#i had to plot out the poses in my sims notebook and i just know i looked insane from a far

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best tips on starting a new story or legacy on simblr? 💓

hi lovely!! i personally had my legacy going before i even started my simblr, and just started documenting their story!! so if you already have a household you love, you could start out by sharing them and their life with us! you could start fresh by creating a founder or starter couple you really love, and then either let their story unfold naturally, plan out what you’d like to happen, or do a little bit of both like i do (i.e. something will happen in my game and i build on it. like, i see 2 sims fighting and i come up with what i think they’re fighting about, or i see that 2 sims have a romantic interest in each other and i either push them together or push them apart). here are some really good guides for story writing:

sandy-sims’ sim story guide

my pinterest has lots of boards for story creating either in sims or novel/short story territory (story inspo/characters/writing/sims are good boards that i update daily!)

this guide to writing ‘simlit’

the help navigation page on my personal blog lmao

on simblr, you not only tell your story through words, but through pictures, so take lots of screenshots!! they don’t always have to directly demonstrate what’s happening in your dialogue, but should still pose as a good visual for the setting, you know? think of sim story writing as writing a movie script, kind of. you have your scene set up in your screenshot, and now you need to come up with what you think is happening there!! it’s actually a lot of fun!! 

a lot of people write down their scripts/storylines in a notebook or on google drive just to keep track of what’s happening, what’s going to happen, and what has happened. i do that with my actual short stories and such, but for my legacy, i just write it as it comes to me, and as the screenshots give me inspiration. whatever you need to do to keep your story in order is up to you!!

poses are really helpful to myself and a lot of other people, but some people don’t like them. do you boo!! poses will be helpful for staging very specific scenes where you’d like your sims to do things/make expressions that aren’t going to happen naturally in a sims game. ESP if you need them to just sit tf down or stand somewhere and NOT MOVE long enough for you to get a good picture. the pose tag on sssvitlans is a gold mine!!

my biggest tip for writing a story on simblr is to make sure you’re doing it for yourself first and foremost. this is supposed to be fun, and something that you like doing, and shouldn’t be done just to please the masses. sometimes you’ll have a plot point or a character that people don’t like, but that’s life?? people are going to read a book they don’t like or see a movie they wish had ended differently, but the creator was happy with what they did and that’s all that matters. it’s your blog, and your story. please YOU!!

i really hope this was helpful and if you need advice on anything else, i’m always here!! good luck babe, and happy simming!! ♡