I'd like to start out by saying thank you to all of my readers and visitors. It is for you that I write this story. Secondly, I want you to be able to contact me easily, if you so desire, for whatever reason you may have. Please contact me here. If you have questions about who I am, what I do, etc., please ask and I will add it to this page as a Q&A.
Next, I want to share my disappointment at finding very few Sims 3 stories that I enjoy reading. Perhaps I've not looked in the correct places or perhaps I'm too picky, but I am asking you to help me out. If you have a story or know of a story that you think is awesome, please share it with me. If I like it as much as you do, I will share it here. I love reading Sims 3 stories as much as writing/playing them.
Things that make a Sim 3 story good (in my humble opinion):
Next, I want to share my disappointment at finding very few Sims 3 stories that I enjoy reading. Perhaps I've not looked in the correct places or perhaps I'm too picky, but I am asking you to help me out. If you have a story or know of a story that you think is awesome, please share it with me. If I like it as much as you do, I will share it here. I love reading Sims 3 stories as much as writing/playing them.
Things that make a Sim 3 story good (in my humble opinion):
- Pictures! Lots of pictures from different angles and close up. It is boring to see all the pictures from the same zoomed-out default angle. I want to get attached to your Sims but I can't if I can barely see what they're doing or what they look like.
- They don't huge blocks of text. If you wonder what I mean, you can take my story as an example. If you are going to have a long dialog, for goodness' sake, take pictures of their expressions as they talk so I don't get bored. This is a visual story is it not?
- Not talking to your Sim and having them talk back to you as the "Watcher" or the writer. A lot of people attempt to make jokes this way and I personally find it not funny and annoying. I am more interested in you getting on with your story than your personal banter. I am sorry if I offend anyone, but I'm simply sharing my personal opinion.
- Go slow enough to enjoy each Sim in various life stages. I want to love your Sims as much as you do, but I can't get to know them well if they age up in every new post or you entirely skip ages with only a few comments about what happened.
- Generally speaking, no one wants to see detailed pictures of every outfit your Sim has or every room in your house. Let them be displayed in the story. Seeing a new room or outfit in a new post makes it all the more entertaining.
- Please make your stories easy to navigate with links to the next part. Sometimes I find a story I like but spend a lot of time trying to locate the archive and within the archive trying to find which part goes next. Help me out please; make it easy to read.
What else makes a good Sims 3 story? Let me know your opinions and I might add them here.