Writing help!
Dec. 2nd, 2006 04:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sagesariaSo there's a story that I want to tell using The Sims 2, and I only know the beginning of it.
Before I start, here's the link to the family's profile: http://sagesims.livejournal.com/2756.html
Anyway, here's how it goes; the Perfects just moved into a new neighborhood, and they live in a big house that's set up like a dollhouse, and they live a fairly cliche'd black-and-white sitcom life. This is all fine and dandy for them, but one of their 8-year-old twin girls, Molly, doesn't like this lifestyle. She hates not being able to see her father all the time because he's at work, her mother is sexist and refuses to let her near anything considered a "boy toy," and her twin sister (also named Molly...don't ask) is becomming an exact replica of the mother. The only people in her family she can get along with are her youngest sister Polly, who, while young, is starting to show signs of being a cool person, and her grandfather, who seems to be the only one in the family who really gets how kids think (he makes toys for a living and smuggles the girls some "boy toys" now and then).
When they moved into this house, they let an aquaintence, Alexandra Sabine, move into the attic with her 2-year-old daughter. Alex is a complete wild thing who lives for parties and one-night stands (although one case was not so brief; Jenny, her daughter, is the child of a man Alex would have been in a long-term relationship with...if he hadn't abandoned her.). While abstaining from the crazy life to raise her kid, the rebel is still in her, as shown by how she dresses, what she teaches Jenny, and novels that she writes to make money.
Harold and Wendy, the Perfect parents, dissaprove of Alex's party girl ways, and it's never completely known WHY they let her into the house, though some level of sympathy of a want to "change her ways" was probably involved. Molly, however, really likes Alex. She usually hides in the attic with her to talk, or to have a comfortable place to do her homework. Alex, meanwhile, sees a lot of spirit in Molly that her parents are trying to supress, and does what she can to encourage her with whatever she does. She even uses some of her book royalties to buy her a guitar (which of course she has to hide from her mother)
Things go on like this for a while. Molly looks up to Alex more and more every day, and they get closer and closer, but outside of this relationship, things get worse for Alex in the house. Wendy and Harold always harass her about how she lives, she can hardly make enough money to pay her part on the house, and the pressures of being a single mother start to weigh her down, until finally, one night, Alex kills herself in the backyard pool.
Now all of this goes pretty quick; after an introduction to the family and a deep insight into Molly's character (since it's all from her point of view), then some info about Molly and Alex's relationship, THEN cut to when Alex kills herself, THEN some info about what happened to cause it. If that makes sense at all.
Anyway, I don't really know where to go from there. I want this to really affect Molly and Jenny, expecially when Molly becomes a teenager. But I don't know what the point would be. Where do I go with the story?
Anybody willing to help me out?
Before I start, here's the link to the family's profile: http://sagesims.livejournal.com/2756.html
Anyway, here's how it goes; the Perfects just moved into a new neighborhood, and they live in a big house that's set up like a dollhouse, and they live a fairly cliche'd black-and-white sitcom life. This is all fine and dandy for them, but one of their 8-year-old twin girls, Molly, doesn't like this lifestyle. She hates not being able to see her father all the time because he's at work, her mother is sexist and refuses to let her near anything considered a "boy toy," and her twin sister (also named Molly...don't ask) is becomming an exact replica of the mother. The only people in her family she can get along with are her youngest sister Polly, who, while young, is starting to show signs of being a cool person, and her grandfather, who seems to be the only one in the family who really gets how kids think (he makes toys for a living and smuggles the girls some "boy toys" now and then).
When they moved into this house, they let an aquaintence, Alexandra Sabine, move into the attic with her 2-year-old daughter. Alex is a complete wild thing who lives for parties and one-night stands (although one case was not so brief; Jenny, her daughter, is the child of a man Alex would have been in a long-term relationship with...if he hadn't abandoned her.). While abstaining from the crazy life to raise her kid, the rebel is still in her, as shown by how she dresses, what she teaches Jenny, and novels that she writes to make money.
Harold and Wendy, the Perfect parents, dissaprove of Alex's party girl ways, and it's never completely known WHY they let her into the house, though some level of sympathy of a want to "change her ways" was probably involved. Molly, however, really likes Alex. She usually hides in the attic with her to talk, or to have a comfortable place to do her homework. Alex, meanwhile, sees a lot of spirit in Molly that her parents are trying to supress, and does what she can to encourage her with whatever she does. She even uses some of her book royalties to buy her a guitar (which of course she has to hide from her mother)
Things go on like this for a while. Molly looks up to Alex more and more every day, and they get closer and closer, but outside of this relationship, things get worse for Alex in the house. Wendy and Harold always harass her about how she lives, she can hardly make enough money to pay her part on the house, and the pressures of being a single mother start to weigh her down, until finally, one night, Alex kills herself in the backyard pool.
Now all of this goes pretty quick; after an introduction to the family and a deep insight into Molly's character (since it's all from her point of view), then some info about Molly and Alex's relationship, THEN cut to when Alex kills herself, THEN some info about what happened to cause it. If that makes sense at all.
Anyway, I don't really know where to go from there. I want this to really affect Molly and Jenny, expecially when Molly becomes a teenager. But I don't know what the point would be. Where do I go with the story?
Anybody willing to help me out?
