Warnings: long post, jumping around topics, oh and a couple of spoilers (learned how to use those things)
Out of all of the recreation I have going on in the Sims...I've actually done quite alot of prose writing as well. Most of it is still on paper though...not on Microsoft Word.
I want to share something with you all, but I'm not sure how to say it exactly. Hmm...
The Gang as in based with The Sims as a virtual illustrator is a
what-if story from an original story of mine. Confused yet? The
real story, as I tell my family/friends, is all in prose or I should say, shall be in prose, considering not everything is written or typed yet...
The names of the characters in the Sims version have been, we'll say, tweaked...a little. I don't know if you've noticed, but such characters in 13pumpkin's
Sunday Sims kinda look like some of
The Gang, right? They are actually. And, they all will have the correct names from the prose form of them. I posted a disclaimer somewhere about that when she started her blog, Sugar Coated Sims. I made the decision back before I posted TS3
The Gang in September of 2009 (wow...it's 2011) that I didn't want to post their real names. I don't know what my little mind was thinking, something about making sure the names weren't stolen. I make up excuses for my insanity. Just leave it be.
13pumpkin, through her existence of Veronica and my gang (my characters overrun her neighborhood, Hell) used their real names so I said she didn't have to change them...which I don't think she was going to regardless.
I thought about, when converting
The Gang over to TS2 to change their names back to what they were suppose to be, but I decided, nah, let's not add to the confusion of what the readers are going to be going through as it is. I don't believe in complete torture. I guess I'm not evil enough. [sigh] (
Kiri, we need a sighing smiley)
Back to what I was originally typing about...
The story using the Sims is a
what-if, meaning not the
real story. I decided to slip the time frame and see what I could do with it. The time frame being when the gang met Jack and Pmint.
They actually met them in highschool, but when I decided to make The Gang using TS3 I made everyone into Adults and was like...well...oh well.
I guess I decided to type about this because I'm reworking the
real The Gang in prose form. Actually I'm trying a different writing style regarding point-of-view with it. Originally I had it all in third person, but I began to get agitated with it. There's always something missing, a little touch that can only be delivered in 1st person, but with as many characters as there is in
The Gang I decided there was no way to tell the story from one person's view. So how about multiple first person views? Don't give me that look! You know it's possible! Actually a book I read in high school did that very thing. I believe it was called
Keisha's House or something close to that. Basically what you do is when you want to switch views make a new chapter, in the title somewhere in that chapter "so and so's view." So far, so good.
Back to the names...
There are a few characters who actually have their correct names, such as Twister Ba'Lee and Sasha Fire. That really is their names! Got to love my Elementals. Nothing else suited them...
Want to know Jack and Peppermint Saiders real names?
NiNjeia [pronounced nin--g--a] Jack Spiders...yeah, see Jack is his middle name so I kept that. Peppermint's name is Deergria Peppermint Spiders, see Peppermint stayed too, but I hadn't made her a middle name until I first made her into a Sim back in...2005. Her hair was just that color...so Pmint.
If you hadn't figured that out from reading
Sunday Sims...go back and read
Sunday Sims. There's actually going to be a lot of spoilers in
Sunday Sims, considering 13pumpkin posts every Sunday and I post...every...once and awhile. So her story will quickly progress...but not everything in our stories are the same. She's all la'dee'da in happy sweety cake land. I've got some dark times ahead of me. Some bad...really bad things to come in
The Gang.
Try me. I'm up to tell the real names if your curious. Pick a character and I'll sing like a canary. Maybe just because the mood I'm in. It's approaching 2 AM here after all.
different flavored pizzas (geez I have typed food in awhile)