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

[skellington7d.livejournal.com]

Welcome home! Not much gossip other than that the secrets have been really wanky lately.

As for CC, this is shameless self-promotion, but I made some Servo eye defaults that I'm very proud of: http://skellington7d.livejournal.com/29530.html

[xel-squirgle-ox.livejournal.com]

As skellington said, just a lot of wank has been happening in simsecrets... More than I've seen in quite some time.

Hm, Faerie you say? If you ever need any more elves (err, faeries) I might be able to help you with that. :P

Anyway, It's great to see that you've finally gotten your inspiration back! :D

[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.