Hello Beautifuls!
I wanted to take a minute and update everyone since it's been quite a while since I've posted anything. I actually have about 15 posts typed up and ready to go however I didn't quite realize just how behind Instagram has gotten! I have been spamming everyone all day, every day since I announced I was taking my hiatus from posting over here and I still have about 300 more pictures to post before I can officially start posting on here again. My goal is to post like crazy this week and hopefully get up and going officially this weekend. However, I will not be home this weekend so my dilemma is that my posts will have to go up on their own and hopefully will get posts on Instagram going too. I have a wedding to go too so I won't be in town.
My goal is to do posts like how I was normally doing it every Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday. My original idea was to focus on one character each day and that day would just be them, such as Wendy on Sunday, Steve on Wednesday, and so on. But we currently have 4 children in the Disney fam with their own stories plus Mickey and Dina and also Aubrey. Before my hiatus, we were working on phasing out Aubrey already but I've decided that Aubrey should still be a part of the story, just in tidbits because where my main sims are so goal-oriented it helps me stay interested in my game to be able to have a sim where I can just play and not have to worry about what we need to accomplish each day. That being said Aubrey will only be a minor role and we will only see her and her family more in the background or checking in with her from time to time. To be honest I think you'll see her the most over on my Instagram unless the kids are having playdates. I could rotate the stories and make it more even with the main characters but I feel like, for the most part, I'm already doing that. We are getting ready to age up the twins and Wendy and Wendy's story is really going to start while she is a teen and the reason why I waited for her to be a teen to go to Neverland is that I wanted her to be able to get jealous and have that crush with Peter like the movies always showed. I always wanted Wendy to stay in Neverland and be with Peter and the Lost Boys but I also like staying true to their movie inspirations.
I'm also trying to come up with ways to make everyone more involved in my story since I don't stream or post videos my blog and Instagram are really the only outlets that we have for the game. I mean technically I could stream I just don't know how well that would go. Since I've been wanting to get people more involved in my game I think I'm going to start doing polls and giveaways over on my Instagram. No matter what I do over there I will announce it over here first because I know things can be a bit slower over here. Two of the polls I already have in mind are Wendy's fate with Neverland and you all picking our 'Belle' character. The Belle one will be coming sooner probably in the next couple of posts. I'll tell you right now my first post back is going to be the toddler playdate since we talked about that right before I took my hiatus from the game. Then Wendy's birthday maybe, I have a few posts to decide on what's going on then I'm going to post the Belles which I didn't take a very traditional route I tried to make it very open and you'll see what I mean when you see what Adam's been up too.
I also want to get to the point where I'm posting a schedule of what's coming every week, maybe just like announcing who will be focused on each post. To be honest I think that will solve the character dilemma that I'm having and it will also really help me see what's hogging all the spotlight versus what's really not being seen that much. I try to post everything at noon on each of my posting days and I'm also trying to get to the point where I'm posting maybe four times a week maybe. I don't know I just have a lot of content and stories that I want to make sure everything is being fully explored versus rushed over.
One last thing before I disappear for the week. I've been working on my editing skills which I know I've mentioned before and you can really see it I feel like because my goal was getting my Instagram and blog and family tree all to feel like one unit, and I feel like it's getting there. I also want to create a highlight over on my Instagram of the family tree and then link the Plum Tree App to it to make it more accessible. This is why I really wish I could post from the computer to Instagram instead off of my phone. My main two things I wanted to focus on fixing during this break besides catching Instagram up was my editing and how to keep my story content the same on all outlets. Right now I currently post on Instagram and here then I also have the Plum Tree app for the family tree. I've played with the idea of streaming but I don't know how well that would work out since I play very sporadically and usually whenever I can fit something in. But I guess if that is something that enough people would want to do I may be open to the idea to doing that. Since my family has become more elaborate now that we are three generations going and they are all pretty much doing their own things the story seems to get a little muddy from time to time I've just been really wanting to make it as cohesive as possible and I don't feel like I've completely reached that yet. A great example is my generation's goals. I really am working on trying to make them look better versus just being a graph with a pretty background like what I currently have on Instagram. I'm actually going to focus on that this week and might actually make that my first post back just to refresh everyone what we have planned for each sim and see what's going on in the world since it has been a while and I have gotten a lot of new custom content traits that I feel like have been adding a lot of really cool things to my game! I'm actually going to make a short post on Wednesday about the traits that I've downloaded and why I've been getting so many lately. This is why I love making these rambling posts because it really helps me figure out what I would love post and what direction I should really go in.
Well, I hope to post this weekend and get back to normal next week and if not I will sincerely apologize and promise we will get back to normal real soon. I've just been posting pretty heavily and routinely since I made my blog back in January and felt like I needed to get everything running smoothly now versus when we have even more stories going.
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