So that's what the story is about...

[strangetomato]

Overheard behind a bookcase in a house on Bay View Drive, Belladonna Cove:



"...True enough. Some things are just personal. But we had to do the right thing to safeguard everyone against that source of evil. I'd hate for Jocosta to have died in vain."

"Dear sister, how I miss her."

"And I as well."

"Well, nevermind. That's a story for another day."


"Yes. This one's about Bella. The mystery behind her disappearance."

"And Strangetown. Aliens. The sims who hate them and the sims who love them. Or those foolhardy enough to do both!"

"About death. And Death's son."

"And the terrible consequences of meddling with mortality. And about flowers. Don't forget flowers."

"I thought it was mostly about sex?"

"No, really it's about identity. And family. And love. Aren't all stories worth telling really about that when it all boils down to it?"

"Yes, but now we're getting ahead of ourselves, aren't we?"

"Yes, indeed, sister. All in good time."








Note: I was revisiting what I'd already written for the long-suffering Chapter Thirty-Five (part four) of Strangetown, Here We Come (the damn thing is actually written if I can ever get pics for it), and I'd forgotten all about this little snippet here with the sisters breaking the fourth wall to discuss what, if anything, the story is actually about.

What do you think? Did they nail it?

My vote's on "I thought it was mostly about sex?" ;)

Comments

[meetme2theriver.livejournal.com]

Hah! Sounds about right. :) I think it's REALLY really about telling the story of several different characters all at once, who are all linked together in one way or another.

I actually started rereading Strangetown, Here We Come earlier this summer/autumn, but I didn't finish. I should pick it back up. The idea of a new chapter is very exciting, if you indeed find the time to shoot the pictures...

[smjoshsims.livejournal.com]

I recently reread the story too! *flails* I agree with the ever flawless Cordials, they got it right. Although sex plays a very, very large role in it. :P

Did you ever share your Jocasta? She was so pretty.

[myrrhcat.livejournal.com]

Wow, I also just finished rereading S,HWC... and apparently everyone else did too... it must be fate.

I'm really excited to see this! I love this story so much, and I'm so glad to see that it's not dead.

[peni griffin (from livejournal.com)]

You don't absolutely have to have pictures, you know; or if you do need some to make your points, you don't need to have as many as you have in the past. Most simbloggers use too many of them, and the weight of getting and organizing them slows them down and eventually prevents them from getting through the long, hard middle of the story, which is hard enough to do (believe me!) in text-only.

You write the story the way you need to write it; but you're allowed to go around the impenetrable thicket, or fly over it on the broomstick, instead of chopping your way straight through it. And if you can't experiment here, where can you do it?