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Feign September 15th, 2009 3:08 PM

Yeah it was definitely a school thing... XD Thanks for remembering... I guess. ;)

Though, along that genre, one book I didn't like was The Chrysalids...

Giratina ♀ September 15th, 2009 5:30 PM

Yes, it's because of sixth grade curriculum that I was introduced to it. > .>
But yes, it's worth remembering just to remind you how good your stories are in comparison. At least, that's what I use it for.

txteclipse September 17th, 2009 8:07 AM

What the crap, people? Two days without a lounge post? I'm leaving for college on the 19th, without a computer, so you guys better get as much of me as you can while you can.

Elite Overlord LeSabre™ September 17th, 2009 10:32 AM

Hold on, I'm thinking...

If Pokemon Centers no longer allowed trainers to stay overnight, what would your characters do?
Lisa would do the same thing she always does: Seek out the nearest Quality, Comfort, or Sleep Inn, shell out the $75 or $80, and stay in relative comfort and luxury.


And BTW, I hated most everything I had to read for English classes.

txteclipse September 17th, 2009 10:52 AM

If Pokemon Centers no longer allowed trainers to stay overnight, what would your characters do?

They would continue doing what they always do, namely sleeping outside. There be no pokécenters in medieval pokemonland.

Grexx September 17th, 2009 10:52 AM

Hello everybody! I'm a writer myself, and I saw this lounge sooo....

If Pokemon Centers no longer allowed trainers to stay overnight, what would your characters do?

It depends on what I'm writing. Probably a hotel or something if they are in a town/city. If they are traveling, then they would just have to sleep on the ground. Lawl.

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And BTW, I hated most everything I had to read for English classes.
I can relate. I even had to read Twilight for this one class because a lot of my peers (mostly girls) was practically begging to have it as an assignment. I still haven't finished it to this day. I liked The Catcher in the Rye though.

Citrinin September 17th, 2009 10:56 AM

In a seismic shift of character, I'm on here at 10 to 7AM in the morning. :P

If Pokemon Centers no longer allowed trainers to stay overnight, what would your characters do?
Continue to sleep elsewhere. There are no PokéCentres in a world where training Pokémon is illegal. XP

Sgt Shock September 17th, 2009 11:01 AM

If Pokemon Centers no longer allowed trainers to stay overnight, what would your characters do?

Currently, I'm more than sure that my characters would sleep on the ground if the Pokemon Center decided to be complete jerks. (darn you Nurse Joy) Anyway, I think that is the most plausible option since you will have pokemon to protect you. Or maybe it might be someone in the town nice enough to let you stay over.

An-chan September 17th, 2009 11:59 AM

If Pokemon Centers no longer allowed trainers to stay overnight, what would your characters do?

They all mostly camp out anyway, so I figure that's what they'd do. Well, of course, in Secret People they'd find someone to stay with or go to an inn, seeing as how Cimi's not doing so well at the moment. We'll see when that one progresses a bit.

That aside, I've also hated most of the books I've had to read for my Finnish classes. They're mostly pessimistic, "artistic" and circle around sex and love and violence (mental or physical), and, frankly, I'm not really into those kinds of books. One of the books was good, but it wasn't originally Finnish. Moreover, I suggested it, so maybe you can't really count that one in... I just really don't understand why we have to read the same kind of books over and over again :/

Bay September 17th, 2009 12:02 PM

If Pokemon Centers no longer allowed trainers to stay overnight, what would your characters do?
In NE, the characters did a little of everything. XD; Bunny stayed at a hotel while visiting Jubilife City, but then she gets wanted. After Jenny saves her, the two stayed at the Pokemon Center, but then Nurse Joy caught them red handed. :x Jacob then saves them and the three were staying at his place for a bit. Later the two traveled and they stayed at a hotel when they made it to Solaceon Town and camped out for the night while they were heading for Celestic Town. So yeah, depends on the situation. XD

As for me, I too don't like the books I have to read in high school for my English classes. They're all pretty much angst and too heavy on purple prose. :P However, in college, I actually like the books my English professors assigned us. One of them assigned The Things They Carried and that's my all time favorite book ever. XD

Oh, and hello timoteyo7! Have fun here! :D

Giratina ♀ September 17th, 2009 12:21 PM

If Pokemon Centers no longer allowed trainers to stay overnight, what would your characters do?

Since Pokémon Centers weren't exactly the most... convenient... option for the nominees for the Strangest Traveling Group of All Time (courtesy of Metal Coat), they mostly slept outside or... I didn't mention the difference between night and day at all. Debut fics always get us on that sort of thing. xD But no, they never actually slept in a Pokémon Center. In a different Trainer story (yet to be posted, after about six months of planning and probably more), where the groupies were a bit more acceptable for chilling in the PokéCenters, they would probably go to a hotel (though this wouldn't happen very much, considering housing and paying for five people is a very expensive endeavor) or follow the lead of the Good Old Days and make do with what they can in the safest possible location.

Which may end up being sleeping in the Pokémon Center's lobby, but...

Astinus September 17th, 2009 1:07 PM

If Pokemon Centers no longer allowed trainers to stay overnight, what would your characters do?
When traveling by herself, my character would be all right with that change, and just continue sleeping outside. When traveling with her partner, the two would get in some huge argument about whether it was safer to sleep indoors or outdoors, whether it was worth it to spend that money to sleep indoors, and where to sleep if they decided to sleep outside.

I really can't complain about the books I read in high school English class. Four years in advanced placement English, and the only book the class finished was Of Mice and Men, and that was because the teacher read it out loud to the class.

Feign September 17th, 2009 1:08 PM

If Pokemon Centres no longer allowed trainers to stay overnight, what would your characters do?

Hotels, camping etc. Depending on the situation, there could be plenty of opportunities. Though I think that sometimes, while cliched, camping presents for the best bonding moments.

I never really like the books we had to read in elementary, though I did start improving in junior high, and then just averaging in high school... It would seem akin to Murphy's law wherein, the short pieces you'd have to read for exams were the most boring pointless things ever... And what sucked was that a lot of times they were Canadian authors... Not to mention that I find English tests to be subjective... That's why I like essays better.

Lana. September 17th, 2009 5:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Feign (Post 5126717)
If Pokemon Centres no longer allowed trainers to stay overnight, what would your characters do?

Hotels, camping etc. Depending on the situation, there could be plenty of opportunities. Though I think that sometimes, while cliched, camping presents for the best bonding moments.

Pretty much this. I'm thinking of one character that would refuse to pay for hotels and camp, while another character would just shake his head and go ahead with the hotels just for a bed. xD

Citrinin September 17th, 2009 8:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Feign
That's why I like essays better

Essays are still quite subjective. The main reason I do so well in English was because I flat out asked my teacher at the beginning of the year, "What do you like to see in an essay?" It's all about what the marker likes emphasised. ;o

Feign September 17th, 2009 8:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Citrinin (Post 5127856)
Essays are still quite subjective. The main reason I do so well in English was because I flat out asked my teacher at the beginning of the year, "What do you like to see in an essay?" It's all about what the marker likes emphasized. ;o

Less subjective than multiple choice test mind you :P

I think teacher biases are more prevalent in grade school unfortunately... Whereas in post-secondary, profs a lot of the time, take the time to read your paper, and look at it in an objective manner. Both my history and english teacher were like that. :)

Citrinin September 17th, 2009 8:27 PM

Really? I've heard from people I've spoken to taking/having done university that it's far more subjective, because the professors are opinionated, and they expect their students to have the same view. Maybe it's just NZ universities. XD;

To keep it on topic,

If your fic is focused in an original setting, how intensively do you develop the setting of your fic? If it is focused in a canon setting, do you tend to change much of it?

Bay September 17th, 2009 8:43 PM

On the essays part, yeah in my university (American, ya) the professors and teacher assistants are very opinionated. Sometimes I would have them look over my essays and they would say your argument would be better this way. :P

If your fic is focused in an original setting, how intensively do you develop the setting of your fic? If it is focused in a canon setting, do you tend to change much of it?
I mention already for the original version of NE I have the places based upon real life ones (BIG BEAR! XD), so I developed them quite a bit. For the new version of NE, it's set in Sinnoh so I mostly kept it the same, at least for the anime version. However, I do add some buildings as I think it's reasonable the buildings I had put could be ones in the anime, considering some of the cities in the anime are huge. @[email protected]

Feign September 17th, 2009 8:51 PM

If your fic is focused in an original setting, how intensively do you develop the setting of your fic? If it is focused in a canon setting, do you tend to change much of it?

I tend not to focus on the setting unless if a great deal of time is spent there, or if the plot is important.

You'd have to set up a good argument. If anyone has read Life of Pi, the story can be taken a few ways. Like that the story with the Tiger is actually true, or that the more sickly way (forget its summary atm) was actually true, when recounting it to the Japanese investigators. While this wasn't the question in the essay, I adhered to the belief that the tiger portion of the story was correct, and indirectly backed it up with evidences pertaining to the original question.

Elite Overlord LeSabre™ September 18th, 2009 7:42 AM

If your fic is focused in an original setting, how intensively do you develop the setting of your fic? If it is focused in a canon setting, do you tend to change much of it?

Probably not as much as I should have, lol. Interestingly, I found it easier to develop the setting of the cities rather than the routes and natural features of my region. One city's set up as an island with Southern-style antebellum homes, another island town features lavish estates of the rich and famous. I have a beachfront resort city modeled after Virginia Beach and Myrtle Beach, as well as two college towns. One of those said college towns has a town-wide obsession with the Buick LeSabre's rival, the Mercury Grand Marquis. Each city's businesses and lodging/shopping/dining options are also carefully planned out.

But the routes in between towns? Mostly generic grass routes, with the occasional mountain cave or volcano to break the monotony. Yeah, I'm not so good with the natural settings XD

Giratina ♀ September 18th, 2009 10:54 AM

If your fic is focused in an original setting, how intensively do you develop the setting of your fic? If it is focused in a canon setting, do you tend to change much of it?

Metal Coat took place in future!Sinnoh. Except for a few age increases (and replacements) of some canon characters to fit the timeline in comparison to DP's whirlwind tour of the region, not much had changed.

D. Lawride September 18th, 2009 11:15 AM

If your fic is focused in an original setting, how intensively do you develop the setting of your fic? If it is focused in a canon setting, do you tend to change much of it?

I've got the awfl habit to extend descriptions, and since my fic's set in a new region, I could say that so far, its largely developed. There are short parts set in canon settings, but I don't really change it, or even make much of a big description (e.g. Sunyshore in the fic was just like how its been seen, at least in the games).

txteclipse September 18th, 2009 12:06 PM

If your fic is focused in an original setting, how intensively do you develop the setting of your fic? If it is focused in a canon setting, do you tend to change much of it?

About 95% of the Chronicles takes place in original settings, so I do take the time to describe them. I mean, it is a fantasy novel. The settings have a tendency to be a bit over-the-top.

Mastermind, on the other hand...I'm not sure yet. Right now Mewtwo's in an institute, which I describe a fair amount, but I haven't decided whether the story takes place on Earth or in pokemonland.

Citrinin September 18th, 2009 3:37 PM

Y'argh, it be my time t' answer me own askin'.

If your fic is focused in an original setting, how intensively do you develop the setting of your fic? If it is focused in a canon setting, do you tend to change much of it?
I developed me own settin' by me lonesome, with all the care of findin' swag. It's like a big chest of booty t' me tale - losin' it would mean it'd be like a marooned pirate with no rum. So it was me duty as a pirate to build up me settin' even beyond the bounds of me story, 'nd I'd pull parts in when I needed 'em.

(Er, translation: I developed a non-canon setting quite meticulously. It's a central part to my story; without it, the fic would be incredibly different. I've actually developed the setting beyond the bounds of what is written, so that I can incorporate extra tidbits, like the history or geography of Torcra, when I need to.)

Elite Overlord LeSabre™ September 18th, 2009 9:37 PM

Despite what the anime has shown us, not everyone thinks about Pokemon 24/7. What are some of your character's side interests and/or hobbies?

I'll answer this when I'm not dead tired, lol.


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