This story has an interesting history as I've been working on it on and off since I was 18 years old. (I'm 30 now, btw) I started working on it in my senior year of high school as a Sims story, first with The Sims 2, then TS3, and finally TS4. The first draft of this story as a SimLit is already done, but I'm not gonna post it here or on any Sims forums because, frankly...If you think this is bad, then the first draft was even worse. While my beta readers seemed to enjoy the main meat and potatoes of my story, there were a lot of issues that I'm hoping to iron out with this second draft. A lot of telling and not showing, badly described scenes and characters, exposition dumps, etc. I'm hoping that now that I'm embarking on a mission to rewrite this novel, it'll grow into something worthwhile.
If I were to describe The Scandal in a nutshell, I would say that it's a gay bear-themed romantic drama with some elements of coming-of-age and thriller, so if you're into big beefy daddy bears and reading about coming out and accepting yourself as gay, this is the story for you!
This is a very personal story for me, as I started writing it when I was struggling to accept myself as gay as a high schooler; writing this has been a form of catharsis for me. I hope you all like it, but I'm not under any illusions that I've written the next Great American Novel.
This is simply my story.