This is a casual variation on a reading circle. There is no real obligation to read each others' stories (although many of us do read each others' work already anyway), and no structured weekly discussions. Just a simlit chit-chat thread for a group of friends to discuss topics like approaches to writing, story themes, character archetypes, and essential stuff such as undead gnome army world domination, all accompanied by a(n un)healthy side of pancakes.
You can say that again about Freezer Dream! And to think we’ll get the writer’s pov at the end of Story 1. I didn’t see that coming. I agree. Both chapters were fun to read!
I love stories with quirky awkward characters too. They’re adorable.
This got me thinking, are there any themes you want to explore in future stories that you haven't explored in your current story (ies)?
I’ve recently been toying with the idea of writing a story with happiness and lightness as a theme. I guess it’s not surprising given what I’m writing now. Even so I think it’ll be a challenge so it’ll be worth writing at least for me, not necessarily for reading.
ThePlumbob wrote: Ooh, blueberries. I love berries on my pancakes! Plus, now that the feast involves fruit, we can claim that it's all healthy and nutritious food haha.
Nah, now we add the chocolate fondue and wait for @mercuryfoam ! :mrgreen:
@ThePlumbob I don't consider any of mine villains. All just products of circumstance and poor choices. Really, really poor choices. :D Honest. Noooo need for suspicions.
@ThePlumbob No need to apologize! I love tangents that go off the deep end and extremely long posts, as you might have noticed from my comments on your chapters, haha. Seeing other people's perspective on villains is super interesting, and I like how we're all mildly similar to some extent :mrgreen:
Aaaahh, how I wish I could actually have sugar. Dandy's pancakes with chocolate-fondue covered blueberries, baumkuchen and cookies sounds like pure heaven. :*
*Edit: even villain Yimi starts her day with petting cute cats. She may be laughing maniacally while doing so, though.
@ThePlumbob I have narrowed it down to two each.They are: Without Shoes/November, Spawned Somehow/Where Babies Come From and Fill The Void/Inside. And yes I struggle with chapter naming and that is why they are all rubbish and weird. Characters however are easy to name, as the likes of Broof probably tells you. :D :D :D
@SnuffyBucket Honestly I don't know where you get your title inspiration, your chapter names are always stellar. Tough choice between Spawned Somehow and Where Babies Come From :D
@lone_cat Ooh, song names are a good shout! I used to do that in my old legacy but surprisingly it haven't done one of those yet in my current story - which is more shocking to me than anyone! Freezer Dream sounds cool (no pun intended :D ) - I need to go back and check which chapter I had!
@DeafSimmer Hi, thanks for popping by :) Really sorry but we just set this up to be a small contained group - kind of like a reading circle. It wasn't really intended to be more of a general thread since we already have the Writers Lounge and we didn't want to duplicate anything. Basically we were already cross-messaging each other and blowing up each others' inboxes talking about the same things, and it was getting a bit convoluted so we figured we'd set up a thread instead. Sorry it's my bad, I probably worded it poorly in the first post.
I’ve decided this thread’s unspoken name to be Chaos thread. So much happens when I refresh the page or come on and find out what shenanigans you guys have been up to.
And I’m posting two replies in quick succession. This is a mad hatter reply (both messiness and content).
https://i.ibb.co/ZBVM8vV/3.jpg "Pick whichever you like."
https://i.ibb.co/R395YBS/TS4-x64-2020-08-15-02-41-40.png "Or join me and you can control them all! Muahaha!" :lol:
Yes, clearly you're the angel :p Trying to distract from the small matter of who started the whole scythe business in the first place :D
Why you gotta bring up the past?? Be like Curtis. Or Athena. Forgive and forget. :tongue:
"SnuffyBucket;c-17621538" wrote: I was gone half a day and see we have descended into random madness, already. :D I finished 3 chapters today. I am a machine.
First, how do you finish 3 chapters in one day?! Machine is right lol. I’m in awe. Like I’d write something and spend at least 3 days fixing that one piece.
@mercuryfoam is 5 an army? Also... have you met my 5? :D I'd be more worried about Zombie Sandy that @ThePlumbob keeps trying to release into the wild. There'd be a villain. *shudder*
I thought about that when I was making it, that maybe I should add more scythes. But oooh boy I’m so glad I didn’t. Yimi is already a supervillain with just 5 at her disposal! If anything, we need to do damage control than add to her cosmic power. :joy:
"_sims_Yimi;c-17621314" wrote: :smirk: I'm not giving them back. They're mine now. I need them for scyence.
Wait. Why’s no one asking about this? Who’s Scyene? Is this a hint? OOOOH Did I just get a sneak peak to the next ToC? (Wait. That can’t be. Okay who’s Scyence? I’m mighty curious now.)
"lone_cat;c-17621482" wrote:
I'm not denying my villainy. My cat likes to sit in my lap as I write, and I occasionally take breaks to pet her and laugh maniacally as I torture my characters with my army of merpeople. >:) That movie gave me nightmares for a week. I can just hear my merpeople making that creepy throat noise as they crawl toward you.
You're another one! I see the pattern here. ... *Looks at Yimi and her cats, looks at lone_cat's avatar* Yes okay. I think we know who to look out for next. :lol: And you just had to make your mer people make that throaty noise. Oh man. I can picture it vividly. I'll let you know if I get any vivid mer people hybrid crawling zombie dreams. :joy:
mercuryfoam wrote: Wait. Why’s no one asking about this? Who’s Scyene? Is this a hint? OOOOH Did I just get a sneak peak to the next ToC? (Wait. That can’t be. Okay who’s Scyence? I’m mighty curious now.)
I need it for scyence. It’ll hit you when you say it out loud. If not, then I am a failure as a comedian. XD
mercuryfoam wrote: Topic: Writing romance.
What are your thoughts on it? What makes a good romance? How do I write a believable romance? Any inspirations I can go read up on? Owh and please don't spoil your stories! I'm shipping almost everyone's cast and I want to see it play out. :love:
Oof, I have no experience whatsoever with writing romance. That’s why I was subtly not-so-subtly trying to probe your minds for tips, haha. I’ll have to sleep on this and answer in the morning. :D
@mercuryfoam Oh wow, that's a lot of tools! I'm lucky since I get the Adobe Suite through work, so I just use Photoshop for everything (really, I should be less lazy and actually do more with it haha)
My happy scenes are also edited in response to the darkness to be extra dreamy or has a yellow/orange/happy color tinge to it to balance things somewhat.
I love the golden glow of your happy moments! They really stand out!
#4 To add stuff that doesn’t exist in game.
Aah, I always assumed the binoculars and the wig were cc! (Though let's face it, I was so immersed in B2W that I didn't really question it.) You've made them blend in seamlessly!
"ThePlumbob;c-17626174" wrote: @SnuffyBucket Nah, it's not the load times. It's just trying to postpone the inevitable moment of running out of WP storage space (which may happen sooner rather than later if I keep doing more 98 image chapters lol). I'm usually too lazy to resize (I feel like my whole comment above could have just been summarised as "I'm lazy" :D ), but it's definitely a good idea to turn to the photos to jpg, the pngs are huge.
Yup. This. That's the biggest reason for me compulsively turning them into jpgs and re-sizing them, too. I've only used 4% so far, so I have miles and miles of storage space left, but I still freak out over possibly running out of space in the future. :sweat_smile:
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