Off the grid writing skill / improve letter box

There is a notebook, but all you really do in it is add diary entries. But, yeah, I agree with this. We also need brooms for BTD for off the grid houses. How long are we going to wait for that? We now have ROM brooms, it shouldn't be that hard, either.

I have never understood why, when they introduced the typewriter to the Sims, they did not also include a manual typewriter option. Those things were historically always off the grid and were around since the 1800s. What we got was a Selectric electric typewriter that somehow you could play video games on. I remember the actual things from my teen years: the only games you could play on those machines were word games you made up yourself. They also did not come with self correcting ink: that came later with electronic typewriters. Also, they need paper sketch pads, and most activity and skills objects should be off the grid. This stuff should be intuitive. Then again, most people here weren’t around in the 70s or 80s, or even 90s.

I had a typewriter once from someone else, though. That is what we need in CL. I would also love more off the grid content for that pack. It already sort of looks old fashioned, it just needs more TLC to actually make it play that way.

Unless we're playing some Sci fi secret agent from Sixam that secretly has their whole computer system hidden in such a typewriter...

I wonder how real-world publishers respond to unsolicited hand-written or typewritten manuscripts these days.

I would love to have both an old-fashioned typewriter in the game, and the ability to write more than diary entries by hand. Both options would be perfect for historical play.

With a printing press, and blackletter movable type!

Edited to add: or with a pen, but despite their ancientness it seems volume 1 at least was mass-produced.

Here's an idea for what they can do. Have the Sim purchase a special journal from the store, which is only for writing a single story in. The Sim begins to write it. When done, it becomes a readable book which you put in the mailbox. They already have animations for it. Maybe these special journals will come in a pack so you can make multiple ones.

"Benjamilian;c-18149184" wrote:
With a printing press, and blackletter movable type!

Edited to add: or with a pen, but despite their ancientness it seems volume 1 at least was mass-produced.

Now, let's add a printing press to the vampire realm.

Now, there is a mod, but it still requires a computer to start books, and it doesn't let you continue them- you have to finish them as immediately as you started them iirc. Not very practical.

"Benjamilian;c-18148456" wrote:
I wonder how real-world publishers respond to unsolicited hand-written or typewritten manuscripts these days.

You can do it, take a photo of your written work and send it to the publisher to check it. Lots of pics required.