As you'll see here in a minute, I've decided to separate the postings of my story Sims and my playing Sims. Because I'm flighty and indecisive like that, lol!
But really it's because the storylines for my play Sims are being held up by the lethargic storylines of my SSA sims. As Sims, they all live in the same world, but I'll be posting about the SSA bunch over there, with proper stories and stuff, and the Alt-LH set will get picspam and gameplay updates over here. The SSA Sims may get picspam updates over here too if they're not going to be used for the story. You'll likely see some of the Sims in the background of others too, since they technically all live in the same world, same universe, same timeline and stuff.
I just know that I want one of these neighborhoods to actually make some progress for once! So this time I'm keeping my book storylines vs. blog storylines tightly checked. No stray stories, no tangents, no added storylines. Because you know, I've got these other play Sims to blog about too. And I thought I'd work on bringing my nerdy resident databases over here too.
Anyway, so that's what's up! Carrying on! :)
Showing posts with label idle chatter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label idle chatter. Show all posts
how to read the history of the entire universe...?
Topped off my story pics yesterday, and the first draft of the story. Should be able to start polishing it up tonight! :)
Also author's note and newbie's guide are updated! I also numbered up the seasons on the round pages. We're currently working through season 12! Lot of story here! :o
And on the topic of all that story... I've been doing a lot of thinking about the story archives lately. And when I have a little more free time this summer, I think I'd like to finally finish cleaning up the older posts, fixing the compressed pictures, maybe rewriting some of the very old stuff. And I was also considering maybe moving all of my gameplay stuff over to this blog.
The reason being, soon enough people aren't going to be playing TS2 anymore. (I know, I know, we all swear we're going to love it forever, lol!) But the point is that some day those gameplay notes aren't going to mean much to anyone anymore. And also, I think all the gameplay notes probably scare off some more mainstream readers (meaning people who don't play Sims) - when really, this story isn't even about the gameplay anymore anyway. So in short, I'd still like the story to stand on its own, and to be readable as a story for a long time to come! As long as I'm around to pay my hosting fees! ;)
So I have a few questions for you (mostly for people who *haven't* followed the story from the beginning):
- When you first started reading, how did you catch up on the story? Did you use the "newer post" links on the bottom? (Those are kind of hard to see, underneath the comments like they are.) Or did you use the story links on the round page? Did you just drop straight in and read backwards as necessary? Or some other means of catching up?
- As you were catching up, did you read the comments, or did you just skip straight to the next story?
- Are the round pages useful at all?
- Do you think a new reader would prefer a "next chapter" link in a more obvious place, like at the end of the post, before the comments? (OMG, that would be a lot of work, lol! But I would do it if I knew people would actually use them.)
- If you were just reading for story, did you find the gameplay notes, author's notes, or outtakes annoying or cluttery? And if so, how did you navigate around them?
And finally - do you think it's easy enough for a new reader to navigate through this story? And is there anything I can do to make it easier?
Also author's note and newbie's guide are updated! I also numbered up the seasons on the round pages. We're currently working through season 12! Lot of story here! :o
And on the topic of all that story... I've been doing a lot of thinking about the story archives lately. And when I have a little more free time this summer, I think I'd like to finally finish cleaning up the older posts, fixing the compressed pictures, maybe rewriting some of the very old stuff. And I was also considering maybe moving all of my gameplay stuff over to this blog.
The reason being, soon enough people aren't going to be playing TS2 anymore. (I know, I know, we all swear we're going to love it forever, lol!) But the point is that some day those gameplay notes aren't going to mean much to anyone anymore. And also, I think all the gameplay notes probably scare off some more mainstream readers (meaning people who don't play Sims) - when really, this story isn't even about the gameplay anymore anyway. So in short, I'd still like the story to stand on its own, and to be readable as a story for a long time to come! As long as I'm around to pay my hosting fees! ;)
So I have a few questions for you (mostly for people who *haven't* followed the story from the beginning):
- When you first started reading, how did you catch up on the story? Did you use the "newer post" links on the bottom? (Those are kind of hard to see, underneath the comments like they are.) Or did you use the story links on the round page? Did you just drop straight in and read backwards as necessary? Or some other means of catching up?
- As you were catching up, did you read the comments, or did you just skip straight to the next story?
- Are the round pages useful at all?
- Do you think a new reader would prefer a "next chapter" link in a more obvious place, like at the end of the post, before the comments? (OMG, that would be a lot of work, lol! But I would do it if I knew people would actually use them.)
- If you were just reading for story, did you find the gameplay notes, author's notes, or outtakes annoying or cluttery? And if so, how did you navigate around them?
And finally - do you think it's easy enough for a new reader to navigate through this story? And is there anything I can do to make it easier?
welcome to LH Babble, v. 2.0
Because a girl can never have too many blogs! ;)
You can expect the usual babbly chatter and spammy pictures, except all in its own place.
I'm also in the process of copy/pasting over the old babble archives (just my posts, unfortunately - the replies would be too much work, lol!).
That's all, I suppose. It's a babble blog! Isn't it pretty!?!
You can expect the usual babbly chatter and spammy pictures, except all in its own place.
I'm also in the process of copy/pasting over the old babble archives (just my posts, unfortunately - the replies would be too much work, lol!).
That's all, I suppose. It's a babble blog! Isn't it pretty!?!
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