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 interpretations around what happened in my gameplay.
There are one or two more chapters to write before Ainsley moves out of the family home. I desperately need some help transitioning the story to the next generation and to rotational gameplay (I intend to follow both children right now and as much of the family as I can moving forward).
Here are my musings and the questions I want advice/opinions on:
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?
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?
Anything else you can think of. Things you’d love to see or are not particularly enjoying; please let me know!
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 interpretations around what happened in my gameplay.
There are one or two more chapters to write before Ainsley moves out of the family home. I desperately need some help transitioning the story to the next generation and to rotational gameplay (I intend to follow both children right now and as much of the family as I can moving forward).
Here are my musings and the questions I want advice/opinions on:
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?
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?
Spoiler
3) Ainsley has been moved in to the haunted apartment in the Culpepper building in San Myshuno. I did this before remembering that this will mean ghosts in my story (which is semi-realistic). I’ve already tried to deal with Eliza’s abductions as an uncertain experience that other characters don’t necessarily believe. Now I’m picturing arguments between Eliza and Ainsley when Ainsley reports the paranormal activity in her new home. Like “Ghosts, really? But the aliens that took me aren’t real?!”
Obviously there is possibility to bring these occult Sims into even greater prominence (I’d love to try ambrosia), but how far do I really what to go with that in my not-quite-real-world family saga?
Obviously there is possibility to bring these occult Sims into even greater prominence (I’d love to try ambrosia), but how far do I really what to go with that in my not-quite-real-world family saga?
Anything else you can think of. Things you’d love to see or are not particularly enjoying; please let me know!
