The Art of Sims Storytelling

"Nory_05;14336214" wrote:

"MedleyMisty;14336134" wrote:


I guess - for me it's like "If I wanted to write something trite and cheap that I didn't actually like or care about, I'd be writing text-only novels for money."

@MedleyMisty OMG, right? :D I want to have fun while i write my story, and i want it to be the sort of story i'd read. If i find people who also enjoy it, it's a bonus! I would imagine writers who write for money and that's their job sometimes have to be crowd pleasers, like for example those who write for TV series, but i just write sim stories to entertain myself :D So i might as well make it really my own.

I wrote a funny / light story as my first go, just to practice writing in English, which is my second language, and then i dipped into more serious stuff. I like doing both.

Haha, I was imagining everyone hating me for saying that so I was anxious, but I clicked on the thread anyway. :)

Yeah - I've sold a short story, and I'm going to submit some more when I can, but I don't know. Self-publishing my non-Sims work may be the way to go for me. Not a fan of huge corporations who only care about profit and not art. I mean, I know there are small independent publishers too, but from what I've read on industry blogs...I don't know. I think for now I'll write Sims stories and occasionally submit text-only stuff to fantasy magazines, and I'll wait on anything more than that until the current upheaval in the industry settles itself out a bit. Maybe until there are good tools for people to sort through and rate self-published stuff.

@RipuAncestor I guess that's what I meant - I'd read that people do it for "unwinding", but I don't get that. I mean, obviously it is a thing that a lot of people do, so it must be valid for them, but well - I guess if I was a Sim I'd have the Knowledge aspiration. ;)