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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Re: elderly characters: A long and shameful time ago, I actually did try writing a story that started with an elder sim and followed him throughout his twisted adventures. It was more my awful plot that made me stop than the supposed hardship of writing an older character. I had fun with that part.
Nowadays, I follow characters as they age, and I do try to give elders something plot-significant to do. For Eight Cicadas, I have a long list of stuff Annette will do as she's old but undying, as her aging stops once she hits elderhood, and the same goes for every immortal character (same mechanics). Even as a youngster, I don't really find anything daunting about writing older characters in general. I always hung around my parents' friends when I was growing up, so I think it rubbed off on me. It's fun thinking about how a character's personality will change with age, even if I tend to have a formula for it (a character's original persona gets more jaded as time goes on).
I also try to put a lot of care into the appearances of every sim, including elders. I'm not doing that just to waste their character on nothing. :p
Nowadays, I follow characters as they age, and I do try to give elders something plot-significant to do. For Eight Cicadas, I have a long list of stuff Annette will do as she's old but undying, as her aging stops once she hits elderhood, and the same goes for every immortal character (same mechanics). Even as a youngster, I don't really find anything daunting about writing older characters in general. I always hung around my parents' friends when I was growing up, so I think it rubbed off on me. It's fun thinking about how a character's personality will change with age, even if I tend to have a formula for it (a character's original persona gets more jaded as time goes on).
I also try to put a lot of care into the appearances of every sim, including elders. I'm not doing that just to waste their character on nothing. :p
