Revision as of 16:30, 18 July 2009

Writing Skill

The Writing skill 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.

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.

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.

Challenges