I miss you guys. I miss writing. I miss Simming.
Moral of the story: School sucks.
You know what else sucks? My game.
I really wanted to hold off on saying this, but . . . A couple of days ago, last weekend I believe, I attempted to Sim. Now, as much as I wanted to, I didn't play the Winters. Instead, I started a new file and found that my game was crashing every two to ten minutes.
I know from experience that this only ends one way.
A little glimmer of hope surfaced within me. Maybe it didn't affect the Winters, I thought. I was wrong. In fact, it was worse. I remained resilient though. Every solution that I could find, I tried. This was the focus of my weekend until Sunday rolled around. I knew that things weren't going to change unless I did the inevitable.
I put the Winters save in a different folder and then wiped my entire Sims 3 folder. After starting the game back up and getting all the proper files back, I returned the Winters save to the save folder. On a previous game I played, it didn't work. I could get back into the save, but it would still crash. With the Winters save, I couldn't even access the save. I removed CC, looked for solutions, you name it. Nothing worked. After clicking on the start button, the game would freeze up and crash.
I hate to say it, but this is the end of the Winters. There's nothing I can do now.
I'm not going to stop writing though. In my free time, I've been practicing a lot. I feel as though my writing skills have improved, and hopefully my Sim storytelling skills have improved as well. I will be writing a new story based around fairy tales.
I officially get out of school May 16th, but there will be time before that where it's not necessary to go to school (finals and whatnot). Until then, I'll be working on the neighborhood and getting things ready. I will also be planning and plotting the story.
I'm truly sorry everyone. I wanted the Winters to live, but things were out of my control. I hope those of you following the story will continue to follow and support me and my new story. That would mean the world to me. (: