Do you love SimLit?
Do you want a place to discuss fan favorites?
Do you like the idea of sharing what's on your SimLit reading list lately?
Then this discussion thread is for you! I was thinking recently about how much I love SimLit and I wanted a place to share my enthusiasm and passion for the game and subsequent stories. I started this idea on my blog, and then a fellow Simming friend recommended starting a thread on the forums.
Come and join us on once a month (or really any day) for SimLit parties!
- Talk about your favorite SimLit stories and share what it means to you
- Write a quick positive, uplifting review to encourage a fellow SimLit writer
- Found a great one-liner (or 2 or 3) that really resonates with you? Post it here and tell us why.
- Share a funny, inspirational, or meaningful screenshot or picture from someone's story or your own game.
- Share your experiences and observations with writing SimLit and playing the Sims and how this connects to/impacts your life
If you write a post on your blog/Simblr about any of the above topics, be sure to link here. We'd love to read these posts and support you! This is an outlet to celebrate creativity, storytelling, and the Sims whatever version(s) you might have.
If you would like to help organize/lead discussions, please let me know. Also I would love for someone to create a logo
Happy Simming!
March 2018 Celebrations of SimLit:
@swcheppes Super Dating@flutegirl_132's
Entangled Among the Branches@RainbowPlumbob's
Echo: The Lost Dancer @Adamseve1231 Livin' A Simmin' Life @LegacySims2017 Jungle Ruin
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#1In Celebration of SimLit
#2 Spooky, Scary, and Halloween-themed
#3 Wacky November Holidays
#4 Firsts and Favorites
#5 Love and Loss: a special Purple Day Remembrance
#6 Welcome to the World
#7 Openings/Beginnings
#8 What's On Your Reading List
#9 Sim Smiles
#10 What's On Your Reading List 2.0?
#11 "]Thankfulness and Gratitude
#12 Happy Holidays
# 13 Fresh Starts and New Beginnings
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@AdamsEve1231 I would like to share with you that reading your Colt Family Traitacy made my week last week! I spent many mornings in a row with this family, and the story made my day! I love the characters, and I love their strange lives and choices!
Reading can play such an important role in our lives! For me, it helps me balance out the way my brain works, pulling the chemistry into order and helping me feel relaxed, stimulated, and structured, all at once! And your story, being so well written, did this so well! What joy!
Thank you for writing it!
And I highly recommend this story to everyone who loves a good read with interesting, complex characters and a gripping, engaging plot!
Do you also play The Elder Scrolls Online? You can find me there as CathyTea, too!
Reading helps me relax too. On that note, I want to add that your line about a fireplace and a thick novel of Dickens in your Whisper story inspired me to take myself on a date, curl up by a fireplace in a coffee shop, and read my thick novel of O. Henry. For my graduate school class, I am required to take myself on "artist's dates" as part of an assignment to build in "moments of rest" in my busy life, to nurture my spirit and give myself some soul care, and to nurture the artist within in whatever artsy way I'd like - so this week I chose reading. I love this class btw. I'll probably share more about it later here and on my blog.
That being said, my "Artist Date" with myself was inspired by CathyTea's story.
Whisper is a delightful TS3 ISBI challenge story by CathyTea following the wonderful adventures of her Simself. I am always so refreshed after reading this story because Cathy reminds me to pay attention to the things that really matter, to nurture my inner thought life, and to stop and smell the roses, enjoying the little things in life. I'd highly recommend this story too.
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i like reading about kass .shes funny and entertaining . and i still have the image of her yelling at the fountain in my head . thank you for writing it. i also reccomend the kass stories to anyone who wants a entaining story with a few suprises.
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well i cry more. as you know i wasn't intending to write about divorce. and i guess the impact is it sometimes it takes me a few days and posts to get everything right ,and because i never experienced divorce personnally so i want to take more time and get things right.
Aww... that's awesome. I think it's good and healthy you let yourself cry. Sometimes I think people often get told not to cry and to shy away from painful subjects, but I love how so many Simmers are writing beautiful stories that move us to tears and are writing about painful and difficult things like divorce and trauma. I love how we take SimLit seriously because it has meaning and purpose to us and we hope others will share in that too.
I haven't personally been divorced, but I'm a child of divorced parents and let me just say all the stuff that you're writing @friendsfan367 is so authentic and the pain feels real and these are things that people need to talk about and deal with and admit to. The next part is under spoilers because I don't want to reveal details about the story for those who haven't read it yet.
How about others of you? How has SimLit inspired you? How has SimLit helped you process emotions? What stories have you resonated with and why?
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Right now, I'm incredibly inspired by @DeiraShadeweaver .... it's funny, because my Goofy Love inspired her to write her new TS4 legacy in a "Simmers' Commentary" rambling style, and her style is inspiring me to start a new section of my blog called "Author's Notes." I really miss having a place where I can share all the thoughts I have about life while Simming, the way I did in Goofy Love, so I'm hoping this new section does that for me...
I'm also very inspired by her other stories, too.
And I'm inspired by @Thymeless 's stories, also.
My list will get very long very soon, so I'm going to stop here for now (because I've got a chapter to post before bed) and then come back another time to talk about how @friendsfan367 inspires me and to also share about how SimLit helps me process emotions...
Great topics!
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your welcome kass is the benders 10 years from now what i mean is she went through what the benders are strugling with now and she now sees things differnt then the night it started. and i actually started reading kass before ayden went and shocked me. so without kass i might not have had the courage to try. hopefully that makes sense because i haven;t had coffee yet
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@MedleyMisty In the Valley of the Sun and Surreal Darkness
@RipuAncestor The Chrysanthemum Tango
@JLBDreamer Wild Hearts: Wilder Vampiracy
@InfraGreen Eight Cicadas
@rednenemon Racket Rotter Chronicles
@CitizenErased14 (Para) Normal Neighborhood
This Week's Mentioned Stories:
@CathyTea Shift and A Bookworm's Vadish
@Munterbacon My Life as a Zombie
@Thymeless You've Got Me Under Your Skin
@CitizenErased14 Dust to Dust and Ashes to Ashes
@Kittybit Love, Jacob
@Jes2G's Delicious Dishes & Dreams, Balderdash, Discovering Juliana, and Alyana Meets Her Match
@VIRTUALEE Dining Drama
@Adamseve1231 Supposed to Be
@xJojox Fine Lines
@Jellysimwich Life Is
@pammiechick Disorder
@MedleyMisty Because Death Would Not Stop for Seth
@Maladi777 The Heffner Legacy
@JoieWilder The Thoreau Legacy
@ThePlumbob The Bloomer Legacy
Others mentioned (but I don't know if they're on the forums):
Amandralynn - Hunt Family Legacy
SimStoriesbyRachel - Edith Prescott Mystery Series
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For today, I actually did write a SimLit celebration in conjunction with the Short Story Challenge. In it, I mention some of the stories I especially loved during the past year and three months of the challenge. A Bookworm's Vadish
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On the non-spooky side of things, I am absolutely crazy about @CathyTea s Shift. Not only is it based on a challenge that is new and interesting, but it's well written and I love how realistic Jenny's thoughts and views on life can be, despite being so young. I also didn't know the story would contain gender idenity, which was such a nice discovery. It's a topic that isn't necessarily touched on a lot, and I love that she's taking on such an important topic. I have a friend who's gender is fluctuating, so this is just such a great read to me. During a recent conversation, I learned that she takes her cues from in-game development, which I am also excited about. I love that it is not only Cathy's own writing and story telling that will let me get to know Jenny, but also actual game play. I just love love love Shift and wanted to spread some love.
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And hi @CitizenErased14 Looks like I will be paying your story a visit.
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Thanks for the shoutout.
Although I can't help but be worried, given the chapters you've chosen. If you think those chapters are scary,
Part One(Complete 9/24/16) /Part Two(on hold)/Short Stories(on hold)/Twinbrook 1996(on hold)/Ten Crystal Hearts (on hold)
I own the TS3 Store as of 12/11/16 (sort of. It's complicated)
In terms of spooky stories, @Thymeless wrote an excellent short story for Halloween that was well written and had wonderfully creepy screenshots! I'm on my phone so I don't have a link handy, but Thymeless, feel free to quote my comment and link to your story