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?"
WanderingWendaline
Farmer
Lolll, I never thought of it like that, but now that you've suggested it I am adopting this belief XDThanks 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?"
Cuddlebug
Local Legend
It wasn't only Big Steve who said so. I think, everyone who does creative things knows about inspiration and creativity being such divas sometimes.
For me it's helpful to talk to others who do the same and get their feedback, sometimes you're too close to your own project to see a way out.
Or just change your place for a while, get out of your everyday chores and get different input.
But don't expect wonders, writing is hard work anyway (and a lot of fun on the other hand
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Terdin
Local Legend
I'd say it depends. When there was a NaNoWriMo site, there were several there that put a specific word where they needed to fix descriptions and stuff later. One put XXXX, just so it could be easily searched for without false positives. Another used ELEPHANT for a story that didn't have any elephants, which led to some hilarity.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?"
My early novels had a tendency to read more like scripts, and I'm still doing one round of editing to make sure I have enough description. If you keep in mind that stuff can be fixed with revision and editing, it doesn't matter if the first draft is just you figuring out your story and interactions. It doesn't need to be perfect.
Icy cold over here. Needed to get the winter boots out of the closet. Definitely November.Cold and grey and rainy today, november has finally found us...
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