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Post by Stacy on Jan 5, 2011 0:06:24 GMT -5
So I just finished answering the advice to new Sims story writers question in the interview, and I wanted to go ahead and share it with you guys. Because this is question #30, and I have already written a ton. So I'm afraid you'll be all "tl;dr" long before this and not read it. What advice would you give someone who wants to create a sim story?Oh man. Oh man. I have been thinking about this for the last two days. Mostly while listening to this song at work. Welcome to the Jungle - Guns 'n' Roses Not everyone is going to like your work. Not everyone is going to like you. And some of these people are going to let you know that they don't like you. In very personal ways. And it's going to hurt. It may, in fact, bring you to your knees. But you have to get back up. Believe in your story. Believe in yourself. Believe in your light. And let it burn. Let it burn bright and hard and fierce, and get back up. Because your light is stronger than their shadow. Your love is stronger than their hate. Your need to create is greater than their need to destroy. Some people are going to love your work. Some people will be greatly inspired by it. Some people will find more in it than you ever knew was there. Get to know these people. They will be there when you fall. They will help you back up. They will keep your light burning even when you are blind and stumbling in the dark. Write for these people. Write them a story that blazes and crackles and burns like the stars with your love for them. They will return it tenfold, and the darkness will no longer be able to touch you.
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Post by themctavishams on Jan 5, 2011 0:22:17 GMT -5
So I just finished answering the advice to new Sims story writers question in the interview, and I wanted to go ahead and share it with you guys. Because this is question #30, and I have already written a ton. So I'm afraid you'll be all "tl;dr" long before this and not read it. What advice would you give someone who wants to create a sim story?Oh man. Oh man. I have been thinking about this for the last two days. Mostly while listening to this song at work. Welcome to the Jungle - Guns 'n' Roses Not everyone is going to like your work. Not everyone is going to like you. And some of these people are going to let you know that they don't like you. In very personal ways. And it's going to hurt. It may, in fact, bring you to your knees. But you have to get back up. Believe in your story. Believe in yourself. Believe in your light. And let it burn. Let it burn bright and hard and fierce, and get back up. Because your light is stronger than their shadow. Your love is stronger than their hate. Your need to create is greater than their need to destroy. Some people are going to love your work. Some people will be greatly inspired by it. Some people will find more in it than you ever knew was there. Get to know these people. They will be there when you fall. They will help you back up. They will keep your light burning even when you are blind and stumbling in the dark. Write for these people. Write them a story that blazes and crackles and burns like the stars with your love for them. They will return it tenfold, and the darkness will no longer be able to touch you. That is a beautiful and exquisite answer. ::feels all inadequate now:: Wow Stacy..
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Post by choco on Jan 5, 2011 0:54:57 GMT -5
Stacy, I love that answer. That alone is so inspiring to get myself to write, despite my always anxious filled mind about clicking the "Publish" button. Thank you from someone who has just started a story herself.
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Post by celebkiriedhel on Jan 5, 2011 3:33:40 GMT -5
I love that answer And you wonder why we all love you so much here?
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Post by Stacy on Jan 5, 2011 18:20:56 GMT -5
I love that answer And you wonder why we all love you so much here? I have read all three replies, yay! Replying in reverse order. Thank you - good to hear after spending some time sitting here singing "everybody hates me" to myself, lol. I guess I am xNFP - went through a period of completely identifying with the ENFP traits and not the INFP ones, and today I'm reading through INFP profiles and saying "Yep, that's me." What with the whole idealism and emphasis on values and being really strict about one's values. Err - oh yeah! I love you too, yay! LOL! Is dinner time - will finish replies afterwards. Want to think, anyway.
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Post by Stacy on Jan 5, 2011 19:58:09 GMT -5
Stacy, I love that answer. That alone is so inspiring to get myself to write, despite my always anxious filled mind about clicking the "Publish" button. Thank you from someone who has just started a story herself. I think most of us experience some sort of anxiety. And thank you so much for the reply - your words inspire me to write. It's like a beautiful circle of inspiration.
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Post by Stacy on Jan 5, 2011 20:12:04 GMT -5
That is a beautiful and exquisite answer. ::feels all inadequate now:: Wow Stacy.. Thank you, so very much. You've been wonderfully kind to me. And you are not inadequate! You are all that is good and true and worthy.
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Post by Stacy on Jan 7, 2011 16:18:26 GMT -5
I always wonder about people who find my blog by searching "valley sun sims" and then don't click on the link to the forum.
Somebody found it today by searching "medley misty sims livejournal". That made me go "grrrr". Stuff like that always makes me paranoid about the secrets.
I also read and replied to the comments on a couple of LJ posts today and added another reason to why I don't do that often.
It's very emotionally draining and distracting and it stirs me up and makes me think, and while that is very good and something that discussion should do, I can't be unfocused and preoccupied and full of conflicting emotions at the same time that I'm trying to write fiction or poetry or an interview.
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Post by Stacy on Jan 7, 2011 17:39:25 GMT -5
LOL OMG! Go on Twitter, see Qui's tweet, know that I still have the secret radar. But hey, this one is cool.
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Post by Stacy on Jan 8, 2011 3:02:21 GMT -5
I am a perfectionist! RAWR!
*embraces perfectionism*
Yes, I think my work sucks. I think 10.07 sucks. I know that most of you disagree, and I can see your point. This is not fishing for compliments or attention or anything like that. It's just saying that to me, for me, according to my own expectations and vision and what I want to do with words, my work sucks and it's not even close to good enough.
And the thing is - that is okay. Because I will just try harder, reach higher, fail better.
And one day, maybe, maybe I'll be good enough. Probably not, though. But that is okay, because what I create in my reach for the impossible will be good enough for other people.
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Post by Stacy on Jan 9, 2011 3:43:57 GMT -5
John has a theory that Grace and I have so many problems because she's used to being able to communicate and to being understood and to fitting in. And she can't fit me into her worldview, and that's a new experience for her. So she gets really frustrated with the inability to communicate, whereas for me it's just another day at the office.
And yes, it frustrates me too, but it's been frustrating me my whole life. Since the day in elementary school when the other kids didn't know how to play chess and my world shattered and I got dizzy and I cried myself sick, because I couldn't understand not knowing how to play chess. Because Daddy taught me when I was two or three and I didn't remember learning and I thought it was just something that everyone knew.
Kiri - the poem is my state of mind poem. It struck me that you didn't think the "I" in the poem was me, because it is.
John tries to help, because he's the most fluent of anyone else in Stacy language. And he tells me ways I could rephrase things to be better understood, but it feels like giving up who I am. And I refuse to do that.
Better to die (or be really frustrated and angsty and upset) on my feet than to live (or fit in and get along) on my knees and in chains.
how curious you are, it said in its voice of iron and chains almost as if you were alive almost as if you had a brain
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Post by celebkiriedhel on Jan 9, 2011 4:02:09 GMT -5
Stacey - I kind of got that, but decided not to make the assumption, because you know - assumptions can be bad.
I know about the chains/free thing. sadly it's a familiar thing for me.
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Post by lepifera on Jan 9, 2011 23:35:27 GMT -5
Stacy,
Reading your many posts about the insecurity a writer experiences opened the can of warms for me, which I thought I have successfully placed out of sight, out of mind. I am glad to read that you have found an answer for yourself.
After the emotioanl roller coaster over the weekend dealing with my own anxiety, I thought I would share my own conclusion about why I write and would continue to do so. Each person would have his/her own very personal reason behind writing and telling stories. Yet I just might as well share my two cents worth of thoughts.
I asked myself, what do I write for? Why on earth am I trying to make connections with folks through the cyberspace whom I actually don't see face to face everyday? Was it only to seek social approval and acceptance? The answer fortunately is no.
A piece of writing can be a very personal thing, a gift a writer holds in his/her hands and hopes the world would recieve it with an open heart. It is no wonder a writer can easily take an unfavorable reception as a rejection of his/her very self.
Yet the reality is the busy bees of the world are all preoccupied with different things in life. There is a chinese character, "緣", which means the bonding between two separate souls in sharing the many brief moments of their lives. 緣 can't be forced, neither could a relationship between a writer and a reader. One just had to let it happen naturally at the right place and at the right time. Even when a message has been spelled out in the most straight foward, crystal clear way, the ones who are not ready for it , or don't need the message at the specific stages of their lives, won't get it. The readers who are meant to recieve the gifts you have to offer, will make the connections.
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Post by Stacy on Jan 10, 2011 0:15:25 GMT -5
I do plan on reading the responses, but I am completely and totally emotionally drained at the moment. And here's why. Sim Storytellers Interview
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Post by lepifera on Jan 10, 2011 1:08:52 GMT -5
Your writing and your presence in this world put tears of joy in my eyes. Besides that, I am speechless.
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Post by Stacy on Jan 10, 2011 23:24:32 GMT -5
Your writing and your presence in this world put tears of joy in my eyes. Besides that, I am speechless. I saw this and figured you weren't yelling at me in your previous post. So I got the courage to scroll up and read it. And...same back at you. *hugs* Also, I haven't forgotten - I am going to email you. Just have a finite amount of time and emotional resources. Like everyone else, I suppose.
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Post by lepifera on Jan 11, 2011 4:08:58 GMT -5
"What I really really want is a way to layer sentences and words, a way to have different notes and melodies. I want words that go high and low and make your sternum vibrate to their rhythm and feel like little hammers hitting your bones fast and then slow and then fast again and faster until it's like an explosion" I love the parallel among different artistic media. Have you seen the PBS documentary on Ansel Adam? www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/ansel/The narator spoke of how when Ansel developed his photos, he would make sure to cover all the gradation between light and darkness, just as one would cover the entire scale when composing a piece of music. Oh.. the beauty, the beauty.. Few things make me happier than watching and reading an artist speak of his/her passion. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. Hmm.. guess I am not exactly speechless, yet I lack the felicity with words in conveying that thrill and sense of rapture behind the artistic endeavours. When I read what you wrote, I could only dance up and down like a mad woman and keep repeating "YES, this is it, this is it!"
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Post by Stacy on Jan 13, 2011 8:20:31 GMT -5
Sometimes I wish I didn't suck and that I didn't make people hate me.
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Post by celebkiriedhel on Jan 13, 2011 8:31:17 GMT -5
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Post by Stacy on Jan 13, 2011 8:33:30 GMT -5
Sometime I wish you'd realise that you don't suck and people don't hate you. In summary - I love you lots!! LOL! I got out of the shower and was all "John, I'm pretty sure my friends hate me and also I suck" and he was all "No you don't and no they don't" with his long suffering patience.
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