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FairyRing
Farmer
Getting closer to posting my written fanfic. I'm nervous though so I keep having to talk myself into it. I don't want to start a new thread, if I do post it. So I think I may post it here. I've been trying to make it okay to read. I'm still up in the air about it though. I've been writing it for myself over the course of a few months so I have stuff down. Since I've been reading Middlewalk and Have Read "The Bobbi tales" I like the similarities due to the SDV content with all the personal twists and differences. and having them side by side makes it possible, it would be cool to add a funky fairy layer... maybe.
Lew Zealand
Helper
Whenever you're ready, Fey. For me I just needed to spam it here because it was banging around the inside of my head and wouldn't let go. And the echo... that was too much. So out it came and this was the landing zone.
Do it for you. If anyone here likes it, then accept that collateral damage. And clearly Dr. Eel and I have different styles of writing and even presentation as I feel the need to have a stiff breeze easily blowing through all my words while he is able to corral his creations into normal-people paragraphs.
And as much as I really super don't like James Joyce thank you very not much English 101, I appreciate that he liberated the language from its shackles and wrestled it to work the way he wanted. It's awful and hideous and different and oddly compelling in its own way, and you can take the very same language and box it about the earholes just as you prefer and twist it to whatever shape speaks to you. And from you.
It's all yours, enjoy it!
Do it for you. If anyone here likes it, then accept that collateral damage. And clearly Dr. Eel and I have different styles of writing and even presentation as I feel the need to have a stiff breeze easily blowing through all my words while he is able to corral his creations into normal-people paragraphs.
And as much as I really super don't like James Joyce thank you very not much English 101, I appreciate that he liberated the language from its shackles and wrestled it to work the way he wanted. It's awful and hideous and different and oddly compelling in its own way, and you can take the very same language and box it about the earholes just as you prefer and twist it to whatever shape speaks to you. And from you.
It's all yours, enjoy it!
Dr. eeL
Farmer
I am a FairyRing fan and will read and celebrate any of your creations. Don't be afraid. Us writer types can stick together, and we can push that old crop fairy aside and make room for some that can do better than to simply make giant pumpkins. Remember this is a forum for gamers (not writers), and if you don't get 10,000 hearts on your first attempt, it is no reflection on you or your writing. Currently, I'm lucky if Middlewalk has all of 3 readers, but I do enjoy living in the Valley in my imagination.
FairyRing
Farmer
@Lew Zealand @Dr. eeL I appreciate you and your words very much. 
starts twitching nervously. I guess that's not my goal. So yeah, no problem
ALLLL MINE! laughs manically.
FairyRing
Farmer
This didn't compute for awhile because uh me and cool have never been a thing. Thanks
୨♥୧ Strawberrisui ୨♥୧
Cowpoke
Nice art! :D
FairyRing
Farmer
Aww thanks!
FairyRing
Farmer
Lew Zealand
Helper
The little things in life are actually the big things in life.You called me Fey
FairyRing
Farmer
FairyRing
Farmer
~Warning Fanfic narrative~
It’s been months since I started this fanfic. Much like Lew it got stuck in my head, would not go away. Funny thing is, writing isn’t my forte but it’s fun and for me that makes it worth it. So I started to write it and its now about 61 pages. Don’t worry I still have a lot of editing to do. I have a hard time sitting still and reading a screen for long periods so I will try to keep things short and sweet. So if it’s painful it will be over quicker?
Since reading the other forum fanfics my hope is that I don’t inadvertently steal ideas, since the ideas permeate my mind upon reading but some crossover ideas may exist. Some things will be fun to share as far as similarities and nods in other stories direction. I have noticed some organic similarities in all 3 stories as well.
I don’t focus a lot on village life and I have a hard time with lots of the little details of the game. But then in same ways I can be oddly specific. I am not chronologically correct as far as the game because some things I want to happen much faster than they do in game. Also I try to catch it but I switch tenses sometimes.
~warning: swearing, alcohol consumption~
1. THE START
I was living a no-where life. I wasn’t even sure if I was alive anymore, technically I was alive but I wasn’t living, wasn’t thriving. I drudged from day to day. At night I cleaned as a janitor for one of the big Joja corp office parks. I wasn’t allowed to talk to anyone, not that I wanted to, but mostly we were supposed to be “ghosts”. Do your work quickly, quietly and efficiently.
Cleaning for people who didn’t even realize another human had to clean up those fingernail clippings, gum and gross trash.
My freekin’ day job was “getting” to phone bank for Joja Life. I’d call people and try to sell them a Joja based life insurance. What a joke.
Did I sleep? A little.
What did I do to forget? I went out dancing and drinking.
Did I say I slept?
One day sitting in my cube pretending to call people and sell them sham coverage, I pulled out an envelope My Grampy had given me years ago. I always had it tucked into my sling pack. It would bring me an odd sort of comfort. I pulled it out of my desk drawer where I had placed it just an hour earlier. I rubbed the paper in between my fingers. I sighed deep. It seemed to emanate some sort of energy whenever I touched it. It had purple sealing wax with the letters PT on it. I popped open the wax seal.
“Come a day… crushed… burdened”. Yeah that sounds about right.
Wait what? Gramps had left me a farm! I hadn’t heard from Grampy in a long time. So it seemed odd he left the farm to me.
He tended to travel, living a footloose and fancy free life. He didn’t like to be tied down, loved finding new adventures and people. I didn’t know he had a farm in StarDew Valley, near Pelican town. The thought of relocating somewhere so far from Zuzu City seemed overwhelming, yet the call away from this barely surviving life was stronger.
I also derived comfort from the fact that two of my best friends moved to Pelican Town a few years previous due to complicated issues. It was hard for a long time without Leah and Elliot.
They both offered to let me live with them when they moved. But I just didn’t feel right about doing that to them.
Leah an artist, Elliot a writer both needed the seclusion that the move to the small town afforded them and I was too afraid to move with them at the time.
I stayed in Zuzu City working to apply energy to a mound of debt I had accumulated.
I’m still in some debt but willing to do anything to get away from the soul sucking city. I decide to make the move to Stardew Valley. I email Leah and Elliot letting them know what’s up. (Yeah right, Elliot doesn’t check the email we set up for him, I don’t think he even has a computer…)
I call Leah and leave her a voicemail too. I don’t hear back from them as I get ready to move. Which isn’t surprising because one of the reasons they left was to immerse themselves in their creative workings and loneliness, I guess.
I didn’t know what there was for me in Pelican Town and wasn’t sure how I would make it. But now I have a farm and a chance to escape the city! I finish my preparations to leave quickly. Packing up very few of my things from the youth hostel “The Prismatic Shard” that I lived at and leaving the rest for the scavengers left behind. Have my shampoo+conditoner+caffine in one Joja-riffic package! I am on to better things!
It’s been months since I started this fanfic. Much like Lew it got stuck in my head, would not go away. Funny thing is, writing isn’t my forte but it’s fun and for me that makes it worth it. So I started to write it and its now about 61 pages. Don’t worry I still have a lot of editing to do. I have a hard time sitting still and reading a screen for long periods so I will try to keep things short and sweet. So if it’s painful it will be over quicker?
Since reading the other forum fanfics my hope is that I don’t inadvertently steal ideas, since the ideas permeate my mind upon reading but some crossover ideas may exist. Some things will be fun to share as far as similarities and nods in other stories direction. I have noticed some organic similarities in all 3 stories as well.
I don’t focus a lot on village life and I have a hard time with lots of the little details of the game. But then in same ways I can be oddly specific. I am not chronologically correct as far as the game because some things I want to happen much faster than they do in game. Also I try to catch it but I switch tenses sometimes.
~warning: swearing, alcohol consumption~
1. THE START
I was living a no-where life. I wasn’t even sure if I was alive anymore, technically I was alive but I wasn’t living, wasn’t thriving. I drudged from day to day. At night I cleaned as a janitor for one of the big Joja corp office parks. I wasn’t allowed to talk to anyone, not that I wanted to, but mostly we were supposed to be “ghosts”. Do your work quickly, quietly and efficiently.
Cleaning for people who didn’t even realize another human had to clean up those fingernail clippings, gum and gross trash.
My freekin’ day job was “getting” to phone bank for Joja Life. I’d call people and try to sell them a Joja based life insurance. What a joke.
Did I sleep? A little.
What did I do to forget? I went out dancing and drinking.
Did I say I slept?
One day sitting in my cube pretending to call people and sell them sham coverage, I pulled out an envelope My Grampy had given me years ago. I always had it tucked into my sling pack. It would bring me an odd sort of comfort. I pulled it out of my desk drawer where I had placed it just an hour earlier. I rubbed the paper in between my fingers. I sighed deep. It seemed to emanate some sort of energy whenever I touched it. It had purple sealing wax with the letters PT on it. I popped open the wax seal.
“Come a day… crushed… burdened”. Yeah that sounds about right.
Wait what? Gramps had left me a farm! I hadn’t heard from Grampy in a long time. So it seemed odd he left the farm to me.
He tended to travel, living a footloose and fancy free life. He didn’t like to be tied down, loved finding new adventures and people. I didn’t know he had a farm in StarDew Valley, near Pelican town. The thought of relocating somewhere so far from Zuzu City seemed overwhelming, yet the call away from this barely surviving life was stronger.
I also derived comfort from the fact that two of my best friends moved to Pelican Town a few years previous due to complicated issues. It was hard for a long time without Leah and Elliot.
They both offered to let me live with them when they moved. But I just didn’t feel right about doing that to them.
Leah an artist, Elliot a writer both needed the seclusion that the move to the small town afforded them and I was too afraid to move with them at the time.
I stayed in Zuzu City working to apply energy to a mound of debt I had accumulated.
I’m still in some debt but willing to do anything to get away from the soul sucking city. I decide to make the move to Stardew Valley. I email Leah and Elliot letting them know what’s up. (Yeah right, Elliot doesn’t check the email we set up for him, I don’t think he even has a computer…)
I call Leah and leave her a voicemail too. I don’t hear back from them as I get ready to move. Which isn’t surprising because one of the reasons they left was to immerse themselves in their creative workings and loneliness, I guess.
I didn’t know what there was for me in Pelican Town and wasn’t sure how I would make it. But now I have a farm and a chance to escape the city! I finish my preparations to leave quickly. Packing up very few of my things from the youth hostel “The Prismatic Shard” that I lived at and leaving the rest for the scavengers left behind. Have my shampoo+conditoner+caffine in one Joja-riffic package! I am on to better things!
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Lew Zealand
Helper
I really love this so far! Especially the connection to Leah and Elliott and the youth hostel! I’ve been trapped away from tech for much of the weekend but want to add some to this later. Whenever you’re ready with more, I’ll be here with eager eyeballs!
FairyRing
Farmer
Yes too true, thanks Doc!
FairyRing
Farmer
It's very weird the connection to E and L just came out as I started to write. For some reason it made sense to me.
FairyRing
Farmer
Ok so my curiosity has been piqued with this and if you forgot or that's all she wrote then I get it.
Lew Zealand
Helper
So I didn't forget. And then I did, on account of a 400 mile drive and 9 hours of overdue writing and general life stuff. Farmer Bobbi is not very far removed from me IRL.Ok so my curiosity has been piqued with this and if you forgot or that's all she wrote then I get it.
The thing that immediately jumped to mind was the sharing ideas bit as that's an age-old tradition and is not only unavoidable but IMO encouraged. Just because someone comes up with an idea doesn't mean that someone else can't adapt it to their work and expand along their own timeline! I realize for copyrighted published works, that's a concern but IMO not here. If someone wanted to write an alt universe Beachy Keen story with a competent, confident, remembery Roberta, I'd love to see it!
I like the personality you're bringing out to your character and had never even thought of a double duty Joja prison from which you're orchestrating your great escape. And of course, I don't even know their name yet!
And as I said, really like the connection to Leah and Elliott, that's such a good angle to come to Pelican Town as you can use them as either exposition or integration into the town, so many opportunities. Such a great idea that never would have occurred to me. Jealous! I can't wait to see what their reactions to you arriving in town will be!
And adding "The Prismatic Shard" is a very nice tip and foreshadowing. I consciously and unconsciously add those type of things to almost every chapter I write, little things that connect what's currently happening to Bobbi to things her future likely will hold. I started this in the first chapter mostly by accident as, if you look, the 5 skills the Farmer must master in the game are mentioned once but in a different context, though actually 'Farming' came in the first paragraph of the second chapter as my brain was absolutely fried by the time I finished the first one and couldn't think of anything.
And IMO those things are the fun bits of writing, the easter eggs you leave for yourself as the writer, even if nobody picks up on them. They're one of those things that keeps me coming back, and finding out those little ideas and flourishes you like to write will do the same.
FairyRing
Farmer
So I didn't forget. And then I did, on account of a 400 mile drive and 9 hours of overdue writing and general life stuff. Farmer Bobbi is not very far removed from me IRL.
The thing that immediately jumped to mind was the sharing ideas bit as that's an age-old tradition and is not only unavoidable but IMO encouraged. Just because someone comes up with an idea doesn't mean that someone else can't adapt it to their work and expand along their own timeline! I realize for copyrighted published works, that's a concern but IMO not here. If someone wanted to write an alt universe Beachy Keen story with a competent, confident, remembery Roberta, I'd love to see it!
I like the personality you're bringing out to your character and had never even thought of a double duty Joja prison from which you're orchestrating your great escape. And of course, I don't even know their name yet!
And as I said, really like the connection to Leah and Elliott, that's such a good angle to come to Pelican Town as you can use them as either exposition or integration into the town, so many opportunities. Such a great idea that never would have occurred to me. Jealous! I can't wait to see what their reactions to you arriving in town will be!
And adding "The Prismatic Shard" is a very nice tip and foreshadowing. I consciously and unconsciously add those type of things to almost every chapter I write, little things that connect what's currently happening to Bobbi to things her future likely will hold. I started this in the first chapter mostly by accident as, if you look, the 5 skills the Farmer must master in the game are mentioned once but in a different context, though actually 'Farming' came in the first paragraph of the second chapter as my brain was absolutely fried by the time I finished the first one and couldn't think of anything.
And IMO those things are the fun bits of writing, the easter eggs you leave for yourself as the writer, even if nobody picks up on them. They're one of those things that keeps me coming back, and finding out those little ideas and flourishes you like to write will do the same.
thanks, and I should add that I appreciate you taking the time to answer.
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