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[bobandbill]

My main fic would definitely use a lot in the way of Colosseum music. Which isn't really surprising. In fact, sometimes I use mentions of said music in specific places for the heck of it (e.g. in a place in which a harmonica plays, there is a character who plays a harmonica) - and then of course, there's Miror B's salsa music. XD

There are some other songs that would play though... including various scenes in my mind. Some I've actually used in chapters (once I parodied a song, and another I made use of the Beatles 'All you need is Love'... in a different way), along with the odd song reference. A fair few songs also tend to fit scenes in my mind, including alternate version of scenes I came up with if they were ever acted out, varying from stuff like Coldplay (Life in Technicolor), The Doors (People are Strange), Black-Eyed Peas (Pump It), and even the Benny Hill theme. XD The list goes on.

My one-shot would probably have more in the way of instrumental music, and some sad songs as well, or least-ways in my mind.

 

[Bay]

bobandbill is right, An-Chan. I would revise A LOT, including the endings. Heck, I finished NE before even posting it, but I would still always change the events and such if I feel that would make the story more better. So yeah, if you feel the changes will be good, go for it! :)

what is the music that you would use in your fanfiction, if any!?

Been a while since I answered that question. Still love it, though. :P

My musical tastes change from time to time, so the music I use for my fanfiction would change too. For NE, it would consist a lot of musical scores from Harry Gregson-Williams (Kingdom of Heaven, the first Chronicles of Narnia), Hans Zimmer (Da Vinci Code, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, POTC: At World's End), and Clint Mansell (The Fountain, Requiem of a Dream).

 

[Elite Overlord LeSabre™]

what is the music that you would use in your fanfiction, if any!?
Question edited to, "What songs have I used in my Fan-fiction?"

Non-exhaustive list:
Starship - Nothing's Gonna Stop Us
Richard Marx - Endless Summer Nights
Amy Grant - Every Heartbeat
Michael W. Smith - Place In This World
No Secrets - I'll Remember You
Richard Marx/Donna Lewis - At the Beginning (I actually base an entire fic around this one)

Oh yeah, and a Village People parody called "The Po-Ke Cen-Ter!"

 

[Giratina ♀]

what is the music that you would use in your fanfiction, if any!?

Usually a lot of video-game scores (not just from Pokemon, but from the awesomely epic The World Ends with You and the Final Fantasy Fable series - they usually have great instrumentals).

There was one scene that I thought of and wrote just by listening to Chocobo's Dungeon's Labyrinth of Forgotten Time.

A month after I finished the story.

 

[.Ozymandias]

What is the music that you would use in your fanfiction, if any!?

I would use a lot of the stuff off Muse's Absolution album - it's so dramatic, particularly Butterflys and Hurricanes, that it would suit some of the more intense moments planned for A Darker Day.

 

[JX Valentine]

Question about mechanics. Now, we can debate whether or not, within a fic, pokémon and all its species' names should be capitalized or not, but putting all that aside, what I'm wondering is if you're of the camp that doesn't capitalize those names, do you capitalize move names? For example, if you write something like "a growlithe is a fire-type pokémon that can be caught with any poké ball," do you also write "the growlithe used Flamethrower" or "the growlithe used flamethrower"?

The reason I ask is because I'm going back and forth about it myself. On the one hand, it'd be consistent to keep everything lowercase. On the other, I also don't consider the names of moves common nouns so much as the names of specific techniques, like how martial arts styles like the Praying Mantis tend to be capitalized too.

So, long story short, what's your take on capitalization rules when it comes to moves? Always capitalize, or is it possible to capitalize, depending on your style?

 

[txteclipse]

I always capitalize pokémon names, and I also capitalize move names. That's the way the games are formatted, so I guess it just carried over into my writing.

 

[Negrek]

I don't capitalize anything. In part to keep it consistent; in part because I am lazy and the shift key is sooooo far away...

In all seriousness, though, I don't care about attack names much; to me it looks awkward to have loads of capitalized words riddling dialogue when there's a battle going on, though. The thing about special techniques being capitalized--doesn't always happen. For example, the names of special tricks and techniques in sports such as skateboarding aren't capitalized (you don't perform a Kickflip), and in some martial arts and similar disciplines you don't capitalize specific technique names, either.

That shift key is way out there, honestly. Why do all the exercise?

 

[Swift!]

I'm with txteclipse on this one, I always capitalize Pokemon names and moves. The games influenced me to do so and I don't have any intention of change it.

 

[Bay]

Pretty much I capitalize both Pokemon names and moves as that's basically how it is in the games. On the other hand, Pokemon items I don't capitalize, even though they are in the game. I guess I feel weird if the item names are capitalized, but not the Pokemon or move names for some reason. O.o

 

[.Ozymandias]

I capitalise moves and pokémon names; to me it just makes more sense. I know the debate about proper nouns and stuff is redundant, but I treat them as proper nouns, so do capitalise them. It's up to you, what you prefer to do.

 

[Elite Overlord LeSabre™]

Yes, I also capitalize Pokemon and attack names. Force of habit, I think. The games treat them as proper nouns, so...

 

[Venia Silente]

I may be the strange one here: I capitalize move names, as long as they don't sound like a verb. Like, for example, "Calm Mind" or "Extrasensory" I do capitalized, but "tackle" and "roar" I do not. And to further emphasize the point, I try to actually avoid move names when possible.

I do so mostly out of common sense. Tackling is just the action of pushing one's body against the victim's. There's nothing so special about it that the attack would have to be capitalized: it's not a super-ultra technique like a Kamehameha, or an action so unique that the procedure for it can be patented (and thus requiring capitalization as well as a ™ or a ® or a ©: just imagine "Dustox! Begin with Confusion©!"). Same with roaring, leering, biting, surfing, and pretty much all "one-word" moves. It doen't make sense to emphasize the move names that way if they are not exactly something to be capitalized either out-of-universe, or in-universe.

I guess it goes on hand with the fact that, despite item names are capitalized, some of them definitively shouldn't, either out-of-universe, or in-universe. I mean, Full Restore may be all OK, as well as PP Up, but... Spoon? (yes, it is an item in 3rd Gen)

But as I said: I prefer to try and play it safe by wording the commands around the attack name. Less to worry about that way.

 

[Bay]

Don't worry, you're not strange, Solovino. :)

Ya know, I actually capitalize the common verb commands like "Bite" and "Tackle" if the trainer would say it this way: "Eevee, use Tackle!" as to me they're referring to a very specific command. However, if they just say like, "Go and bite him!" I don't capitalize "Bite" as the trainer is more telling him what to do instead of just saying a move name. Meh, that's just me, though.

 

[bobandbill]

I tend to capitlise moves, Pokemon names, and Items - I go by the fact that it's done by the game,s did it when I first started, and it just stays this way, I suppose.

But...if, say, the move is, as Bay said, not given as an actual command like that but instead is used like a general sort of push or shove or so forth, than it doesn't get the capital. I believe that if the Pokemon can actually go and tackle something, or bite something, or scratch something, than it quite possibly do that in battle - but that is different from the actual move itself. (Somehow I think I'm being vague... ah well).

 

[Grovyle42(Griff8416)]

I believe I'm in the same realm as Bay and Bobandbill on this matter.

 

[.Ozymandias]

Okay, new question guys and gals, something that just occured to me to ask. Hope none of you mind!

Do you get nervous when first starting out in a new fandom?

(This can apply to people who are just starting out in a fandom, or who are only involved in one and always have been.)

For me, I'm just starting out in a new fandom, and though I know what I want to write, I have been truly spoilt by the level of quality in said fandom, and now I am rather nervous about even starting to write the plot bunny humping my leg! So I'd say yes, I do get (and am!) very nervous about posting.

 

[JX Valentine]

Thanks to the people who responded about capitalization. I didn't realize the capitalization rules are actually not as clear cut as I thought they were. I can definitely understand .Swift's point (because that's pretty much the argument of the "capitalize species names" camp in a nutshell), and I definitely see Negrek's point as well. I just didn't realize there was a third camp of people like solvino who do things half-and-half. (Maybe I should read other people's work a bit more often.)

Anyway...

Do you get nervous when first starting out in a new fandom?

Admittedly, when writing it, yes. Because I'm a bit of a canon nazi, I know that every show, franchise, or whatever that one could possibly follow has a certain set of canon rules. I'm always afraid I'd inadvertently violate them, particularly when working with characters I know but haven't really experimented with a lot. For example, I've got a few Good Omens fics floating in Other Writing. It took me two and a half read-throughs of the book to get Aziraphale and Crowley, and even then, I'm not entirely sure if I got them right. And don't even get me started on the Evangelion fic that's on my old FFNet account. Positive reviews, but I swear to God, I'm going to rewrite those one day because I could do better with Kaworu. ;_;

Of course, fanfiction readers tend not to care if you're off slightly so long as you don't do anything glaringly obvious (depending on the community and the fandom), but I'm just anal because I'm always terrified that I did do something glaringly obvious.

But for advice for you, I'd say post it anyway. The best way to get into the fandom is just to get it out and over with and see what the audience thinks. If you're careful enough about working with the fandom the first time, you can probably still pull it off, and once you get a few stories out, you'll start warming up to the fandom.

 

[.Ozymandias]

Admittedly, when writing it, yes. Because I'm a bit of a canon nazi, I know that every show, franchise, or whatever that one could possibly follow has a certain set of canon rules. I'm always afraid I'd inadvertently violate them, particularly when working with characters I know but haven't really experimented with a lot. For example, I've got a few Good Omens fics floating in Other Writing. It took me two and a half read-throughs of the book to get Aziraphale and Crowley, and even then, I'm not entirely sure if I got them right. And don't even get me started on the Evangelion fic that's on my old FFNet account. Positive reviews, but I swear to God, I'm going to rewrite those one day because I could do better with Kaworu. ;_;

Of course, fanfiction readers tend not to care if you're off slightly so long as you don't do anything glaringly obvious (depending on the community and the fandom), but I'm just anal because I'm always terrified that I did do something glaringly obvious.

But for advice for you, I'd say post it anyway. The best way to get into the fandom is just to get it out and over with and see what the audience thinks. If you're careful enough about working with the fandom the first time, you can probably still pull it off, and once you get a few stories out, you'll start warming up to the fandom.

I'm the same, particularly with this fandom I'm starting out in; I've done the research and I know the characters pretty well, it's just a case of writing the darn thing now! Thanks for the advice, I think I may well just write it and stick it out there (sounds somewhat rude, that), and hope for the best. *ponders and awaits more replies*

 

[Astinus]

Do you get nervous when first starting out in a new fandom?
I'm fortunate that the fandom I decided to join recently is a very friendly community for new members to join. It's the Sims 2 fandom that's LJ-based. Everyone knows everyone else, and when someone new joins, then it's a warm, friendly welcome.

While sometimes it is difficult to get comments on a new story if you are a new member, as long as you keep at it, then the comments will come. And they'll come even more if you actually break out of your shell and relax.

Really, TS2 fandom on LJ is one that has a main focus of goofing off and having fun. Heck, I don't even remember a huge fight that was LJ-fandom based, aside from the small itty-bitty wanky bits.

And there's no canon wars. :D

Short answer because: lol work.