Well, it's been a few months.... 

To cut a long story short, I've started the IB and it's a LOT of work, so that is the reason why I haven't been that active over the past months. I'm really sorry for all the nice people who leave such nice comments (THANK YOU) but I just don't have the time to write back. Still, I am really happy that people like what I produced and I am grateful for that! 

All of this means: UNDETERMINED BREAK FROM SUBMITTING (not that I've submitted much ;))

Again, I'm sorry, especially for the people who bookmarked me *duck in shame*

Just one last, rather random thing: Finding book titles for S3 books

I have a lot of sims who are authors and who also write a lot of books, so pretty soon, I ran out of inspiration for new titles. So I developed several strategies for making up new ones.

1) Look around your room/the place you play the sims. Look for interesting things. Book titles can be single words ("The Lamp"), several ones ("Tins on a Shelf"), sentences ("Don't touch the Mask") or "and" constructions ("High Heels and Ukuleles"). However, you know most of the objects in your room, so sometimes this doesn't help.

2) Grab the book nearest to you. Now. Turn to page 56. Find the 5th sentence. Use that. Or parts of it. 

3) Go to Wikipedia.org. In the margin on the left, there's a button called "random article". Click on that until you find something interesting ("Yssingeaux mon amour", "Lemon Sharks")

4) This is my favourite. If you have an iPod touch or iPhone, download a Hangman application (there's loads of free ones). Choose single player. The programme will automatically choose a random word, will it not. You don't even have to guess properly, just get to know the word. Do that repeatedly until you find something good. My app even lets me choose whether I want an adjective or a noun etc. That helps when I want a specific construction. ("The Silver Apricot", "Supplementary Submarines", "Thundering Sprout", "Gothic Coconut")

Alternative: If you have a person with too much time at your disposal, play Hangman with them. Or just tell 'em to say random words. 

5) Pictures. You have to be a bit more imaginative with this one. Look at your own photos or browse flickr or similar sites. Imagine that the picture is a snapshot taken at some point in the story. What happened before? What happened later? 

6) Use real book titles. It's a bit lame, but it can be fun (Harry Potter completely flopped with my sims) and it's kind of cool when your sims can buy the same books as you. 

Those are the main methods that I use when I run out of ideas. I know it sounds a bit extreme to go through all of this just to find a book title, I mean, after all it's just a game. However, if you do it, you might as well do it properly. And the listed methods can be very entertaining and inspirational in themselves. 

That's it! Y'all have a good time and maybe see you in the future! 

Nawa