it was got pregnant and told the wife about everything, usually they break up and you can take the husband and live somewhere else though now you have step sons and daughters from the other family and it's like a family feud it's actually hillarious

I think that coming up with a plot for a story in the Sims is the hardest things to do. I think it's better to have a story-arc than a story per-se as the Sims themselves are pretty awesome with telling their story themselves.
I mean, plots like this:
-Sim cityslicker who wants to become the jockey and takes up living in Appaloosa plains.
-Investigator in Bridgeport, uncovering a vampire-conspiracy.
-Pick a challenge, any challenge, and weave your story around that.
Pretty soon, you'll see little stories unfold around and with your Sims and it'll snowball from there. At least, that's how it works for me, I let the Sims do the work. ^^

Normally, I try and play for a few generations, almost like a legacy, but try and make each generation distinctly different from the next.

Well I just love a legacy story. A defining plot point in my legacy was using the imaginary friend that came in generations. You could always pick an EA feature and create a story around it

Or you could use the sims as an alternate world where life has become sims. And instead of gradual aging people just jump to a different age stage and stuff like that. And then think "why?" "How did s/he get there?" "Why is the world like that?" Stuff like that :-)

I think following a challenge is the easiest way to find a red thread. Why don't you just read through a few of them. May be you get an idea while reading. If not try not to force a plot. I'm not a sims-story-writer but I did wrote some original stories even if I'm a bit rusty right now.
You don't have to follow certain rules, you can bend them like you want to bend them.
And fanfiction isn't equal to shipping people :D It's quite common but it works brilliant without random pairings. May be it could be really interesting to focus on other things than love relationships.

I've been playing a challenge called the town legacy challenge and I've got some legacies for sims in custom worlds where I play the towns without having to follow all of the town legacy challenge rules and I'm supposed to play my towns and write the stories about the struggles they have in the early days for getting the town set up and the founding families trying to start the first generation in their home town.

It's kinda tough to make stories. :s But there are a few elements that can engage viewers to witness them unfold.

Presentation: A certain prop or picture can set the mood and theme for the story.

Description: You wanna be descriptive about the setting and characters as possible.

Consistency: Keep the style of storytelling the same throughout the entire story. But don't be afraid to twist the plot to subtle measures.

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