SimLit Celebrations and Discussions
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"AdamsEve1231;15320573" wrote:"Munterbacon;15319552" wrote:
Thanks @Charliimai for the shoutout! I don't read as much as I should but I'm hoping that will change when I get a new, less physical job.
I really wanted to make MLAAZ work with SimLit but my ideas were just too big for what I could pull off in TS4, I spent so much time searching for cc and building sets and still having to compromise on the story when I couldn't find a certain thing. On a more positive MLAAZ note, with complete free-reign, I've written 24 chapters for it as part of a novel. Might spend some time this month going through what I've written and try and get some more inspiration :)
@Munterbacon I can totally understand the feeling of compromising the story to get the perfect screenshots and still unable to capture everything you'd like. I've run into that problem multiple times and I get plum into spending an entire day looking for cc and mods that it's almost not worth it. That's when I've written text-based chapters only. I am glad you found a way to free yourself up to really write the story. Good luck with your endeavors.
Thank you! I've thought about wordless chapters, but I decided against it as it would so quickly fall outside the realm of SimLit.
"Charliimai;15320905" wrote:"Munterbacon;15319552" wrote:
Thanks @Charliimai for the shoutout! I don't read as much as I should but I'm hoping that will change when I get a new, less physical job.
I really wanted to make MLAAZ work with SimLit but my ideas were just too big for what I could pull off in TS4, I spent so much time searching for cc and building sets and still having to compromise on the story when I couldn't find a certain thing. On a more positive MLAAZ note, with complete free-reign, I've written 24 chapters for it as part of a novel. Might spend some time this month going through what I've written and try and get some more inspiration :)
@Munterbacon I am a big reader when I get some time to myself which I don't often so the odd time I do I binge. My life as a zombie is the only one I've read twice. I do hope you get inspired to write more even as a pictureless novel I would love to read it. *In my best Zombie voice* "I need moooore..." :D
Wow! That's awesome! :D I saw you binge Ironbound the other week and meant to say something but it completely slipped my mind, so thank you! I have been considering setting up a new blog to post my MLAAZ chapters but that will have to happen when I get more time :)
"AdamsEve1231;15320573" wrote:
@everyone I would love to talk about this idea more - text-based chapters in the SimLit world or when you run into issues conveying your idea/story. Thoughts?
It can be done really well but I tend to struggle with the idea of it.
One example would be a scene in Ironbound:
Behind a spoiler tag, but it doesn't really spoil anything major.
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Where one of the characters is gravely injured, she "wakes up" in this strange realm, it's a fever-dream. All the colour is gone from the world around her, and everything sort of ripples fluidly. She is drawn to this cottage in colour, it reminds her of someone, and almost as if by magic that someone appears, there is colour in their eyes and she is drawn to him.
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What I am trying to portray in these images, and the accompanying words in the chapters involved is this characters fight with death. She is tempted by familiar things, and all she has to do is say that she wants to stay and she would pass peacefully, joining her loved one. Colour and the lack of it plays a massive part in these chapters, and having to try and write it as text only, I actually think it would've made the scene weaker?
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What I am trying to portray in these images, and the accompanying words in the chapters involved is this characters fight with death. She is tempted by familiar things, and all she has to do is say that she wants to stay and she would pass peacefully, joining her loved one. Colour and the lack of it plays a massive part in these chapters, and having to try and write it as text only, I actually think it would've made the scene weaker?
@Charliimai If you get an answer for your question regarding roadblocks, let me know because I feel it too!
