👽 Miller Legacy 🛸
Sul sul fellow simmers! The Miller Legacy is my first Legacy Challenge and the way I found to explore the (for me) new The Sims 4 game in the moment I decided to buy it. It's the translation...
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Thanks @GlacierSnow !
When starting to post my legacy here I had already in mind a quite clear idea of how long the story would have been because in here I'm just translating the original legacy I started in Italian a few years ago (for my first attempt to Simlit in a foreign language, translating an existing story seemed more approachable than writing a new one from zero...)
Anyway, when posting generation 1 in here I already knew that this story would have surpassed the 200 chapters mark at some point, and I saw already that for my readers it was hard to keep track of what happened in the previous generations and so forth. So I decided to delimit more clearly each generation and add these summaries instead, I find the result much easier to follow this way. Also, I thought that it could have helped people to skip a whole generation (if they didn't like it) and give it a go to the next one without being completely lost.
I also really appreciate that you pointed out the different voices of the heirs, and their different viewpoints. It is something I care about quite a lot and, even if sometimes I get so used to the way of writing of a certain character that I struggle to switch to another tone, I always put some effort into this aspect. I'm also happy that it is still noticeable also when I write in English, because in this language my vocabulary is way more limited and this makes it harder for me to use different registers for each character. Luke was particularly hard to write in this sense because, so that he's a professional writer, I originally tried to write his diary by using very articulate vocabulary and syntax (which I'm just unable to reproduce convincingly in English). Then, of course, I also try to give them different opinions and ideas, and at least this part should be less affected by the translation...
However, fully switching to Venus and Cassy will be another quite strong change of viewpoint, they could actually be one of the generations showing the most evident change in the paradigm of the whole legacy...
But now I should probably stop teasing about how much I like generation 5 and start posting it: don't worry, the first few chapters are almost ready, I will publish them in a few days :P
When starting to post my legacy here I had already in mind a quite clear idea of how long the story would have been because in here I'm just translating the original legacy I started in Italian a few years ago (for my first attempt to Simlit in a foreign language, translating an existing story seemed more approachable than writing a new one from zero...)
Anyway, when posting generation 1 in here I already knew that this story would have surpassed the 200 chapters mark at some point, and I saw already that for my readers it was hard to keep track of what happened in the previous generations and so forth. So I decided to delimit more clearly each generation and add these summaries instead, I find the result much easier to follow this way. Also, I thought that it could have helped people to skip a whole generation (if they didn't like it) and give it a go to the next one without being completely lost.
I also really appreciate that you pointed out the different voices of the heirs, and their different viewpoints. It is something I care about quite a lot and, even if sometimes I get so used to the way of writing of a certain character that I struggle to switch to another tone, I always put some effort into this aspect. I'm also happy that it is still noticeable also when I write in English, because in this language my vocabulary is way more limited and this makes it harder for me to use different registers for each character. Luke was particularly hard to write in this sense because, so that he's a professional writer, I originally tried to write his diary by using very articulate vocabulary and syntax (which I'm just unable to reproduce convincingly in English). Then, of course, I also try to give them different opinions and ideas, and at least this part should be less affected by the translation...
However, fully switching to Venus and Cassy will be another quite strong change of viewpoint, they could actually be one of the generations showing the most evident change in the paradigm of the whole legacy...
But now I should probably stop teasing about how much I like generation 5 and start posting it: don't worry, the first few chapters are almost ready, I will publish them in a few days :P
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