The Art of Sims Storytelling
Hi guys! @CathyTea and I were talking, and we thought we'd try making a thread that would be focused solely on writing, especially Sims story writing. The writers' lounge thread is great for being ...
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"mastressalita;14331270" wrote:
I think, of recent, I've read a lot of TS3 stories that are obviously the product of heavy pose-mods, and I started reading about a lot more authors writing their chapters before going into game, so I started thinking that was a more prevalent method... I guess it is a bit of a comfort to hear there are quite a few folks that actually do let the game have quite a bit of control and do their writing second to the gaming. All these stories have been quite interesting. ^_^
As far as the relationship between the pictures and the words, I have always been the sort of person that kind of felt like the pictures told so much of the story that a lot of text wasn't really necessary... sort of like children's picture books. So I always left my text quite sparse. It really hasn't been until recently, seeing works that have far higher word counts, that I've felt the need to reassess my way of doing things.
Yeah--I really like there to be a dance between the pictures and text--I don't like for the text to describe what the pictures show, but I like both to sort of collaborate to tell the story. @JordanNicoleJJ does an amazing job with this in her SimSelf Legacy, especially in some of the Gen 6 and Gen 7 chapters.
