How Far Do You Go Into Storytelling?

I'd really like to get into storytelling but every time I try to make sims for my stories I can't make them look good enough and I get bored in CAS... Then I try to make sims for like a challenge and they look great... .___.

Suuuper detailed. TOO detailed. So detailed that none of my sims stories ever get posted anywhere because I get bogged down with trying to create really specific scenes exactly the way I picture them. I was trying to learn to make cc and poses recently just so that I could make the scene I wanted, and cc and pose-making is really not my thing. :neutral:

I am so into storytelling I could write books based on my sims life stories. They have rich social lives, rich inner lives, everything is just very realistic and complex, as people tend to be :)

However, I'm not hellbent on playing out specific scenes super realistically, I'll set some things up when I feel like it, but I don't need pose player for example. The story is alive in my head and when I take screenshots I like to utilize animations happening naturally in the game. I can also let myself go with the flow and incorporate elements of surprise into my story, if some things happen randomly.

I get very attached to my sims because of that. I've only had one save since City Living, I'm still playing the same family I made when that EP came out. Every generation is unique in its own way.

I like for a sim I'm making to at least have a small bit of background in my head. Other than that I do nothing.

Depends on the family some have stories that stick in my head even if I forget names while others I just go with the flow, either way, I have more fun that way, I treat my sims as characters in whatever I set up for them.

All my sims have a background story and personality, in my head. I play with one save file with a generation family. I usually take pictures of weddings and other important life events.

I just write their stories in my sims journal, or keep them in my head. I take screenshots, but that's mostly for specific life achievement moments: like weddings and such. Or whenever my sims do something cute involving kids or pets. Or if I really like an outfit I designed. The story I come up with is what keeps me interested, but I don't spend my time playing trying to set up things for pictures. That would take the fun out of it for me, though I admire the people who do write sims' stories.

I'll have a story in mind when I create a sim and make it work with how the game plays out, sometimes it takes weird, unexpected turns but I fit it in. Nothing written down or screenshots, just let it play out in my head.

I do get super involved but I don't think of what a character's favourite thing is.. until I need it for a scene.. ie I made Molly and Carly fans of (for Molly and her husband Alexander Goth fans of Once Upon a Time TV series.. I used some words from the show for their vows) and for Carly and Wade I made them fans of Harry Potter. Again I used quotes from the series...


America and David I made a fan of Friends
I made Elizabeth a fan of Pretty Little Liars series for plot related stuff
(Note: I never seen FRIENDS or PLL)

Juliet didn't have much time for reading or watching stuff between her Mom, sister and Juliet's band and falling in love with (Romeo)
Selene didn't have much time for reading or watching stuff because of her being a slave early in life, learning to be a princess (when she was going to marry a Prince) and then a poltican for the rest of her life.

now Jane Grace Olivia is a fan of John Greene novels, Time Traveller's Wife

"snarkles;d-943329" wrote:
I know some people get suuuuper involved in telling stories, setting up scenes, and stuff like that, which I think is super admirable. I just don't have the patience for it! What I'll usually do is have a mental idea of what each Sim is like - likes, dislikes, aspirations, etc. - and imagine their personalities and histories based on that.

I do this OP! Though lol I don't quite get bored and kill lol :D and I try to let my sims choose but sometimes I am like nooooope! The only scenes I set up are really gushy ones like first kiss, holidays (fake ones right now need seasons!!!) But I have fun :) Great topic I'll stick around to get some ideas!