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 ...
Forum Discussion
@CathyTea : You may be! I'm used to most forums I join pretty much everyone being in their 20s or younger, so I always feel like a dinosaur (and have to hide my gray hair).
@InfraGreen : I would bow down to someone in their 70s. I've always been a fan of elders. ^_^
And I have to say, at least in the stories I've read thus far, elders are such an under-used demographic for characters... unless the young adult founders age up into elders, there never seem to just be characters made elders from the start... And I've even heard of folks that purposefully cull their elder populations off, too. I wonder if this trend has to do with so many SimLit authors being younger themselves?
Or maybe they are out there, and I just haven't happened to stumble upon those stories yet...
@InfraGreen : I would bow down to someone in their 70s. I've always been a fan of elders. ^_^
And I have to say, at least in the stories I've read thus far, elders are such an under-used demographic for characters... unless the young adult founders age up into elders, there never seem to just be characters made elders from the start... And I've even heard of folks that purposefully cull their elder populations off, too. I wonder if this trend has to do with so many SimLit authors being younger themselves?
Or maybe they are out there, and I just haven't happened to stumble upon those stories yet...
