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One tip a day, keeps writer's block away!

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Mimicking Mimikyu, Nov 18: Only write when you want to. Don't try to force it.
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Help Thread

Writing Resources

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Help shall be given!
Venia Silente, Sep 2020: It's a good thing to see all these additions. Frankly, it's time this thread is overhauled rehauled, and having an influx of new tools is a major welcome. So far we seem to be covering enough areas - from writing processors to writing and planning...
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The Curtains are Blue

Palamon, May 15: I would say you probably should read my work deeply, but not everything is a metaphor, or anything like that. Although, I do have references to other media (meta) that I want people to pay attention to and find. This is a lore heavy work, so I want...
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Discussion

Handling Legendaries in Fan Fictions Based on the Games

Reginald Cosmic, May 12: First off, I'm glad you changed it to the correct "Discussion" tab. Thank you. I forgot Goh from the anime caught some legendary Pokémon, and I wasn't aware he just let them roam as they please. I really only know about Goh from nerd stuff like...
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Type type

Stardust Sauce, Apr 29: I don't really carry around a concept of how much "health" my characters have in a fight, so I try to keep my type advantages a little more subtle and grounded than "this attack hurts me twice as much as other attacks do." A fire attack's effects on...
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in my ''future'' pmd comic, what should the plot/story be? please help me! i have no idea at all right now.... >.<

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Alex_Among_Foxes, May 16: I'd be more interested to see what kind of map you'd draw on your own to be honest. The way you see your own comic world matters the most to me personally. Those are neat maps though, so thanks for sharing them! That's cool! But please keep...
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My idea for a Regional Yamask

HufsaTheGreat96, Apr 19: I have seen tons of ideas for regional variants of Yamask and I am probably not the first to come up with this idea, but I really like it and wanted to share it. I do have some sketches, but I'd want to clean them up first before showing them. ...
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Daily

Fanwork Feature: Dunsparce Line

bobandbill, May 12: Article published! Some visual art is featured, and I spat out a couple drabbles as well.
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Writer's Burnout

gimmepie, Apr 4: Writing is both a hobby and a job for me, so I do it pretty much constantly and the burnout that can sometimes create is definitely something I can struggle with. I'm still figuring out how to manage it really but, honestly, the only thing you can...
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"I Wanna Be a Master Chef, Like No One Ever Was": for those jobs that *aren't* about Pokémon

Bay, Apr 2: Like GP, for the most part people with other careers will function the same more or less like the people in our world. Depending on the career/job, Pokemon helping out is an added bonus. Probably will account some extra training when handling...
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Mix-and-match

Bay, Mar 12: It varies from story to story, but several of them tend to have action/adventure, romance, and/or plain old slice of life. Sometimes I add elements of suspense and political drama.
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Poke writers?

SlowBryan, Feb 12: Great tips. I will add that it is essential not to allow writing to become routine. The process should please you, and then problems with motivation will disappear. Good luck. ________________________________________________ I have been a literary...
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any thoughts on my trainer oc, heart

popplio25, Jan 18: anyone want to? :>
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Help Request

Roleplaying newbie help with my main character choosing a type

Anna92, Jan 12: Hello, Pokémon Violet will be the last gen I'm going to play mostly because I have lost interest in videogames, but I want to give my childhood's favorite franchise a finale roleplaying as a gym leader/type specialist character playing every gen. ...
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(Pokemon) Xenoverse: Per Aspera Ad Astra rewrite feedback

Mintaka☆, Jan 9: You're welcome, and thank you for agreeing to share the full doc! I know you have tried to soften some of the references to the manga such as the one about Lt. Surge being in Team Rocket, but there's one more that affects the very premise of the...
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How Much Did You Write This Year?

DavidWr., Mar 21: Well, 2022 was not the best year for me, and I wrote two stories, but I've not published them. I'm not ready to share yet. And now I'm working on a new story, and it's something I'd been having in mind for a long time. I hope I'll be able to finish...
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Help Request

New Pokemon Move for a Future Uxie

WillowHallows666, Dec 28: Honestly what you just said sounds about accurate cause i want a move that has a sort of like MRI scan vibe or something on those lines! I know I want it to be a psychic type move not sure about if it should be a special or like psychical move.
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Discussion

My Fakemon Ideas

MxRyan, Dec 15: Thanks for sharing that with us, that's gonna be crazy man!
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Three Positive, Three Negative

CiCi, Apr 19: Positives: 1) Highly intelligent/resourceful, 2) Empathetic and compassionate, 3) Altruistic Negatives: 1) Headstrong, 2) Easily manipulated through her empathy, 3) Penchant for mischief due to curiosity Credence Painter from my Hogwarts Legacy...
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Might make a Danganronpa x Pokémon Fanfic but with a Original twist.

Bay, Dec 6: Hi, so I went and moved your thread to Writer's Lounge. The main Fanfiction and Writing forum is for prose works while your post here is more of an idea you're brainstorming at the moment and fits more into Writer's Lounge. As for your idea, I'm...
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Practice

gimmepie, Dec 5: What are you doing right now to improve the quality of your writing?
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Feedback on This Fight

Pokeplan08, Dec 5: I am working on a fanfic in which Silver challenges Cynthia to an unofficial battle. First, Silver uses a Magmortar against Cynthias Togekiss. However, Togekiss uses a combo of Serene grace and Air slash to 3 hit ko Magmortar. Silver then sends out...
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Possible ideas for other regional variants for fangame

WillowHallows666, Nov 14: Ok so i spoke in one of my threads about doing some pokemon variants or original designs based on the Goosebumps franchise monsters (like from the books/series/movies/game etc) I was wondering if anyone else has some ideas cause these are the...
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Help Request

Nurse Joy of Kindness - What kind of appearance should she have?

WillowHallows666, Oct 31: For context to this: I’m currently writing up the Virtue Nurse Joy’s descriptions at the moment and want to add like what their appearance would look like as well as how they would behave or interact with the player. Right now, i’m focusing on...
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Struggling on something

WillowHallows666, Oct 23: Ah i see,i’ll consider that!
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Plotter/Plotser/Pantser

HufsaTheGreat96, Apr 18: I am definitely a Plotter, mostly Neutral Good though with some leaning towards the Lawful-side considering the insane amount of notes I tend to write down about the plot and characters before actually writing the first chapter proper. I tend to...
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Worldbuilding

Let's talk about the Champions

Venia Silente, Oct 26: Well, with SWC now over, I can take a further look at this TBH. Unironically suggesting that you look for an abbreviated Let's Play, since the Pokémon games tend to not be plot-heavy anyway, you can breeze through a complete LP without missing...
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Prompts vs Planning

gimmepie, Oct 8: I do best when I plan things out and write an outline. I can do fine with prompt work too and I'm not terrible at improvisation either, but there's a marked difference in quality and the ease of writing.
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Is it time for a rewrite, yet? (aka: giving your old fics a new touch)

Mimicking Mimikyu, Nov 17: I don't ever truly rewrite anything. I might change a few details but I'd rather scrap something I'm unhappy with.
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My Concept of an Expanded Pokemon World

Terrano, Oct 9: I see. So it's not such an interesting idea. 🙁
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Your "average" word count.

Mimicking Mimikyu, Nov 17: Short stories and individual chapters are usually around 3k~5k. I have two ongoing "series" that clock in at 80k and 60k so far with miles to go before I sleep.
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Fanfiction "Pilot Episode"

Venia Silente, Sep 3: (emphasis mine) Yeaaaaah that was a factor I had considered. If this was a plan for a waaay longer story, I feel like the answer of if to start with introducing the setting or the characters with a standalone story or a pilot would be more...
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How have your characters evolved?

dewitlykefire, Nov 14: I'm currently working on over ten characters and they usually start out very basic and simple and over the course of the entire story, I slowly progress them. Character building and world building are equally a part of my mindset, so while new areas...
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A Battle Revolution story?

Venia Silente, Jul 31: It's hard to believe other people remember that Battle Revolution exists, too! Good luck with this idea btw. I don't remember much of BR myself but in very general terms of ideas: Battle Revolution as a setting is prime for a Tournament Arc....
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Where do you write?

AquaMarie271, Mar 30: Glad to see that I'm not the only one using Google Docs to write! I probably shouldn't, but... it's convenient, I guess? My problem is that I also use docs for a lot of other things, so a lot of my projects tend to go unfinished/get lost. Honestly,...
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Most messed up things you've ever written?

Palamon, Apr 25: Hello. I'm back. I've written something that I feel like is one of the most gruesome things I've ever written. Being a horror writer is hell sometimes.
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Writing Prompts

Palamon, Jul 10: I'm better at writing my own things. I've never been good with pre determined prompts. I tried it once with a traitor prompt on Twitter, but it just wasn't on par with stuff I write promptless. But, I might try writing based on a prompt again...
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Worldbuilding

Megan, Jul 8: I like to start big and divide the progression of the world in sorta episodal formats. Those are usually just explained in only few details up to the point when the actually important events happen. I also try to keep things fairly contained within...
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"My Starter is better than yours!" -- Writing rivalry

gimmepie, Jul 16: Deacon is unrivalled. There is no comparison to his good boy energy.
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How many canon characters have you written?

Bay, Jun 28: I've been mainly writing fanfiction, both Pokemon and other fandoms, with mainly canon characters so much I lost count lol. Pokemon my most focused ones have been Grimsley and several characters from the Sun/Moon/Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon games. For Fire...
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"When's the next update"?

starseed galaxy auticorn, Jun 29: Hell if I know. I'm the type that can never finish muk, so I end up not even finishing what I write. ;w; I do usually update quite often though, depending what story I'm working on.
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Writing relationships

gimmepie, Dec 5: I don't write much in the way of romantic relationships, but the answer is much the same for platonic relationships anyway: it depends. Different relationships are built around different things. Mutual caring and trust are usually a part of it, at...
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Zodiac League

ChaoticOtaku183, Jun 14: I can actually just send the Google and you and others can take a look if you want! However, to sum up the members' personalities, they represent the positive and negative aspects of their respective Zodiacs. Like the Bull is headstrong but is hard...
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Worldbuilding

The Chimera Lore Thread

Palamon, Feb 18: It's been awhile, I have a mild entry update to this thread because I have some lore that need s a separate post made for it. And what would that be, you ask, dear reader? Well, that would be... This is all subject to change and important things...
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How many original characters do you have?

Palamon, Jun 10: Oh, no, I'm good, I know what I'm doing with my ocs, but thank you for the offer, though! I'm just too creative for my own good, LOL.
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Tags

gimmepie, Jun 8: I don't really outside of sticking genre tags on my books when they publish. I mostly only do other writing here on PC which doesn't have a tag function like that.
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Type Chart × Alignment Chart: How does typing impact your characters?

Bay, May 30: Like GP I don't write in the Pokemon perspective all too often. Many times though it's usually the trainer that is guiding their Pokemon in dealing with another Pokemon they have a type disadvantage with.
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Things only writers would notice.

gimmepie, May 31: I think you should, as a starting point, really figure out how this entity experiences the world itself because that will dictate much of how it interacts with it.
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How do you view writing?

Venia Silente, May 25: That sounds like a recipe for anxiety tbh. :p Anyway, the way I view it is like watching a movie or telling a book and then trying to tell the story to other people on the subway or at a bus station. I know that people who are there listening...
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How to write a good capture?

gimmepie, May 23: I don't think there really is a right way to write captures. There's just too many different ways to achieve it. So long as there's a reason for your trainer to want to make the capture, it's probably the correct way. In the case of the troublesome...
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"Mary Sues"

HufsaTheGreat96, Apr 20: Sorry in advance for the incoming avalanche of text. As someone who was really in the avoid-Mary-Sue-at-all-costs-camp many years ago and feverishly researched countless hours on sites like Springhole to make sure that my characters wouldn't fall...
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Started by Palamon

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Writing Playlist

starseed galaxy auticorn, Jun 23: I tend to have playlists for a lot of my stories. It varies, depending on the type of story I'm actually writing. I do have a general playlist for songs that inspire me when writing and what not. I use Spotify since I also have premium and such.
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