Willingly Writing Reading Circle (On Hiatus)

Sim of the month sounds good to me. It would make it more "prestigious", lol.

I haven't made one yet, but I would probably use this site: http://www.strawpoll.me/. Very, very easy to use; takes literally six seconds to make a poll.

I would say we nominate characters from one another's stories...but I suppose that could get confusing fast; what if one person has a lot of nominations for their one story? Let's figure that out.

"CreamierThanMami;14917487" wrote:
Sim of the month sounds good to me. It would make it more "prestigious", lol.

I haven't made one yet, but I would probably use this site: http://www.strawpoll.me/. Very, very easy to use; takes literally six seconds to make a poll.

I would say we nominate characters from one another's stories...but I suppose that could get confusing fast; what if one person has a lot of nominations for their one story? Let's figure that out.

Here's what I'm thinking. I think we should all get caught up or at least underway on the reading. Then maybe we can nominate Sims here via the comments section during the last week in June and on July 1st, if you want to throw up a poll naming all the Sims we've nominated @CreamierThanMami we can vote and then see the results by should we say Monday, the 4th or Tuesday the 5th?

When you nominate, you can name the Sim you're nominating, the story the Sim is from, and maybe 1-2 sentences about why you're nominating this Sim OR link to a specific section highlighting this Sim giving your reason for nominating. You can nominate for humor, best attire, attitude, dialogue, backstory, reaction, description, etc, to name a few different reasons. We can even select a specific set of parameters if we want like July will be "the funniest Sim," and then August will be "the best dressed Sim" or we can just do a general nomination for SOTM. I think it's fair to say you can't nominate one of your own characters unless someone objects to this rule.

During the month that the Sim is SOTM, we can discuss why we like the character or a certain section of a story featuring that character (in addition to other topics that come up as we go). The person whose Sim is featured can maybe give a mini bio for the character and include a picture to be featured above for SOTM. This doesn't have to be done immediately fyi since the Sim will be featured for the whole month so it can be as we go.

What do you all think? If you agree, if you wouldn't mind, just saying YAY below and then I'll know we're a go for these "guidelines." Then if you have any objections, thoughts, or ideas to expand or do things differently, let me know. Once we get everyone's YAY, I'll add this to a "reserved" post above.

I give a hearty "yay"! I'm going to start reading stories now in order to catch up. I think I'll also give some of my own updates, as well - eventually.

I'm reading Krazy Life of Kass so far, and good god, everything is so detailed! I'm really enjoying it so far.

Just read your first chapter @CreamierThanMami and I am impressed. I am looking forward to reading more. I wish I had more time to read now, but I've got to get to other things. Until later...great start!

my schedule so far...
My sets are complete! im currently in the picture taking process and final editing stages of my written work.
oooo i wanna share my sets so bad, im soooooooo happy with how they turned out.

Forums Name: @xjojox
Author's Bio: My name is Joanne, but my family and friends call me Jojo. Always been called that since i was kid. I was born and raised in Southern Australia with an all Australian family. I'm in my early thirties and currently on hiatus studying my nursing degree, due to kids and family. Hope to be returning to that soon! Speaking of children i have two, a boy and a girl. One 13 the other 3. They both keep me on my toes considering i have a moody teenager and a toddler that destroys everything lol. My hobbies have always been the sims. Ever since i was 18, I haven't had a part of my life really where i haven't been playing it or doing something creative using the game. So between wrangling kids, studying and normal everyday stuff ... the sims is my hobby and my outlet to have some fun too.

Story Overview: Fine Lines - No link yet, coming soon!
Abby Greene : Drama Queen, singing star, brat, confused ... take a pick! :smile: Abby has reached the stage of maturity or let's say immaturity? And her life has taken a massive turn for the worst. The only way Abby can deal is continue down a road of rebellion against this brand new life change. But in the meantime, making mistakes, finding love, and finding herself. This teenager is still unsure what she wants, and is striving to find it as she is growing up. It's only a matter of time before Abby begins to realise how many fine lines she will cross between love, hate, loss and gain ...

I started on @CreamierThanMami s story today, it's really drawing me in. I think it's the most creative backstory for a baby challenge I have seen so far :) will continue reading tomorrow

Thank you, @AdamsEve1231! Trust me, this next chapter that I'm writing is going to add a whole other layer of depth to Ginny's world.

Quick, silly little game update since you said that those were okay here.

You see, in Journey of a 1,000 Miles, Fawn Of Joon is supposed to be a cool, collected, mysterious figure in my story. And yet...

https://s31.postimg.org/4ast3kpi3/Screenshot_25.jpg

It's really hard to make him that when his resting face is so damn goofy. I usually have to physically pose his face in Pose Player to make him look half serious...

Testing, testing...for some reason, the forums absolutely refuse to allow me to post. I have no idea why. It keeps telling me that my post is "five characters too short". And of course, adding five characters does absolutely nothing. Oh, forums. Why must you be as buggy as the game?


Chapter Nine of Baby Steps is up. If you like how much detail my challenge has, you're going to love the bombshells I drop here.

But more importantly, I got Ginny to woohoo with this freak, lol:

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zLFHsPy-8pc/V2HBdYxh52I/AAAAAAAABvw/ryXgE_bhjlo0VeNuroFFA1EkOk1aypEMQCKgB/s640/Screenshot.jpg

Can't wait to see those babies. *shudders*

@JLBDreamer Seems like a perfect introduction to me! Welcome to the thread.

I always wished that I had the dedication for multiple Sims stories, but it's hard enough for me to update the one.