What is your favorite pokemon to write about/Which one would you most like to write about? Why?
easily the Treecko line. As the anime has portrayed, they could be quite the melee fighters, and they've got a wide movepool to pull it off with (they've got a great selection of special moves as well). Now, several people like Grovyle more than Sceptile, but the way I see it, Sceptile is the perfect representation of power combined with speed. I'll agree, its Sugimori artwork isn't that great... makes it look kinda fat and laidback, but the anime managed to portray Ash's in a much better light, thankfully. With a slightly trimmer redesign, it really shouldn't be hard to picture it like a swift-moving assassin.... hell, some of my inspiration for its battle choreography comes from Renamon (Digimon Tamers). They look a little alike when you think about it: human posture, bulky thighs, legs that bend backwards, pointed snout (or rather something of a beak in Sceptile's case), and interestingly enough, they're both meant to be agile.
As purple_drake mentioned, Unown's a very interesting Pokemon as well, albeit extremely under-appreciated (I find it interesting to collect the alphabets and see what each of their Hidden Powers is like.... it probably won't be used in competitive battling, but in single-player RPG tradition, it's always fun to go around picking off small fry in random battles ^^). And being so shrouded in mystery, and supposedly being related to legendaries, how could you not take advantage of that? Speaking of legendaries, a lot of them are interesting to write about as well, if only for all the creation myths that canon surrounds them with.
Also, as much as I enjoy speedy fighters, I've got an appreciation for the slow types as well. In particular, my erogee will feature a number of small, stubby Pokemon (Cacnea, Aron, Trapinch), and as I probably mentioned before, I intend to portray speeds accurately and consistently from the games (as opposed to the route the anime took, in which a friggin' turtle zips all over the place -_-). It'd be interesting to see them battle in spite of their lack of movement, and outside of battle, I'm picturing their slow movements to appear rather cute, even making for some funny situations.
Do you ever get that feeling in writing where you just don't want to write anymore?
I've got a discontinued narrative and script, so I'd have to say "yes". I guess I lost interest because, aside from the fact that I started to think my narrative style sucked (not so much script, but still.... I wanted a manga from the offset), I felt the story was turning into a complete mess (which is all the more reason I am seriously planning things out ahead of time now). Back when I wrote a narrative, I was just getting out a story that my brother began and gave up on, and it wasn't until later I realized how many of his early ideas (as well as ideas for later that he told me about) really weren't working out, and overall seemed extremely half-assed at that (I'm currently wondering just what the hell I saw in them).
For instance, "Hiro" (who was pretty much my brother's self-insert) and his friend "Chris" (my brother actually has a friend named that, too) are suddenly invited by Professor Elm to go to Newbark Town to discuss seeing the legendary beasts awaken when they just so happened to be there (as if they couldn't just discuss it with Elm right there when he happened to be visiting Ecruteak). Also, Kenta from the Crystal special (later given the English name Jimmy) joins up with Hiro, and trying to fit into anime continuity, he's finished half of his gyms and did some backtracking for whatever reason, so..... he's kinda left doing nothing but stagnating in the background half the time (and I doubt he would've done anything important anyway). The script wasn't much better.... sure, I took time to develop the characters more, and cut out several of the unnecessary things, but I feel I went overboard with my "attempts" to make the story seem more deep. Seriously, Hiro's homesickness seems kinda shoved into the reader's face.... no, more than that, it's outright jammed down their throats. What's even sadder: I didn't even agree with the theme I was trying to come up with.... I was going to have later chapters focus on getting Hiro try to appreciate Pokemon battling. So what, he's pretty much forced into it? And he's supposed to see it as more important than his regular life that he treasures so much? That's kinda ****ed up, wouldn't you think?
Do you have any fics/one shots planned for the future? If so, what?
Of course... in fact, pretty much everything I've talked about is only in the planning stages right now (unless you want to count the serial, for which I've written and discontinued earlier versions of).
Take the Harry Potter series - technically readers are forced to conveniently forget about the existence of time-travel in it in order for the story to work out at all, because the time-travel is too unrestricted and technically somebody could just go back in time and undo, say, the birth of Voldemort. (The only reason given in the books for not doing so is that in the particular context time-travel was actually used would involve the main characters seeing their own future selves in the past, which would freak them out too much - there are no technical restrictions on causing paradoxes at all.)
the whole "you shouldn't see yourself in a different time" thing has gotta be one of the crappiest time-travel ideas I've heard of. In all actuality, your past (or even your future) selves are no doubt going to be affected by every small little detail that no doubt results from you being there in the first place, so seeing your own face is nothing more than pouring water into a pond. Even though no one asked, I would like to present my personal analysis on the whole matter of time travel.
Some of you might be familiar with what's called "the butterfly effect", in which a butterfly fluttering its wings in one place can cause a hurricane in another. Now maybe it's not that extreme, but nonetheless, the butterfly's presence is causing a small change to occur in air currents. Should you place that butterfly there a few minutes ago, it'd no doubt be too insignificant to matter. However, the further back you go, the larger an impact every tiny change will have.... given a few years, possibly even centuries, that small change in air movement actually could cause a hurricane somewhere in the world.... or, it could slightly move a hurricane that one area was supposed to have over to a completely different area. Nonetheless, this shows how significant change over much build-up. Similarly, if you were to move just a grain of sand, it probably won't impact a rock during wind erosion (or it will hit a rock it wasn't supposed to hit). It doesn't sound like much, but given a million years, that could be a countless number of impacts that single grain was or wasn't supposed to make (quite easily the same number of impacts needed to take out a boulder).
Chain events are also a problem. If you were to stop World War II from happening, certain soldiers who should've been killed will end up producing a child with someone who was supposed to move on and find another mate. Hell, every small conversation and event each person has in their life could easily effect their future partnership, lineage, as well as those of other people they encounter. And going back on the butterfly effect, one has to take how we're conceived into consideration. It's not so simple as "Marty's gotta make his parents kiss at the dance". Getting really technical here, we result from the combination of two single-cells. With millions of sperm fighting to get to that egg, so not only must the time of conception be exact, but causing your ancestors to shift so much as a millimeter will cause a different person to be born. One must also consider the diets the parents take to produce their sex cells (as well as the unborn fetus), and even if the right sperm made it to the egg, how can one insure the chances of the parents' genes dividing to match the genes that their offspring's supposed to have? Even the correct person could end up with traits from one parent that they should've had from the other.... being born the opposite sex is also an easy possibility.
Thankfully, fiction often overlooks these sort of technicalities. Nonetheless, realistic time-travel (assuming my theories hold weight) is extremely dangerous and not to be taken lightly. Though, even fiction tends to have enough sense not to send someone back 200 years, cause/prevent a large incident, and expect everything to be completely fine in the present (unless it's applying the alternate universe theory, a theory I'm actually rather fond of).
