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9 years ago
"VIRTUALEE;14949138" wrote:
Sure thing I can get us started again...
Unrelated to this weeks updates but - how did you guys get started in the world of writing? Have you guys been writing before (The Sims) Or is this your first go round?
What is the best advise you can give someone just starting out with this hobby?
Oh, I love telling this story!
When I was 7, my friend and I were bored. So natrually, we created this game called 'Hedgehog Home,' in which we travelled around school looking for home for us destitute hedgehogs. (Don't ask because I don't know the answer!)
That was my favourite lunch-time ever, the game was so much fun, it was my favourite make-believe game I ever played .We never did play it again, because it was one of those games you could only play once. (We did try though!)
I was so inspired, I decided to write it down as my first ever story I did in my own time.
From that moment on, I fell in love with writing, and did it all the time, buzzing with absurd, childish ideas. (I still am buzzing with absurd childish ideas!) I wrote all of the time, telling anyone who would listen about them, wanting to be a famous author when I was older. I worte every spare minute, it became one of my two hobbies. I wrote and I read. All the time. Everyday.
A year ago, I found Amazon Tribe Naheli by @pammiechick on the Sims 4 page. I had recently got the game and fell in love with it and Amazon Tribe Naheli. I joined the forums, so I could comment and came across the short story contest by @Carewren123 . I thought, why not? So I tried Simlit, and loved it. After that, I found the Writers Lounge and decided to start L4MM. The rest is history!
Advice for starting out? Practise, practise, practise. Run with all your ideas, and don't be scared to waffle. It's just a sign of your imaginative brain at work. You will learn to tone it down. Don't be scared of criticism, and find someone who is better than you to help you with techniques and grammar and punctuation to make it more complex and more readable. Read a lot. An awful lot. It will help you loads! Especially with vocab.
(Practise doesn't have to be much. Only what you can handle. Just write!)
(Is that the answer you were looking for? I think I may have gone off on a tangent!)
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