Perfectionist,artistic

[mimas]

How these traits affect writing? I mean exactly affect.
In List of writing genres trait influence here on forum i can see that artistic is good for writers because it  improves quality.
But on traits section on Carls site and sims 3 wiki sites i can not see this.  I can only see that it improves speed of learning.
So where is the truth?

Similar thing for Perfectionist i tought that more time = more money 1:1. Minimum 1:1.
But i have read (here on forum), that this is not truth and Perefectionist is negative Traits.
 
So i do not know. I have thought that It will be clear because game is out for log time.

[Wai]

Perfections is a two edged sword.  Perfectionists paint better (more expensive) pictures and write better books, but, they take significantly longer doing it.  They take longer over several other tasks too I believe.  Certainly they take longer cooking.  And, they make their beds even if they are late for work!

[mimas]

Perfections is a two edged sword.  Perfectionists paint better (more expensive) pictures and write better books, but, they take significantly longer doing it.  They take longer over several other tasks too I believe.  Certainly they take longer cooking.  And, they make their beds even if they are late for work!

I know but is it 1:1 ?  Time : Money?

What about artistic?

[bubbles]

Artistic sims write better stories and improve the writing skill a bit faster, whilst perfectionists take longer to write but also get a better outcome. Personally, I would make a writer artistic, a perfectionist, a bookworm, a loner and ambitious. Try to fulfill as many wishes as possible so you can get Lifetime Rewards to keep the motives high.

[azokka361]

Couch Potato and Hates the Outdoors are really good because a Couch Potato gets a mood boost from a comfy chair, and sims who Hate the Outdoors don't get stir-crazy from being at home.

[Joria]

couch potato and loner so doesn't go stir crazy.

[Janna]

What about computer whiz?  Isn't that necessary? 

I don't focus on the money, so I don't know what traits are best, I go for what I want to have in a personal dynasty. 
So, my sims traits would be seen as at the lower end of the selections; Computer W, Family-Oriented, Bookworm, Loves Outdoors (for collecting and gathering when she get squirrely), Artistic, and either H. Romantic, Good Sense of Humor or Cooking.  I have a hard time resisting the cooking one, a sim has to eat more than juice, bread and jam and canned soup. 

Still, I would think that computer whiz would be necessary as they are on the computer a lot. 

[Joria]

When I build a writer I choose Bookworm, Couch Potato, Loner, Hopeless Romantic, and Either Good Sense of Humor or Handy.  Why Handy?  All the times the computer breaks down!  I then read up any books that might help,  make sure they have Steel Bladder and Hardly Hungry and sometimes Dirt Defiant.  It saves a lot of time if they don't have to pee or eat often.  I give them each of the incense burners all going in the same room.  I make sure there is music going for that good moodlet.  I make sure the room gives that beautifully decorated moodlet which can be achieved with that first, cheap, vase in buy mode, (costs $1), and that they have a nice desk and a really comfy chair.  Then they start cranking out four of each of the fastest to write books.  I don't have them write more than 4 of any genre at first because I want them to write best sellers concistently on their masterpieces to get more value.  By the time they are ready to write a masterpiece they will have unlocked every genre, probably maxed if not supermaxed writing and will be rolling in dough.  Once they've written 5 masterpieces they can write whatever they want or never write again.

[Schipperke]

One of my favourite traits for a writer is Neurotic, because freaking out every so often keeps them from becoming stressed by all the writing.  Most of my writers focus on Childrens' Books, and I usually give them the Childish trait to help with that.  As mentioned by others, Couch Potato, Loner and Bookworm are also prime traits for a writer.  Hates the Outdoors is also useful if you want a writer that doesn't get stir-crazy.

[Sarabi]

My testing has shown that a writer without the perfectionist trait will crank out 25% more pages per hour than a writer with the trait.

The benefit of the trait (and reduced production rate) seems to be a higher frequency of hits and best sellers.  Keeping a writer's mood high will also give you a higher rate of hits and best sellers, though - so if you are able to keep your writer happy, most of their work will be hits and best sellers, anyway.

[Janna]

curious,
are the sims you playing a single one, with no plans to have a family?

I would bet that is a big difference in how traits are chosen and how you have your sim write books.  For me, I am focusing on a family with the author as a means of income while the mate works, usually, a rabbit hole job.  The author is able to work between taking care of the home, having a child, raising him/her and writing books and or painting.  When the mate comes home they take over the child care, may cook dinner, (one of my families the mate is a chef, so he cooks the meals) paint or collect gems.   
 
I work first for the no bills over the steel bladder as the bills can add up when you have a nice home.  I send each sim generally to China (have the A game) hoping to get the five metals, they make a bundler of money doing that (last trip my sim made over $300,000).  Bring back from China the books in the base camp and you will have anywhere from 10,000 or more to help with expenses at home. 
Strictly as a single game with just my one sim, I would be going with the either G.. S. of Humor or Romantic and C. Whiz, Loner, Artistic and Bookworm

[cndneh]

I like Slob for someone who stays indoors/lives alone as well.  If you are pushed for time (challenges for example) and no one is cooking then you cook one group meal and they can eat that all week even when it goes bad, and you can lick the plate, and you don't care if the place gets dirty, or you smell etc. 

Doesn't affect the writing, just keeps the writer happier when the place gets dirty.

[Vincent]

Does Artistic increase the Pages-Per-Minute (PPM) cranked out or the royalty payout, or does it just increase the chance of best-sellers and hits?

If the latter is the case, then it is nearly useless to sims trying to max royalties per week, because best-sellers and hits are easy to achieve by keeping mood high and specializing in a genre.

I also wonder about traits like Hopeless Romantic. Do they increase the royalties of the genre they affect, or just the chance of best-sellers and hits? Or worse, do they have no function at all except for allowing you to write this type of novel starting from a lower skill level?

The reason I don't like Slob for a writer is that you can hire a maid pretty soon, or live together with a Neat sim to clean up for you.

[LemonBonBons]

When I choose writer sims their traits are usually Bookworm, Artistic, Couch Potato, Computer Whiz and Hates the Outdoors so you can focus on the book-writing with out your sim going stir crazy or disgusted by dirty plates, ect. and being a Bookworm helps the writing skill a bit more, as well as Artistic.