Posts tagged simming
Update
Jul 15th
Well, as you can see, this is not the start of the aforementioned series of reviews. I’ve not yet been able to write said review and, in the interest of not leaving you all hanging, I thought I’d do a generic update. I haven’t been able to sit down and get a blog out lately, mostly because I’ve been busy with work and trying to get my joint writing work “Knight’s Woman” edited – among other things.
Some other updates since my last blog:
I’ve reduced my simming presence to a single simm, mainly due to the lack of time I’ve had to commit to it. I do not discount my previous comments on the importance of simming if you are a writer, but in the same regard I cannot hold positions that I’m unable to fulfill.
Inspiration and Editing
Mar 24th
I’ve been thinking about inspiration lately. A lot of writers get asked that famous question, where do you get your ideas from? I already spoke a little on my muse and how I like to write, but I don’t think I’ve spent much time on inspiration itself.
I get inspiration from all sorts of places. I get inspired when I read work from other writers. I get inspired when I’m in the shower or driving down the road or grocery shopping. I get inspired when I’m walking around in a book store. I get inspired when I’m dreaming.
I think inspiration is what drives us as writers. I think that’s when the magic happens. And it really is a sort of magic. We sit down and we write and we get to that place where the words are just spewing from somewhere we can’t even put our finger on and then when we step back we’re in awe at this beautiful creation and we can’t believe it’s not already sitting on the bestseller shelf at Walgreens. Then, later, we come back to that same piece and we scowl and we turn our head like someone has stepped in behind us and thrown up all over it. Inspiration clouds us, and yet, it’s where we get the raw material from.
The Importance of Simming
Jan 15th
Today I want to reflect on something that is a fairly large part of my daily life, something that both fosters strong writing techniques and principles but resides in relative obscurity from the writing world’s radar. That something is known as simming, an activity that has been around (according to wikipedia) for over 20 years but has yet to make a large enough impact on the web world to be a well known phenomenon, like social networking sites or internet dating.
Simming, which most likely grew out of off-line role playing games that date further back, is really just a game played via chat, forum, or e-mail where players collectively write a story from their respective character’s point of view. In other words, the organizer (GM or Game Master/Manager) sets a story in motion with their character and other players develop a character or characters to tell a certain part of the story as it would happen to them. Usually, simming is based on an established television or movie series (think Star Trek or Star Wars) and as such is regarded as fan fiction – a general dislike of the writing community.
