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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Oh! @MedleyMisty I DO consider dragons and aliens to be capable of being Literature! Octavia Butler's books alone prove that! I dare anyone to say her books aren't Literature.
I proudly will stand up to anyone and tell them that reading about dragons and aliens is one of the best thing in the world to read. It makes you much more open towards the rest of the world and can get inside you to tell you things about yourself and your culture that may feel too uncomfortable if you couldn't use the setting or characters to back away from it. So I wouldn't want to imply that genre fiction is 'lesser' than other fiction. I'm a cataloger though, so I'm always trying to find groups of similar things and put them together. I never use genre in a derogatory nature.
In my case I guess was thinking more of the straight up fiction shelves at bookstores. I rarely go there. Not because the books aren't good, but because they rarely have the triggers that get me excited about a book. Also I call my bookshelf at home with those books "literature" so I guess that's where I get the term. It's a tiny shelf with my Jane Austin, Dic.kens, and a couple more modern books that feel out of place if I stick them on my mystery or sf/f shelves. Perhaps it's a difference between capital 'L' Literature (the art of writing) and my lower case 'l' literature (aka fiction that isn't genre).
Perhaps I'm thinking more of the traditional classics when I say literature is more dense prose and poetic so it slows me down. It's mainly an artifact of a different time and different focus in those works. (Although China Mieville's prose is more poetic than most modern SF writes and he slows me down). I will admit I never managed to get more than halfway through Tolkein's trilogy until I started the audiobook. The songs and poems just bogged me down too much. As an audiobook? When someone actually sings the songs? Awesome.
Lastly for @AdamsEve1231 @everyone
How often do you post? How much is too much? What is your personal preference for reading new SimLit posts?
I try to post somthing on my blog M-F. It's not usually the same story though since I have lot going on. That's normally once a week or so. For reading new SimLit? It's awesome if I can binge on a bunch of chapters to start me off. But either way once I'm caught up with the author, I really don't care how often they post updates. Daily would probably be too hard to keep up with and I'd worry about burn out. I'm eagerly awaiting the next post in Distant Winters...and that probably won't be more than once a year. The longer it is between updates the more likely I'll read it the moment it comes out.
I proudly will stand up to anyone and tell them that reading about dragons and aliens is one of the best thing in the world to read. It makes you much more open towards the rest of the world and can get inside you to tell you things about yourself and your culture that may feel too uncomfortable if you couldn't use the setting or characters to back away from it. So I wouldn't want to imply that genre fiction is 'lesser' than other fiction. I'm a cataloger though, so I'm always trying to find groups of similar things and put them together. I never use genre in a derogatory nature.
In my case I guess was thinking more of the straight up fiction shelves at bookstores. I rarely go there. Not because the books aren't good, but because they rarely have the triggers that get me excited about a book. Also I call my bookshelf at home with those books "literature" so I guess that's where I get the term. It's a tiny shelf with my Jane Austin, Dic.kens, and a couple more modern books that feel out of place if I stick them on my mystery or sf/f shelves. Perhaps it's a difference between capital 'L' Literature (the art of writing) and my lower case 'l' literature (aka fiction that isn't genre).
Perhaps I'm thinking more of the traditional classics when I say literature is more dense prose and poetic so it slows me down. It's mainly an artifact of a different time and different focus in those works. (Although China Mieville's prose is more poetic than most modern SF writes and he slows me down). I will admit I never managed to get more than halfway through Tolkein's trilogy until I started the audiobook. The songs and poems just bogged me down too much. As an audiobook? When someone actually sings the songs? Awesome.
Lastly for @AdamsEve1231 @everyone
How often do you post? How much is too much? What is your personal preference for reading new SimLit posts?
I try to post somthing on my blog M-F. It's not usually the same story though since I have lot going on. That's normally once a week or so. For reading new SimLit? It's awesome if I can binge on a bunch of chapters to start me off. But either way once I'm caught up with the author, I really don't care how often they post updates. Daily would probably be too hard to keep up with and I'd worry about burn out. I'm eagerly awaiting the next post in Distant Winters...and that probably won't be more than once a year. The longer it is between updates the more likely I'll read it the moment it comes out.
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