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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@CathyTea Oh my gosh! Thank you! :)
Seth isn't in Surreal Darkness though. The narrator is definitely not Seth. The narrator is way too emotionally healthy to be Seth, lol.
Oooh though! I hadn't thought of the scenery pics that way, as being what the narrator is seeing! I guess they are though, except for the stylized pics of Death. And sometimes the caption goes way beyond the pic, like the pic of the empty table and chairs and the description of the party with the five baby unicorns and their giant unicorn father with all the spikes that change color and the winged kittens and the thin strips of universes playing Twister in front of the bass machine.
But then, with those sorts of pics, I think you could wonder - is the description what's actually happening, or is the narrator perhaps not that all tied into reality at the moment? And what the pic shows is reality but the description is what the narrator is seeing inside their mind?
I think you're the second person to point out the narrator could very easily be a stand-in for the reader, since the narrator does not have a gender or a name or a physical representation. Which I didn't think about it that way at all - but then I never consciously think about what I'm doing when I write. I get out of the way and let my subconscious control my fingers.
@mastressalita Well, of course you feel the pain, since our process seems to be so similar! Like I'm taking all these pics of conversations and of each bit of the main character getting out of bed, and I want to use all of them!!!! But I can't! *flips table*
Seth isn't in Surreal Darkness though. The narrator is definitely not Seth. The narrator is way too emotionally healthy to be Seth, lol.
Oooh though! I hadn't thought of the scenery pics that way, as being what the narrator is seeing! I guess they are though, except for the stylized pics of Death. And sometimes the caption goes way beyond the pic, like the pic of the empty table and chairs and the description of the party with the five baby unicorns and their giant unicorn father with all the spikes that change color and the winged kittens and the thin strips of universes playing Twister in front of the bass machine.
But then, with those sorts of pics, I think you could wonder - is the description what's actually happening, or is the narrator perhaps not that all tied into reality at the moment? And what the pic shows is reality but the description is what the narrator is seeing inside their mind?
I think you're the second person to point out the narrator could very easily be a stand-in for the reader, since the narrator does not have a gender or a name or a physical representation. Which I didn't think about it that way at all - but then I never consciously think about what I'm doing when I write. I get out of the way and let my subconscious control my fingers.
@mastressalita Well, of course you feel the pain, since our process seems to be so similar! Like I'm taking all these pics of conversations and of each bit of the main character getting out of bed, and I want to use all of them!!!! But I can't! *flips table*
