Hello readers! Thank you for checking out "Give me a Word, I'll Give you a Story". This is sort of a preliminary chapter where I get to explain to you all my plans for this collection of oneshots. I'll try to be brief, I promise x).

So, I came up with this idea in the shower. I was thinking about how much I love words, and how words often serve as inspiration for my stories. Someone says a word, just one word, and BOOM! I have a story idea in my head. I then started thinking about collections of oneshots I've seen on here, where people take requests and write oneshots based on those requests. I then combined the two thoughts (words and oneshot collections) and thought, hey! Maybe I could do a collection of oneshots where I write each chapter based on words given to me by reviewers!

That in bold is the basic premise of "Give me a Word, I'll Give you a Story". You, faithful fanfictioners, are going to 'request' for oneshots by giving me a word, one singular word. I'll then take that word, and write a story that's centered around that word in some way.

The words you give can be absolutely anything (which is the fun part :D). You can give me random nouns (ex. lamp, bookcase, pumpkin, dog...), verbs (ex. running, swimming, laughing, crying...), adjectives (ex. happy, irritable, monotonous, odd...), abstract ideas (ex. serenity, jealousy, euphoria, love...), and pretty much anything else under the sun. Please, challenge me! Give me words, and see what I can do with them!

Here's an example of how a request might go:

Reviewer number 1: Here's a word! Kite.

Then I'll take the word kite, and brainstorm an idea about it, eventually resulting in a oneshot chapter based on the word kite.

A summary might go something like this: "As kids, Luke and Bo would often go out on windy days to fly kites together. However, these two apprentices have grown apart over the years. Those kite flying days seem distant to Luke now, but he can't help taking a moment to sit back and reminisce about how things once were."

Just like that, the word 'kite' turns into a story about Luke and Bo's fluctuating friendship over the years.

Of course, if you've only played certain harvest moon games, or want a story to be written about one or two characters in particular, or even want a particular genre for your story, you can add specifications to your request.

Examples:

Reviewer 1: I want a story centered around the word "cake", and it should be about characters from Island of Happiness.

Reviewer 2: I want a story about the word "skill", and it should be featuring Angela and Chase.

Reviewer 3: I want a story with the word "turtle", and it should be a romantic humor story about Claire and Cliff.

Any of these would be acceptable! The only thing that I won't take is someone telling me how to write my story. (i.e "I want a story with the word marshmellow, and Claire and Grey should be on a camping trip, and a bear should come, and they should kiss.")
No. I won't do that. The whole point of this from my end is to exercise my creative abilities by working off of a word in order to write an original oneshot of my own design.

I think that these oneshots will be a great way for me to keep up my writing during the school year! (although I'll try my best not to neglect my other stories!). To summarize this whole big thing; you send in a word, I write about it. It should be quite interesting :D!

So please, start sending in requests! I can't promise that I'll take all requests, but I'll certainly do my best. It'll be your requests that drive this story, and I'll start writing as soon as you start giving me words. I hope that this can become something really great! Thanks for reading :).