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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I pretty much feel the same way as @ra3rei , viewing other works really just pushes me to improve my own, rather than get wilty-flower, or rage-quit, or decide I need to go on a re-writing spree to hide all my imperfections. Do I have insecurities? Sure, I think I already expressed them by explaining my sudden feelings that I was "doing everything the wrong way" and I just simply had to "get over that" because nothing productive is going to happen lingering on them.
When I first started out, it was really discouraging, because my close friends simply would not look at my work. They couldn't care less. And I mean, these are my "I would jump in front of a bullet for you" kind of friends, my BFF and my little sister, people like that. I just had to come to an acceptance within myself that they were never going to read my work, no matter how much I wanted it to happen and no matter how much it hurt that they wouldn't, and move past that, and it had no reflection whatsoever on my work itself. Rather, these are people that just won't look past the fact that there are Sims in the pictures, and ergo, they think "Oh, you have to play The Sims, and we don't play The Sims, that's your thing, so we just can't enjoy this." It doesn't matter if I try to explain to them that unlike fanfiction, that sort of requires an understanding of the world or the characters of a fandom, The Sims isn't really like that, this is all original fiction, it is little more than providing illustration to a story that requires no special knowledge of The Sims, they just aren't going to read it because... it uses The Sims. That's why I went and found these forums, filled with people who play The Sims. People who understand. People who, at the very least, aren't going to judge based on the game. And that has actually been a very rewarding experience, as I've made so many new friends as a result.
When I first started out, it was really discouraging, because my close friends simply would not look at my work. They couldn't care less. And I mean, these are my "I would jump in front of a bullet for you" kind of friends, my BFF and my little sister, people like that. I just had to come to an acceptance within myself that they were never going to read my work, no matter how much I wanted it to happen and no matter how much it hurt that they wouldn't, and move past that, and it had no reflection whatsoever on my work itself. Rather, these are people that just won't look past the fact that there are Sims in the pictures, and ergo, they think "Oh, you have to play The Sims, and we don't play The Sims, that's your thing, so we just can't enjoy this." It doesn't matter if I try to explain to them that unlike fanfiction, that sort of requires an understanding of the world or the characters of a fandom, The Sims isn't really like that, this is all original fiction, it is little more than providing illustration to a story that requires no special knowledge of The Sims, they just aren't going to read it because... it uses The Sims. That's why I went and found these forums, filled with people who play The Sims. People who understand. People who, at the very least, aren't going to judge based on the game. And that has actually been a very rewarding experience, as I've made so many new friends as a result.
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