Home again, and a storytelling question.

[strangetomato]

I'm back from my holidays. Did I miss anything exciting in the sims community? Any juicy gossip or amazing cc I should check out? I've already been catching up on the GoS Xmas in July posts—Wow! So much awesome. If there's anything you'd like me to check out from the past little while, please do tell.

I've been grappling with my next story update again. I loaded up a lot I've been working on, a scene in Faerie using that lot with the grain silo/tower in the field, but I got discouraged when half the plant cc I had placed was showing up as basegame replacement objects. I guess I'll need to relocate an older downloads folder with more plants in it until I finish that chapter. While I'm at it, does anyone have any other faery forest appropriate cc they'd like to recommend?

I'm finding I really don't have any patience for building sets anymore. The writing side of it seems to be coming back to me, but working with the game to make the scenes is harder. In my last short story, I avoided it altogether by going more abstract with them and taking the background entirely out, but I can't do that for the story proper. It's strange. I really want to work on the story, but the idea of setting up the images is just exhausting right now. Has anyone else gone through spells like that? Any tips?

Comments

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

You think? I thought it was about the same. Maybe there's just been a lull for a while, with the lower secret counts, and now it's up again. I remember there being some crazy drama in the past (remember all the medleymisty stuff, for example?), so I don't think it's anything new. :P

Ah, thanks for pointing those out to me! :D I'm really trying not to add too many sims to the uberhood, but these will be great for my legacy hood. And I could always use them in the version of Veronaville that I'm using as a set. I love all the new ear shapes! Did you base those off fantasyrogue's template?

Or half back, anyway. ^_^ I feel like I really WANT to get back into it, but another side of me just drags. It's hard to explain. I think about the story all the time lately, but when I sit down to work at the game I just feel like my head is full of bees, if that makes any sense at all. :P

Thanks for the support. It's nice to hear from you.

[xel-squirgle-ox.livejournal.com]

I think the last time I've seen this much wank within the community was I don't know... About a year or 2 ago? In any case, while I don't like the unnecessary drama I'm glad that the sims community still seems alive and well. I consider simsecret a barometer of some sort- calculating how lively the sims community has been during the week. For a while, it seemed kind of dead with less secrets and comments. I was afraid that the community as a whole would become a ghost town.

You're welcome! ^_^
And yeah, they're based off of 2 pointy-eared sims by Fantasyroge.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

That's very true. Lots of jealousy and bickering = a thriving sims community. XD It's sad, but very true.

You've done a great job on them. ^_^