Changing novel title after delivery
J. M. Pescado:
I'm still trying to make "Lessons I Learned From Brynne" appear.
Berg:
Ah, one of my bestselling sims went with the "... And You"-series. Cooking, cleaning, gardening, pet care... You name it; she knew it all. Then she met Peter Sims of the dread Garden Club, fell in love and started to write crappy romance. They all had "mysterious, handsome count" in the description, somwhere (oh, another peeve! There is a romantic book cover, but hardly no romantic plot icons? Wtf?)
Quote from: J. M. Pescado
I'm still trying to make "Lessons I Learned From Brynne" appear.
Wait! Any sim who attempts to read it will pee themselves? Please say it is so!
Zazazu:
I have one sim who works as a police psychic and writes crime novels, but due to my rotation usually he's mid-novel when I switch to a new home. The first time I had him write a novel I forgot what my plans were for him, and it ended up being titled "Dude, seriously?". I wish the title screen came up first, when you choose the plot points.
IcemanSimmer:
Quote from: Berg on 2008 July 05, 17:25:30
(oh, another peeve! There is a romantic book cover, but hardly no romantic plot icons? Wtf?)
My fubar book was a romance and I remember the "plot" went Money - Cruise Ship - Sunshine - Airplane - Question Mark. But herein lay a bigger question. In my game, whenever I mouse-over the icons, I don't see any tooltip explaining WTF the icons mean. Some of the icons are seriously cryptic. Do these plot icons even have any meaning? Could I shut my eyes and randomly pick 5 icons and still get a best seller? For all I know, I could be doing that already ;D
Quote from: Zazazu on 2008 July 05, 17:37:25
The first time I had him write a novel I forgot what my plans were for him, and it ended up being titled "Dude, seriously?". I wish the title screen came up first, when you choose the plot points.
When I was trying to find a solution to my problem, I kept thinking that in the 4 months that FT has been out, there MUST be lots of players having issues with titles for one reason or another. There MUST be an easier way to alter titles. You are dead right that the title screen should be part of the initial plot screen. When the novel is done, a popup should appear informing you of that and to also expect a phone call on your HOME PHONE from the publisher. The first time I wrote a novel, I thought the publisher would call my cell phone. But no!!! It had to be a landline and I didn't get my royalties >:( Now I keep a phone next to all my writer sims computers.
Berg:
Quote from: Zazazu
The first time I had him write a novel I forgot what my plans were for him, and it ended up being titled "Dude, seriously?". I wish the title screen came up first, when you choose the plot points.
Lol! I had the same thing happen (because it took the guy half his adulthood to write the damn thing) so i thought "Teh kewl stuff!!1" was an open enough title ::) I remember it sold badly, not too surprising (although it might have had more to do with his lack of creative skillz...). So, yes, I agree about the title screen thing wholeheartedly.
Quote from: IcemanSimmer
My fubar book was a romance and I remember the "plot" went Money - Cruise Ship - Sunshine - Airplane - Question Mark.
But I want heart, kiss and woohoo! >:(
Quote from: IcemanSimmer
Do these plot icons even have any meaning?
I never thought so, at least. Think they're just pretties that are supposed to appear in their "thought balloons" when they read.
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Could I shut my eyes and randomly pick 5 icons and still get a best seller?
I can't see why not? :P I did it all the time after Joseph Hart had written over ten books and I couldn't feel creative about the whole thing anymore (he wrote a total of 21 novels!) Isn't it all about creative skill?
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