@Bugsie2016 oh, wow, that's cool. We're not far behind you, I think.
@everyone so about to begin my adventure with my fellow hobbits. So, see you all briefly next week and the week after for an update, including a Christmas special, and in the new year for regular chatting and reading. hope you all have a wonderful holiday, and, for those who celebrate Christmas, hope you have a great Christmas. All the best for the new year.
Simscognito.
Happy Christmas, Cog! I love you very much and thank you for spreading so much cheer around here! Have a lovely adventure with the Hobbits! Listen to everything Gandalf says! He knows best!
@Bugsie2016 oh, wow, that's cool. We're not far behind you, I think.
@everyone so about to begin my adventure with my fellow hobbits. So, see you all briefly next week and the week after for an update, including a Christmas special, and in the new year for regular chatting and reading. hope you all have a wonderful holiday, and, for those who celebrate Christmas, hope you have a great Christmas. All the best for the new year.
Simscognito.
Happy Christmas, Cog! I love you very much and thank you for spreading so much cheer around here! Have a lovely adventure with the Hobbits! Listen to everything Gandalf says! He knows best!
in addition to dogacy i came up with cog. it was easier to spell than incognito.
i am suprised you know what a hobbit is usually you lean toward artsy movies. well you know what i mean.
Hi all. So umm… A small while back I posted here that I’m scared of sharing my writing, and that hasn’t changed. I still think my writing is bad with lots of holes and jumping around, weirdly paced, doesn’t make logical sense, kinda pretentious even though I hate pretentiousness, and some posts are downright cringey. (I blame my founder. He’s an awkward romantic.)
But I’ve come to the realization that if I don’t share, I’ll never get any better. I’ll hate my writing later just as much as I hate it now, and there will never be a ‘good’ time to start showing it to others. So, I’m going to suck it up and share.
Anyone who has the time, I would very much appreciate it if you could take a look at my story, https://wintersalchemy.wordpress.com/
Even though I know I’ll still have almost zero visitors, I’m still nervous hehe… Small steps.
Any comment is welcome. Good comments, bad comments, straight-out diss comments… I take all!
Thank you everyone, have a nice day.
@rednenemon Hehe yeah the point is that it's badly written with no screenshots to make up for it xD
I've been reading your story, and yeah it's good to know people can write SimLit without screenshots! It was inspiring, for me, anyway.
Hi all. So umm… A small while back I posted here that I’m scared of sharing my writing, and that hasn’t changed. I still think my writing is bad with lots of holes and jumping around, weirdly paced, doesn’t make logical sense, kinda pretentious even though I hate pretentiousness, and some posts are downright cringey. (I blame my founder. He’s an awkward romantic.)
But I’ve come to the realization that if I don’t share, I’ll never get any better. I’ll hate my writing later just as much as I hate it now, and there will never be a ‘good’ time to start showing it to others. So, I’m going to suck it up and share.
Anyone who has the time, I would very much appreciate it if you could take a look at my story, https://wintersalchemy.wordpress.com/
Even though I know I’ll still have almost zero visitors, I’m still nervous hehe… Small steps.
Any comment is welcome. Good comments, bad comments, straight-out diss comments… I take all!
Thank you everyone, have a nice day.
@Bugsie2016 oh, wow, that's cool. We're not far behind you, I think.
@everyone so about to begin my adventure with my fellow hobbits. So, see you all briefly next week and the week after for an update, including a Christmas special, and in the new year for regular chatting and reading. hope you all have a wonderful holiday, and, for those who celebrate Christmas, hope you have a great Christmas. All the best for the new year.
Simscognito.
Happy Christmas, Cog! I love you very much and thank you for spreading so much cheer around here! Have a lovely adventure with the Hobbits! Listen to everything Gandalf says! He knows best!
in addition to dogacy i came up with cog. it was easier to spell than incognito.
i am suprised you know what a hobbit is usually you lean toward artsy movies. well you know what i mean.
It was a book first, and one I grew up with! My dad read it to us.
@chalicen Guess what? I'm at your blog and I just read the intro, and I love it already! I am a huge fan of pictureless SimLit! And I really like your funny, endearing tone that you establish in the intro...
OK. Off to read! Don't be too nervous! I'm heading in there already in love!
@chalicen Guess what? I'm at your blog and I just read the intro, and I love it already! I am a huge fan of pictureless SimLit! And I really like your funny, endearing tone that you establish in the intro...
OK. Off to read! Don't be too nervous! I'm heading in there already in love!
wait don't go yet. pulls collar. i can't find it.
since your probabably going to confuse me tomorrow help me tonight.
just playing the odds 50/50 chance of not being confused. i'm a little depressed because the week went by so fast tomoorrow is saturday.
@Bugsie2016 oh, wow, that's cool. We're not far behind you, I think.
@everyone so about to begin my adventure with my fellow hobbits. So, see you all briefly next week and the week after for an update, including a Christmas special, and in the new year for regular chatting and reading. hope you all have a wonderful holiday, and, for those who celebrate Christmas, hope you have a great Christmas. All the best for the new year.
Simscognito.
Happy Christmas, Cog! I love you very much and thank you for spreading so much cheer around here! Have a lovely adventure with the Hobbits! Listen to everything Gandalf says! He knows best!
in addition to dogacy i came up with cog. it was easier to spell than incognito.
i am suprised you know what a hobbit is usually you lean toward artsy movies. well you know what i mean.
It was a book first, and one I grew up with! My dad read it to us.
Hi all. So umm… A small while back I posted here that I’m scared of sharing my writing, and that hasn’t changed. I still think my writing is bad with lots of holes and jumping around, weirdly paced, doesn’t make logical sense, kinda pretentious even though I hate pretentiousness, and some posts are downright cringey. (I blame my founder. He’s an awkward romantic.)
But I’ve come to the realization that if I don’t share, I’ll never get any better. I’ll hate my writing later just as much as I hate it now, and there will never be a ‘good’ time to start showing it to others. So, I’m going to suck it up and share.
Anyone who has the time, I would very much appreciate it if you could take a look at my story, https://wintersalchemy.wordpress.com/
Even though I know I’ll still have almost zero visitors, I’m still nervous hehe… Small steps.
Any comment is welcome. Good comments, bad comments, straight-out diss comments… I take all!
Thank you everyone, have a nice day.
@chalicen Aww... I understand your nervousness because I am a shy one myself sometimes when sharing my talents, but with little baby steps you'll feel more and more comfortable doing so. Trust yourself.
And I don't think you give yourself enough credit with this story because I read the first 3 chapters and it's super cute!!! Very well written, excellent dialogue! Really. I want more (I love a good romance novel) and may just finish reading it tonight.
Is it still a work in progress?
But yeah it's really good, even with the lack of screenshots. But that's ok because it allows the reader to picture it all in their own way and in some ways that's more enjoyable.
Hi all. So umm… A small while back I posted here that I’m scared of sharing my writing, and that hasn’t changed. I still think my writing is bad with lots of holes and jumping around, weirdly paced, doesn’t make logical sense, kinda pretentious even though I hate pretentiousness, and some posts are downright cringey. (I blame my founder. He’s an awkward romantic.)
But I’ve come to the realization that if I don’t share, I’ll never get any better. I’ll hate my writing later just as much as I hate it now, and there will never be a ‘good’ time to start showing it to others. So, I’m going to suck it up and share.
Anyone who has the time, I would very much appreciate it if you could take a look at my story, https://wintersalchemy.wordpress.com/
Even though I know I’ll still have almost zero visitors, I’m still nervous hehe… Small steps.
Any comment is welcome. Good comments, bad comments, straight-out diss comments… I take all!
Thank you everyone, have a nice day.
@RipuAncestor : You will love this! Grim's in it! In several incarnations!
@For_Eorzea : You will love this! Awesome world-building! Fairy tale type feel! Really neat kind of magical old world setting...
@Xantheanmar : I think you'll love this, too! The narrative pacing and the use of time lapses to advance the story remind me of your work.
@chalicen You're so brave to share it. Thank you! I just had a really, really, really fun and happy half hour reading it!
@emorrill Thank you very much. Your support means a lot to me, as does the comment I started reading your Quantum Leap story, and I love it so far! Always looking forward to more.
@CathyTea I have no words to express how grateful I am, first for setting up this thread, and second for taking your time to read my writing. I'm so glad you enjoyed it. I hope you don't mind me going through your comments and replying to them, I love replying to comments! Heck, if I hadn't shared, I wouldn't have been able to reply to comments.
@emorrill Thank you very much. Your support means a lot to me, as does the comment I started reading your Quantum Leap story, and I love it so far! Always looking forward to more.
@CathyTea I have no words to express how grateful I am, first for setting up this thread, and second for taking your time to read my writing. I'm so glad you enjoyed it. I hope you don't mind me going through your comments and replying to them, I love replying to comments! Heck, if I hadn't shared, I wouldn't have been able to reply to comments.
Again, thank you so much everyone.
I love when people reply to my comments!
I love to comment--one thing you should know, though: I feel that I have two commenting personae. One is when I'm on my computer, because I've got a keyboard so I can write as quickly as I think, easily. The other is when I read on my mobile device, which has the tiny squirrel keyboards, and then, I am so finger-tied that sometimes, I just let autocorrect write my comments for me... So if I sometimes seem a little... off, that's what's going on!
Also, sometimes after a few exchanges through comments, I like to bring the conversation over here to the forums, too, so others can join in or so that we can have a bit more extended conversation. We can always carry on through PM if you don't want to have the conversation on this thread or on your own story thread.
@emorrill Thank you very much. Your support means a lot to me, as does the comment I started reading your Quantum Leap story, and I love it so far! Always looking forward to more.
@CathyTea I have no words to express how grateful I am, first for setting up this thread, and second for taking your time to read my writing. I'm so glad you enjoyed it. I hope you don't mind me going through your comments and replying to them, I love replying to comments! Heck, if I hadn't shared, I wouldn't have been able to reply to comments.
Again, thank you so much everyone.
I love when people reply to my comments!
I love to comment--one thing you should know, though: I feel that I have two commenting personae. One is when I'm on my computer, because I've got a keyboard so I can write as quickly as I think, easily. The other is when I read on my mobile device, which has the tiny squirrel keyboards, and then, I am so finger-tied that sometimes, I just let autocorrect write my comments for me... So if I sometimes seem a little... off, that's what's going on!
Also, sometimes after a few exchanges through comments, I like to bring the conversation over here to the forums, too, so others can join in or so that we can have a bit more extended conversation. We can always carry on through PM if you don't want to have the conversation on this thread or on your own story thread.
Does anyone ever deliberately change the order you took screenshots in so they better fit the flow of the story you want to tell?
Also how do I get mine to come out a consistent size after being cropped on imgur? Seems like some end up long and narrow, while others expand to their original size after being cropped.
Does anyone ever deliberately change the order you took screenshots in so they better fit the flow of the story you want to tell?
Also how do I get mine to come out a consistent size after being cropped on imgur? Seems like some end up long and narrow, while others expand to their original size after being cropped.
Does anyone ever deliberately change the order you took screenshots in so they better fit the flow of the story you want to tell?
Also how do I get mine to come out a consistent size after being cropped on imgur? Seems like some end up long and narrow, while others expand to their original size after being cropped.
Even though my Grace series is gameplay driven, I change up the order all the time. I even go as far as saving entire scenes for a later chapter if it didn't quite fit. Sometimes I go back in game, stage the scene again, and take extra screenshots if the angle wasn't quite right or someone was pulling a weird face in it.
As for photo sizes, oh my gosh this is a problem for me. For the most part I freehand crop my screens to be a 5x7 photo sort of shape.
(Someone else can probably explain this much better, but here it goes!) If you want them all to be exactly the same size, I'd recommend editing the canvas size in whatever program you use after you crop the image, or start by creating a specific sized blank canvas and pasting your screenshot into it, letting the edges of the canvas crop your photo for you by moving the center of the screenshot into place.
Anyone who has the time, I would very much appreciate it if you could take a look at my story, https://wintersalchemy.wordpress.com/
Even though I know I’ll still have almost zero visitors, I’m still nervous hehe… Small steps.
Any comment is welcome. Good comments, bad comments, straight-out diss comments… I take all!
Thank you everyone, have a nice day.
@chalicen I'm overwhelmed with reading right now and have tried so SO hard these past few weeks not to add to my reading list but...you break me. I mean that in a completely complimentary way! I've only read the first chapter and I am so delighted and enchanted by your writing. You're on my list, and I can't wait til I have time to dive through all the chapters!
Does anyone ever deliberately change the order you took screenshots in so they better fit the flow of the story you want to tell?
Also how do I get mine to come out a consistent size after being cropped on imgur? Seems like some end up long and narrow, while others expand to their original size after being cropped.
To get the sizes consistent, I resize each image. On PC, you can use Paint. On Mac, you can use that default image viewer. For my blog, 660px width works really well. On my old laptop, that resulted in 402 height. On my new laptop, that results in 348 height (or something like that). I like .png, too, for it looks crisper with my set-up than .jpg.
If you need more detailed instructions, I'm happy to share.
As for place the pics in different orders, I'll do this as long as I can maintain continuity--the time of day, wardrobe, relationships, and so on have to be consistent. Sims do look older as time passes, even within an age-setting. For example, a young adult Sim who is a day or two away from becoming an adult looks older than a young adult who just became a young adult. Weight fluctuates, too, and muscle mass, so I'm careful about consistency there. With relationships, Sims' body language and facial expressions reflect the current state of the relationship (including the relationship history), so I don't like to mess too much with the order for interaction shots, since facial expressions/body language will be change as time passes.
I also have an idea that as the Sim's AI develops, the Sim begins to hold herself differently and use different expressions, so I try to maintain consistency with that, too.
Of course, this all relates to Sims who are being played and developed in the game. When one's posing, with aging off, and the Sims don't have much or any autonomy, none of this would really apply.
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You are absolutely known for and admired for tea! The Western world owes its tea-drinking to the British Empire!
Do you also play The Elder Scrolls Online? You can find me there as CathyTea, too!
Happy Christmas, Cog! I love you very much and thank you for spreading so much cheer around here! Have a lovely adventure with the Hobbits! Listen to everything Gandalf says! He knows best!
Do you also play The Elder Scrolls Online? You can find me there as CathyTea, too!
in addition to dogacy i came up with cog. it was easier to spell than incognito.
i am suprised you know what a hobbit is usually you lean toward artsy movies. well you know what i mean.
But I’ve come to the realization that if I don’t share, I’ll never get any better. I’ll hate my writing later just as much as I hate it now, and there will never be a ‘good’ time to start showing it to others. So, I’m going to suck it up and share.
Anyone who has the time, I would very much appreciate it if you could take a look at my story,
https://wintersalchemy.wordpress.com/
Even though I know I’ll still have almost zero visitors, I’m still nervous hehe… Small steps.
Any comment is welcome. Good comments, bad comments, straight-out diss comments… I take all!
Thank you everyone, have a nice day.
Winter's Alchemy | Britechester After Dark - Forum thread
I took a peek at the site and a chapter or two, and...
Well, you wouldn't be the first one to write a Sims story with no screenshots.
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)
I've been reading your story, and yeah it's good to know people can write SimLit without screenshots! It was inspiring, for me, anyway.
Winter's Alchemy | Britechester After Dark - Forum thread
I have read it all and I love it very very much.
Winter's Alchemy | Britechester After Dark - Forum thread
It was a quick read and very easy to get caught up on.
It was a book first, and one I grew up with!
Do you also play The Elder Scrolls Online? You can find me there as CathyTea, too!
OK. Off to read! Don't be too nervous! I'm heading in there already in love!
Do you also play The Elder Scrolls Online? You can find me there as CathyTea, too!
wait don't go yet. pulls collar. i can't find it.
since your probabably going to confuse me tomorrow help me tonight.
just playing the odds 50/50 chance of not being confused. i'm a little depressed because the week went by so fast tomoorrow is saturday.
i know its a book..
@chalicen Aww... I understand your nervousness because I am a shy one myself sometimes when sharing my talents, but with little baby steps you'll feel more and more comfortable doing so. Trust yourself.
And I don't think you give yourself enough credit with this story because I read the first 3 chapters and it's super cute!!! Very well written, excellent dialogue!
Is it still a work in progress?
But yeah it's really good, even with the lack of screenshots.
Keep up the great work!
@RipuAncestor : You will love this! Grim's in it! In several incarnations!
@For_Eorzea : You will love this! Awesome world-building! Fairy tale type feel! Really neat kind of magical old world setting...
@Xantheanmar : I think you'll love this, too! The narrative pacing and the use of time lapses to advance the story remind me of your work.
@chalicen You're so brave to share it. Thank you! I just had a really, really, really fun and happy half hour reading it!
Do you also play The Elder Scrolls Online? You can find me there as CathyTea, too!
@CathyTea I have no words to express how grateful I am, first for setting up this thread, and second for taking your time to read my writing. I'm so glad you enjoyed it. I hope you don't mind me going through your comments and replying to them, I love replying to comments! Heck, if I hadn't shared, I wouldn't have been able to reply to comments.
Again, thank you so much everyone.
Winter's Alchemy | Britechester After Dark - Forum thread
I love when people reply to my comments!
I love to comment--one thing you should know, though: I feel that I have two commenting personae. One is when I'm on my computer, because I've got a keyboard so I can write as quickly as I think, easily. The other is when I read on my mobile device, which has the tiny squirrel keyboards, and then, I am so finger-tied that sometimes, I just let autocorrect write my comments for me... So if I sometimes seem a little... off, that's what's going on!
Also, sometimes after a few exchanges through comments, I like to bring the conversation over here to the forums, too, so others can join in or so that we can have a bit more extended conversation. We can always carry on through PM if you don't want to have the conversation on this thread or on your own story thread.
Do you also play The Elder Scrolls Online? You can find me there as CathyTea, too!
but i proved a squirrel can type.
And you've got the pics to prove it!
Do you also play The Elder Scrolls Online? You can find me there as CathyTea, too!
i do.
Also how do I get mine to come out a consistent size after being cropped on imgur? Seems like some end up long and narrow, while others expand to their original size after being cropped.
Are the dimensions the same?
Even though my Grace series is gameplay driven, I change up the order all the time. I even go as far as saving entire scenes for a later chapter if it didn't quite fit. Sometimes I go back in game, stage the scene again, and take extra screenshots if the angle wasn't quite right or someone was pulling a weird face in it.
As for photo sizes, oh my gosh this is a problem for me. For the most part I freehand crop my screens to be a 5x7 photo sort of shape.
(Someone else can probably explain this much better, but here it goes!) If you want them all to be exactly the same size, I'd recommend editing the canvas size in whatever program you use after you crop the image, or start by creating a specific sized blank canvas and pasting your screenshot into it, letting the edges of the canvas crop your photo for you by moving the center of the screenshot into place.
My hubby causes chaos in How To Live With Grace - - Pine Point tells Miranda Cole's survival tale - - Criminals build legacies in Glassbolt Prison
@chalicen I'm overwhelmed with reading right now and have tried so SO hard these past few weeks not to add to my reading list but...you break me. I mean that in a completely complimentary way! I've only read the first chapter and I am so delighted and enchanted by your writing. You're on my list, and I can't wait til I have time to dive through all the chapters!
My hubby causes chaos in How To Live With Grace - - Pine Point tells Miranda Cole's survival tale - - Criminals build legacies in Glassbolt Prison
To get the sizes consistent, I resize each image. On PC, you can use Paint. On Mac, you can use that default image viewer. For my blog, 660px width works really well. On my old laptop, that resulted in 402 height. On my new laptop, that results in 348 height (or something like that). I like .png, too, for it looks crisper with my set-up than .jpg.
If you need more detailed instructions, I'm happy to share.
As for place the pics in different orders, I'll do this as long as I can maintain continuity--the time of day, wardrobe, relationships, and so on have to be consistent. Sims do look older as time passes, even within an age-setting. For example, a young adult Sim who is a day or two away from becoming an adult looks older than a young adult who just became a young adult. Weight fluctuates, too, and muscle mass, so I'm careful about consistency there. With relationships, Sims' body language and facial expressions reflect the current state of the relationship (including the relationship history), so I don't like to mess too much with the order for interaction shots, since facial expressions/body language will be change as time passes.
I also have an idea that as the Sim's AI develops, the Sim begins to hold herself differently and use different expressions, so I try to maintain consistency with that, too.
Of course, this all relates to Sims who are being played and developed in the game. When one's posing, with aging off, and the Sims don't have much or any autonomy, none of this would really apply.
Do you also play The Elder Scrolls Online? You can find me there as CathyTea, too!