The Art of Sims Storytelling

@CitizenErased14 @MedleyMisty You were discussing the idea of rewriting your first few chapters. I started out with long chapters (with too many footnotes) but I had no real direction when I began. I actually tried to shorten my chapters at one point, but then I felt like I was cheapening the story. I've always been a wordy writer who loves character development and dialogue. This tends to make my writing long. Another fellow Simmer (I wish I could remember who and where I read this) wrote about writing the story for yourself. Yes, you have an audience. Yes, you want readers. But ultimately, write the story for your own enjoyment and it doesn't matter what others think. I decided from that point on that I wouldn't compromise my writing style for the sake of gaining new readers.

If I could start over, I'd re-write part 1 with my end goal in mind. Since I began playing the Sims, I wanted to figure out the well-known mysteries of the Sims 3 universe, but also create some of my own. This is my current goal with my story -The Krazy Crazy Life of Kassiopeia Fullbright (which I'll just short-cut to KCLKF). I think I did a decent job with part one, but I'm hoping to do a much better job with part 2. I haphazardly threw in bits and pieces about Kass's dad and his disease and that became an overarching theme in part 1. The story took on a life of its own and I was able to weave greater drama, deeper plot, and more intricacy to my characters as time went on. I want to do more with this in part 2.

Can any of you relate to this - starting out without clear direction and ending up with a much deeper story than you intended when you're writing your Sims stories?