Advice/Opinions on the shape of my Pancakes blog/story.
Homepage for my story/blog on the Pancakes. It’s my version of the maxis pre-mades, Bob and Eliza Pancakes. It’s a mix of game and plot driven. That is, I have wound my own meanings and interpret...
Got a moment, so I thought I'd stop off to respond to your questions!
1) How should I transition the blog into the next generation? Should I perhaps keep going on the original blog for Bob, Eliza and Addison while starting a new one for Ainsley? Or, should everything just be kept in one blog, with alternate chapters for households? How else could I handle this?
I suppose it depends on how intertwined and how separate you want the two stories to be. It could also deal with whether the time will split off or not...
For example, suppose you decided to turn aging off for Bob and Eliza, but leaving it on for Ainsley. Then, before long, the chronologies wouldn't sink up. (If you did this, you'd probably have two different saves, so all sorts of different things could happen in the two stories.)
With this approach, it makes sense to me to have a different blog--or at least a different section of the original blog.
But if you left them in the same save, in, basically, the same story, then it would make sense for it to be on the same blog. With this approach, it becomes like a neighborhood rotation.
I personally love this approach! I'd suggest not being too worried about regular patterns with the alternations. Just stay with one household or plotline as long as you want, until it naturally seems like a good time to you to switch.
For a great example of a rotation, you might want to look at @Jes2G 's Keeping up with the Joneses. I've been wanting to suggest this to you, anyway, since one of the families that's followed is Bob and Eliza's!
Her story's a great example of how to move between multiple houses in one story.
2) Do I need to put in a chapter index and somehow make navigating the blog easier? At approximately what point does that sort of thing become necessary? Do other parts of the layout need improvement?
Yes, a chapter index would be awesome! If you kept it all one story, that's all that would be needed--just a Table of Contents. But if you had multiple stories, you'd probably want different pages for each story's table of contents.
Regarding the question about ghosts, I'd love to see you handle it in the way you did Eliza's abduction. I think it can work, realistically! For example, I work in an office building that is reputed to be haunted. I've felt and seen ghosts there--and so have many of my coworkers. You should listen to the stories that the night custodians have to tell! But, simultaneously, this is the real world, right? (at least I think so...) So, imagine an ordinary day, with us working in our office, and then, somehow the topic comes up. Do I stay quiet? Do I say, "oh, yes, I've felt things, too." And if so, in what detail do I go into? It's pretty interesting--and other people's responses are interesting, too! So far, because enough of us report hearing, seeing, or feeling things, and because we're all relatively appropriate about the contexts in which we bring up anything, and we're all hard workers and good employees who seem, overall, quite well-balanced and sane, it's never caused an issue when we say, "Oh, yes. I've seen a ghost in the back hallway." So... I think it could be really interesting! Personally, I am not interested in ghosts--they creep me out, and I want to keep my distance from them--but when some of my friends or coworkers hear about what I and others have experienced, they become incredibly fascinated--especially when they've never felt or seen them! And then, they want to start hanging out in the haunted hallway during the hours when the hauntings tend to happen, and they want to go on Haunted Hotel tours that happen in our area, and they become Ghost Fans! It's interesting! So it brings up a lot of really neat possibilities for the story!
I say, keep it in! You can have a lot of fun with it while still staying within the realm of (mostly) realistic!
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