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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"Nory_05;14341695" wrote:"MedleyMisty;14341518" wrote:
At the worst of it I hid the blog for three days, and it felt really nice to see a blank stats page. Because by that point I felt like every view was someone looking for something to put on Simsecret, looking for something to point out as wrong and horrible. Every view felt like an invasion.
@MedleyMisty aw, that sounds nasty :( There are dedicated places where this is ok. It's a place where you submit your writing, and they will destroy it line by line. But even they don't do it in a hurtful manner, and whoever submits there, knows it's going to happen. They get line edits, advice and critique. So that's cool and all, but when someone just posts a sim story on their own blog, i don't see why it's needed. If i don't like someone's blog or story, i stop reading it, cuz "ain't nobody got time fo that!"
If it'd just been about the writing that would have been fine. Well, I mean, so constant vicious critiques in a public place by anonymous people wouldn't have been fine, but still. I could have dealt with it much more easily.
It was constant vicious personal attacks and stalking and pulling out everything I said in the comments or even in the alt text for the images or on other blogs that they hunted down or even finding pictures in my Photobucket (which I locked down after I found out about that) and pulling it all out into public to point out how horrible a human being I was. And it was anonymous, which meant that I didn't know who it was, which meant that I couldn't trust anyone, and there were also other things going on at the time with fake "friends" who were just using me for social status since the story was popular, and well....there's a reason why I call it the Bad Times.
