The Art of Sims Storytelling

"mastressalita;14339464" wrote:
I know I've just been replying all over the place with this thread, I guess with my headaches lately I've had trouble trying to stay cohesive and on track, so bear with. I'm just going to jump into two topics that I think were brought up earlier, and if they weren't... then I'm an idi*t. It's the headache meds talking. -_-;;


And Tumblr... I'll probably get kicked out of the thread for saying it, but I have never been a fan of it. I am old (I'm going to go out on a limb here and say I bet I'm older than the majority of most of the folks that are in this community/hang out on these boards) and I've just never felt comfortable with it. It is such a chore for me to navigate. I loathe the constant popups in my face to subscribe to this or that when I don't even have a frickin' account and am just trying to read a story. And the way the durn page keeps shifting over to the side on me as I'm trying to read a story! ARGH! That drives me bonkers! I have Daily Chronic Headache, I like my websites to just STAY STILL! Not to mention often I find posts aren't dated (sometimes they are, sometimes they aren't, sometimes they just say "such and such hours ago") which make anything posted on Tumblr an absolute chore for me to try to archive the updates for on the Stories and Legacies Index. I'm not going to say if a story is posted on it that I won't read it, but I definitely will say that probably would push the title a bit lower on my ever-growing reading list.

@mastressalita i don't get twitter! For me it just looks difficult to use and not very userfriendly. I used to love blogger, had my personal blog there, but when i decided to write a sim story, i found that wordpress is better. I could very simply follow other blogs.

For me it's also very important how my story looks. On Wordpress i found some really simple, basic themes, and it was easy to set it up in a way that is like turning a pages in a book.

"ra3rei;14338853" wrote:


And lastly to return my my defense of the cheap and mindless. Mindless and fluffy isn't the same as badly written or bad world creation. You can write a completely believable fun lighthearted stories with my little ponies and it not be trite or cheap . When the author doesn't care about the characters or bother to create the world around them that makes sense, then it's bad writing - or writing just to get paid. But most authors I've met or have read their 'on writing' books aren't like that. Even those that toss out multiple books a year with similar plots. They enjoy what they're doing. And as a reader - if I liked the world or the plot - I'd keep reading. I've read enough of "The Cat Who..." mysteries to prove that.

Then again, I tend not to read or watch "real" world stories. What folks consider "modern literature" or movies and TV shows listed as "dramas" - I avoid. Not because I don't think they're good. But I live in that world so I tend to choose to spend my free time in other worlds. To me, simlit is like another world so even when it "realistic" - I still enjoy it. If it's got vampires, demons, mages, aliens, or sims, I'm going to be there.

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@re3rei I agree! I don't mind reading lighthearted, funny, easy to read stories. What i don't like is when a story has no plot, is badly written, has flat, two dimensional characters. Like, for example if every sentence is in a different tense. That would just give me a headache and i wouldn't want to put up with it. Or when I don't know who the main character is, because the POV changes after every two sentences (I've actually seen this happen, not in sim story, but online published story). When nothing actually happens in the story, except the author lists the daily activity in the most boring manner, that's just not something I'd like to read.

It's just my personal preference though. :)