Terdin
Local Legend
Ouch. But at least you got some nice presents. Hopefully you're on the way to recovery.
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Retek
Farmhand
Aww I'm sorry to hear that, hopefully things are better now.
Belated happy birthday though, and Terraria is a LOVELY gift! Hopefully you make new, fun memories playing the game that wash out the terrible ones. <3
Shy_Blue_Jellyfish
Farmhand
Hello everyone I'm new around here, I just wanted to wish you a great day/afternoon/night!
Retek
Farmhand
Hiii welcomee! :D
Shy_Blue_Jellyfish
Farmhand
Today it feels more like winter here, I think it's time for my comfy hoodie to wear, get a cup of hot chocolate and play SDV and draw.
Terdin
Local Legend
Reached the mid-point of the fanfic novel. I guess I'd better try to find time to make a thread in the fan works and start publishing it, despite trying to add 50,000 words to it during November... Yep. Doing NaNo, keeping track of word count on a post-it note, and so far I'm above par.
Gamer1234556
Farmer
Man... AO3 being down means uh... I have like... 20+ novels of my fanfic that I am either done or working on.
Year 1
Spring turned into 3 books.
Summer turned into 4 books.
Fall turned into a complete mess with about like... 7 novels that are in this awkward timeline where events are happening concurrently and I am still trying to figure out if I need to edit it further... seriously... Fall was a complete mess that took months for me to rework into something that satisfied me. It also departed from Eric being the main protag and having the side characters doing their own thing up until the Desert starts coming to play, and then I got to the Stardew Valley Fair... I am not sure if I can really spoil it, but it's absolutely insane when compared to the games... so I might release it sometime later when AO3 comes back up.
And Winter... surprisingly enough turned into 3 books, but went into an insane lore dive to the point where I was wondering if I made a random genre shift into LOTR. Expansion in the Dwarves, Shadowkin, creative liberties with the Witch and the Dwarf King... insane geopolitics with the Ferngill PM, Joja CEO, and a massive jump in scale.
Year 2
Spring actually has two marriages... I won't spoil which ones... but I might release them depending on what happens with AO3... stay tuned.
Summer is where I am on so far... and it's less intense than Summer Year 1... but has it's complications and I am currently working on.
I am also working on a bunch of prequel stuff... like an explanation as to how my version of Pelican Town, featuring Eric's grandpa and stuff, some dedicated stories to the characters before Eric comes to Pelican Town, some alt stories... what have you. Really, I lost track as to what I am even writing because maintaining this massive continuity with ten million characters has been pretty tough... not to mention I borrowed some characters from mods like Expanded with my own creative liberties... as well as scrapped or obscure characters from the games that most probably don't know.
But uh... yeah... sorry if I didn't have any activity. I still have some old drafts of the books if you are interested... but without AO3 I might not be doing much. I have been working on some analysis stuff here in the meantime lol... yeah I have a lot of free time on my hands despite school being a miserable experience IRL... but yeah just an update lmao.
Year 1
Spring turned into 3 books.
Summer turned into 4 books.
Fall turned into a complete mess with about like... 7 novels that are in this awkward timeline where events are happening concurrently and I am still trying to figure out if I need to edit it further... seriously... Fall was a complete mess that took months for me to rework into something that satisfied me. It also departed from Eric being the main protag and having the side characters doing their own thing up until the Desert starts coming to play, and then I got to the Stardew Valley Fair... I am not sure if I can really spoil it, but it's absolutely insane when compared to the games... so I might release it sometime later when AO3 comes back up.
And Winter... surprisingly enough turned into 3 books, but went into an insane lore dive to the point where I was wondering if I made a random genre shift into LOTR. Expansion in the Dwarves, Shadowkin, creative liberties with the Witch and the Dwarf King... insane geopolitics with the Ferngill PM, Joja CEO, and a massive jump in scale.
Year 2
Spring actually has two marriages... I won't spoil which ones... but I might release them depending on what happens with AO3... stay tuned.
Summer is where I am on so far... and it's less intense than Summer Year 1... but has it's complications and I am currently working on.
I am also working on a bunch of prequel stuff... like an explanation as to how my version of Pelican Town, featuring Eric's grandpa and stuff, some dedicated stories to the characters before Eric comes to Pelican Town, some alt stories... what have you. Really, I lost track as to what I am even writing because maintaining this massive continuity with ten million characters has been pretty tough... not to mention I borrowed some characters from mods like Expanded with my own creative liberties... as well as scrapped or obscure characters from the games that most probably don't know.
But uh... yeah... sorry if I didn't have any activity. I still have some old drafts of the books if you are interested... but without AO3 I might not be doing much. I have been working on some analysis stuff here in the meantime lol... yeah I have a lot of free time on my hands despite school being a miserable experience IRL... but yeah just an update lmao.
Shy_Blue_Jellyfish
Farmhand
I'm feeling pretty good mentally and physically health wise today, probably take a walk then watch a anime or movie later.
slipping_jimmy
Cowpoke
I try to write. I used to do text based role plays and short fan fics. I've been working on a book but it's been a fight. I struggle with writers block, personal issues that interfere with creativity and wondering if it's just time to scrap it. But it keeps calling to me. I've only written 25,000 or so words so far but a fantasy-scifi generally requires a minimum of 70,000 words. I keep wondering where I'm going to pull that much more content out of my storehouse.
Welp! Stephen King said writing is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration. I struggle with details about surroundings and filler. I don't want to bore anyone with unnecessary words but I'm just stumped. Maybe I'm not cut out for writing novels. It's too bad the short story went the way if the dinosaur. Decades ago there was a better market for short stories for magazines. I've never published anything professionally but I doubt if the New Yorker will be banging in my door for short stories. I think Brokeback Mountain was published as a small series in the New Yorker. Both the movie and the book broke my heart
WanderingWendaline
Farmer
When I'm having trouble describing something, or need to do more research before I can describe it properly, I just put placeholder text and keep writing what I already know. The placeholder usually looks like "/!\ room description /!\" or something similar, so I can find it again fairly easily.
Maybe something like that could be helpful, if you haven't tried it already?
slipping_jimmy
Cowpoke
Thanks for the tip! I never thought of that. Do you think they would appear as orange road cones to my characters?
I can see my main slapping the steering wheel and yelling, "Will they ever finish this stinking road?"
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