The Art of Sims Storytelling

"MedleyMisty;14343610" wrote:

So...hey, that's a topic we could talk about in this thread! Does other people's work ever make you feel insecure about yours? If so, how do you handle that feeling?

@MedelyMisty So far it hasn't really been a problem for me. I do admire some other writers' work and i even learn from them by reading their stuff, but i don't really feel insecure.

What does make me insecure is when i later re-read my own stuff and i think: could i have done that differently? Would that have been better?

I also feel insecure when i have to write emotional scenes.

Losing readers in the middle of the story did freak me out in the beginning, but i know from my own example, that sometimes i just don't have time to read stories. I do it mostly on my phone during my lunchbreak, and for some reason in the past few weeks every time i read something on wordpress, it keeps crashing. So i was forced to not read. It's now the end of the year and work is just so busy, that i can't even sneak a peak at anything interesting while i'm working. :(

"MedleyMisty;14344094" wrote:

Great question! Yes and no, it makes me feel insecure in that I am the first to claim I am not a professional writer and so everyone else has that advantage over me. However, other peoples work has inspired me to share the stories I have collected in my heart over the years. I want others to experience the plethora of feelings I feel when I read great stories, when they hear mine, but mostly I am in experimentation mode and has become a fun hobby :)

Well, i spend quite a lot of time writing my chapters too, because i want to like them myself first, before i even think about publishing it. There's nothing wrong with that. There are way too many stuff on the internet that is badly edited (or not at all), badly written, etc. I don't see why it's a problem that i try to create something nice.

"CitizenErased14;14344247" wrote:
It's kind of funny, when I was writing D2D, I called it "my story" or "my novel" whenever I talked about it. But I would never tell people it used the Sims to illustrate :lol: As I got near the end, I finally got brave and revealed to my friends that it was a SimLit story, and no one was (outwardly, at least :lol:) rude or judgemental, which was a nice surprise!


Oh, and @MedleyMisty re: family members reading, the only person I know in real life who's read my story is my boyfriend. He did so with great reluctance, I must say :lol: He became like my proofreader. But he was always honest with me about the fact that Dust to Dust was not his cup of tea -- he likened it to a "chick flick" on several occasions :lol:

@Citizenerased14 I never really told anyone that i'm writing anything, because i knew some of them would want to read it. Then I'd need to admit that it's full of sim pictures. My two detective stories (Regrets and Mistakes) are actually just simple stories, so if i took the pictures out, it would still make sense. I made up all the character names and town names, so nobody would know they are related to sims.

But then two days ago, i showed it to my bf. He actually wanted to read it for a long time. He said he liked it. I felt really awkward while he was reading it :D But he also likes graphic novels and comic books, so at the end ended up complimenting me on the illustrations :D