Latest revision as of 02:54, 13 September 2012

[edit] Writing Skill

The Writing skill is a skill career, so your sims can register as a Self-Employed writers, earning special rewards for selling their work.

It starts out with the options to Practice Writing, start Fiction Novel and start Non-Fiction Novel. As your level progress you have the added options of additional Novel types, and the royalties paid for these also increase.

• Bookworm Trait can write and read books faster.
• Perfectionist Trait writes book slower, but royalties will be greater.
• Artistic Trait writes books faster and with higher royalties.

EP	Level	Genre	Average Length	Expected Royalties	Comments
	0	Action Screeplay	100		Requires level 8 in the Directing branch of the Film career
	1	Fiction	90	§
	1	Non-Fiction	90	§
	1	Science Fiction	150	§	Computer Whiz Trait requires 0 Level
	2	Trashy	190	§
	2	Sci-Fi Screeplay	100		Requires level 8 in the Directing branch of the Film career
	3	Journalism Article	79	§
	3	Drama	305	§§
	3	Childrens	105	§§	Requires Painting level 4
	4	Romantic Comedy Screeplay	100		Requires level 8 in the Directing branch of the Film career
	5	Humor	345	§§	Good Sense of Humor Trait requires Level 2
	5	Satire	350	§§§	3 Humor Novels written required
	6	Historical	505	§§§	Sim must be an elder.
	6	Indie Screeplay	100		Requires level 8 in the Directing branch of the Film career
	8	Drama Screeplay	100		Requires level 8 in the Directing branch of the Film career
	8	Mystery	510	§§§
	10	Romance	675	§§§§	Hopeless Romantic Trait requires Skill Level 5
	10	Vaudeville	1250	§§§§§	2 of each Genre Required
		Biography	400	§§	From opportunity
		Auto-Biography	400	§§	From opportunity
		Fantasy	150	§§§	3 Sci-Fi Novels written required
		Life Story	400	§§§	From top level career opportunity
		Political Memoir	400	§§§	From Political career opportunity
		Masterpiece	2000	§§§§§§	25 books written required

[edit] Writing Speed

There are several factors that influence a Sim's writing speed.

• Standard Writing Rate .12 ppm
• Book Worm Bonus Rate Adds .03 ppm
• Level 10 Writing Skill Bonus Adds .25 ppm
• Read 50 Books Bonus Adds .15 ppm
• Speed Writer Bonus Multiplies total ppm by 1.4

For example, a Sim with the Book Worm trait, maximum writing skill, who has read 50 books, and who has completed the Speed Writer skill challenge would have a writing rate of 0.77 page per minute: (0.12 + 0.03 + 0.25 + 0.15) * 1.4

Such a Sim could complete an average Masterpiece in under 44 hours of total work. However, if that Sim had not yet read 50 books, their page per minute rate would be 0.56 and an average Masterpiece would require closer to 60 hours.

[edit] Quality of Book

Each level brings the chance of the book to be a flop, a hit or a Best Seller.

These are relative chances. So at level 10, you have a 15 in 29 chance to write a hit.

Note that there are several significant factors that can alter these odds.

• Each book written in a given genre improves your chances in that genre.
  • Completing the Specialist Writer challenge improves your chances in your genre of specialization even further!
• The Prolific Writer challenge increases your chances in all genres.
• There is a skill opportunity available (write a book with royalties of §100 or more) that will also improve your chances from then on.

[edit] Challenges