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I'm Back to Writing :]
Hello fellow simmers, missed me? Because I missed you! I've been away due to school and an itsy bitsy scare-a-thon from the amount of sims 3 stories in the storytelling section. I wasn't sure if my sims 2 stories would be much appreciated as before, but that was a thing of the past because I'm writing something new again.
Yes, new. You all know me and my countless hard drive crashes.
Yes, there shall be gay sims. Although I don't intend it, my game does it for me. You know that boolprop cheat that lets you know what gender they prefer for a partner? That. Whenever I use that on my male sims they always say:
"My default gender preferance is for Males."
I swear. That notice bubble never failed to crack me up because there was always a trend! If my male sim looks effeminite (or even not, just ridiculously handsome in a manly way) they're automatically gay. The rest - like Goopy GilsCarbo, were straight XD
Anyways, this new project is...short. I'll make sure its's short! I'll make sure I finish this thing! No more over 10 chapters! No! That's ridiculous! I don't even know how I got that far with Lorel----*breaks down and cries* OMG we were so near to the end!
Let's hope we don't have any more crashes!
So wish me luck :]
-Zen
Why I read serialized novels only after the last part has been released
I guess it has happened to everyone at least once. Reading a fantastic, absorbing book or watching a great movie that ends with a "to be continued". But the next installment isn't available yet. So you have to wait. Impatiently. For an increasingly frustrating long time. For me, it's like starting to count the days until christmas 6 months in advance. That's why I shy away from serialized stories if I know they are not completed yet. When Robert Jordan died and the mourning faded away I took a sad look at my 13 or so books of his "Wheel of Time" series I already owned. I hadn't started to read them yet, because I knew the story (which was initially promised to be spread over just 12 books) hadn't been finished - and now it seemed the story would never become so. What a relief I hadn't started to read them. Later it turned out a Brandon Sanderson (whom I had never heard of, shame over me) took the responsibility to write the last chapters. So this story about my "Wheel of Time" book collection will have a happy ending. But it was a close call. I won't bother you with recollections of some truly-never-finished-but-started-to-read stories in my past. I just want to point out what I am talking about.
I mention it because our Sims story section has the same problem, albeit to a much lesser degree, since the stories are shorter and usually all chapters are released over a few weeks or months time. Reading them doesn't take a lot of time, too, so I read most of the stories without any concerns regarding their state of being unfinished yet. BTW I am currently way behind with reading, because I don't read many stories at all these days (due to short-term job reasons), but that's a different topic.
Still, there are some excellent writers at TSR that do write long stories. And usually I "take the risk" and start to read them immediately (except at the moment), because I trust them to complete the story and I like their way of writing so much. Plus I think they know about their responsibility as authors to finish their stories, even if this is an unfair deal (because their counterpart, the reader, doesn't have a similar responsibility and much much less work than the writer creating the story).
So I know about the pain of a reader waiting for a continuation and about the responsibility of a storywriter. Nonetheless I took a try myself at writing a very long serialized novel. And here we are at my feeling of guiltyness: My Sparklewood story is still uncompleted for some months now. Unfortunately, I haven't found the time to finish it - yet. The outline of the story is done, but the stage bulding, picture shooting and dialogue writing is far from being completed. This blog entry is my way to say sorry for the waiting. Sparklewood is still in the making and I have still all intentions to finish it. But sometimes life's priorities prevent us from doing the fun things. So please bear with me. Or start reading Sparklewood only after I have published the last part :)
I followed a Ghost Today!
I wanted to see where they go...instead of hanging around in the graveyard, they all seem to jump in their (not so ghostly) cars and speed off somewhere leaving my sim wondering how they are supposed to take pictures of more than one ghost at a time..so today I followed one..Basil somebody or other..in his car he got and sped off towards the town centre of SV..drove on past and parked up at an empty Sims house..obviously nobody lived there so I wasn't suprised when he didn't ring the door bell, but he did go round the back of the house and disappeared inside...does this mean that is where he used to live until EA bumped him off?
If I moved a sim into that house would they meet him or would he no longer go to the house? Hmm, questions, questions....
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Update Shadow Fix on Candle and Glass Five Mesh 
Kim
Hope you guys enjoy my newest house, that will be comming out soon! Its made for my good friend kim, hope you guys like it!
-2 bedrooms
-4 bathrooms
Hi again..
No one really reads this, but I felt I should blog anyway.
So...Hiya! I'm back from my none post-y hideout- but there will be no more Magic Schmagic. Sorry. I've started this new story which is mostly written already- in the Sims 3. So, keep an eye out
Bye!
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