Starting again...
This is not sims-related, so don't panic. The Forests, Knights, and Bayberrys are all just fine.
I'm sticking it under a cut because I ramble on a bit...and since it hasn't got anything really to do with sims and I'm guessing that some people might not want my rambling to clutter up their friends pages when all they wanted were my sims.
There is a story that came to birth from a game a little girl I was babysitting and I were playing, that, amazingly, actually had a decent plotline. We began writing it, but it was rubbish. The little girl, who was eleven at the time, only seemed to want to write slang and steal bits from other stories she'd read. I came up with the plan of incorporating it into a world that my brother has designed for an epic (which will be awesome, if he ever gets around to writing it)...only our story was written in a very silly fashion, even though the plotline was serious. I rewrote the first chapter entirely, as ... let's just say I would NEVER inflict the original on someone. A few nights ago, only my brother-who-writes and I were home, and I was simming in the kitchen while I waited for dinner to bake, and he came in to tell me this new aspect of his world. It was fascinating, and, of course, I got distracted from my simming (so there is about an hour of sim-time in the next night update that I am going to say, "I honestly have no idea what happened, but I'm guessing...") But our conversation had the good influence of my opening up the old story and rereading it. It seriously needs work. The tone is very inconsistant. Silly and girly in some places, dark in others, and while that works for some stories, it feels like this was written by two or three different people. Which is kinda was. There was Tallulah (the little girl), me-aged-seventeen-under-the-influence-of-Tallulah, and then the me of last year.
So I am ditching it and starting over. Oh, the joys of starting over and ditching about 11,000 word worth of work! /scarcasm.
But really, it is good. I haven't really been able to write much since November last year, when I got burnt out from working, going to school full time, and NaNo-ing.
Since this is a sims journal, I can see you wondering why in the world I'm going on about all this here. It is because I'm getting more support from my simming friends then my other friends (not counting the friend that is both simming and other <3), which is really quite sad...but I will forgive them.
And it has been storming really bad. I mean to the point where the thunderclaps were SHAKING the house. *does not like thunder, hides under blanket* But it seems to have stopped for now, so maybe I can get something done. The power was out all morning.
I'm sticking it under a cut because I ramble on a bit...and since it hasn't got anything really to do with sims and I'm guessing that some people might not want my rambling to clutter up their friends pages when all they wanted were my sims.
There is a story that came to birth from a game a little girl I was babysitting and I were playing, that, amazingly, actually had a decent plotline. We began writing it, but it was rubbish. The little girl, who was eleven at the time, only seemed to want to write slang and steal bits from other stories she'd read. I came up with the plan of incorporating it into a world that my brother has designed for an epic (which will be awesome, if he ever gets around to writing it)...only our story was written in a very silly fashion, even though the plotline was serious. I rewrote the first chapter entirely, as ... let's just say I would NEVER inflict the original on someone. A few nights ago, only my brother-who-writes and I were home, and I was simming in the kitchen while I waited for dinner to bake, and he came in to tell me this new aspect of his world. It was fascinating, and, of course, I got distracted from my simming (so there is about an hour of sim-time in the next night update that I am going to say, "I honestly have no idea what happened, but I'm guessing...") But our conversation had the good influence of my opening up the old story and rereading it. It seriously needs work. The tone is very inconsistant. Silly and girly in some places, dark in others, and while that works for some stories, it feels like this was written by two or three different people. Which is kinda was. There was Tallulah (the little girl), me-aged-seventeen-under-the-influence-of-Tallulah, and then the me of last year.
So I am ditching it and starting over. Oh, the joys of starting over and ditching about 11,000 word worth of work! /scarcasm.
But really, it is good. I haven't really been able to write much since November last year, when I got burnt out from working, going to school full time, and NaNo-ing.
Since this is a sims journal, I can see you wondering why in the world I'm going on about all this here. It is because I'm getting more support from my simming friends then my other friends (not counting the friend that is both simming and other <3), which is really quite sad...but I will forgive them.
And it has been storming really bad. I mean to the point where the thunderclaps were SHAKING the house. *does not like thunder, hides under blanket* But it seems to have stopped for now, so maybe I can get something done. The power was out all morning.