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

[morkmork.livejournal.com]

This was pretty cool and easy to miss, if you don't read your flist back far enough.
http://sentate.livejournal.com/4050.html

And, sorry, no help with the posing. I'm just realizing how much a noob I am at it. I need to look up some good tutorials.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow! Thank you for that. She's a real gem, isn't she? I haven't played Making Magic (yet), but I love this character, especially the way she'll try to get the Grim Reaper's autograph if he shows up on a lot.

I find the thing with posing is just how much time it takes to get anything that looks remotely like what you want. It's easier now with the ability to freeze sims and place them anywhere with OMSPs, but still a bit frustrating. It's why I'm not a very pose-heavy storyteller. I prefer to use straight up animations from the game in different contexts, but even that does take work and dedication. I feel so out of practice. :P