This thread is simply to post any story ideas you may have and receive feedback on them, or perhaps help provide feedback to other people's ideas.
What a wonderful idea. I support that! And as I see, you explained everything good. Very nice done!
Or maybe you are unsure about how much potential it has or indeed if it'd make for an interesting story?
Regarding that point, I may quote:
LJ-Jornal v_m said:
Watt-Evans' Law:
There is no idea so brilliant that a sufficiently ham-handed writer can't make an unreadable story out of it.
Feist's Corollary to Watt-Evans' Law:
There is no idea so stupid that a sufficiently talented writer can't make a readable story out of it.
Sinphony_#9:
"Now by himself, the plant lizard starts to play with himself."
Why does he do that? Is that regular for him? Is this regular for Pokémon in general? Especially, how much is it too expect to have gay Pokémon? Is it more common in a specific race?
"Their lives have changed for the better or for worse." Good for them, but how will it go on? What will the trainer say, how will they continue to meet up with each other when "imprisoned" into Pokéballs?
"I know it's your typical romance fic, so do you have any suggestions or know someone who can help me flesh out the story? Do you know any published romance short stories I can read to get my creative juices going?"
As for that, why not write a "normal" romance with this theme (these Pokémon and all) as an writing excercise? Can not hurt, as I think.
Kind of a random question..
But do any of you ever try to roleplay with a friend to iron out plot points? I read it somewhere and I thought "Hmm.. I wonder if that's actually helpful.."
I don't know whether to consider it..
Thoughts?
Do that from time to time, even alone. But only to see, if the fight moves are possible and not dumb (like avoiding a sword by falling on your back, like a beetle, and being defenseless against the next move).
swiftgallade46:
"[GoGo Giovanni: Collect the items!]"
I like the idea, but the hole would be, that Mewto wouldn't have something like that, since it is "merely" a clone.
"But of coursr they were killed by mewtwo and the item was lost forever before Giovanni even knew of it's creation."
Let me rephrase that: For the scienists to create such an item, they should know of its (theoretical) existence first. They would have reported it to Giovanni. And the problem with Mewto was in the first place, that they couldn't control it any longer. As far as I know, Pokémon are considered as Legendary Ones, if they are very very few of them (see Lugia), or even only one, and as such, they have their history. This history could be linked to the items. Well, except for Mewto, because it is very young, compared to its companions.
"Looker travels to Unova to enlist the help of Ash"
Ha. Hahahaha! Perfect! Even it may have been obvious, let's just get the kid who already encountered every legendary, maybe they will understand then. Also maybe we can make use of his power of infinite youth!
Really, I like it.
But all in all that is a book, nothing less. I don't know you, but I simply expect it to be too much for you. A trick would be to split it up into OneShots, e.g. the battle for Ho-Oh, the search for Raiku etc. So to say, just the highlights and not the riffraff between. Of which you at least should know what happens, else it won't be better that way.
So, now I'm to tired to read over the other people's plots, because it's late. These days I will take the next look.
EDIT: Oh wow, look! 5 Posts I was too lazy too read that time, but all of them were about one plot! So, my apologies I didn't criticize it last time.
So, psyanic said a lot of things and they are probably true (about this being a common plot; no idea since I don't know the fandom (yet)). But nevertheless I would disagree with his attitude. Remember Watt-Evan's Law: "There is no idea so brilliant that a sufficiently ham-handed writer can't make an unreadable story out of it." That said, your plot is not bad at all, just used. So, ask yourself what you want to write this fic for? If you want to get prayers from all readers, your plot may be a little bit common for that. But if you write it for yourself, the first important thing is to have fun and do not force yourself to anything. And I think, you should try to write this story as an exerise, because as it is with all things, exercise will make you better at it. Seriously, my first written-on-paper story I can remember was half a site and about a girl who got attacked by monsters but then woke up and found out it was all a dream. So original, huh?
On another side, I remember the Anime Lucky Star being without any big plot at all, but nevertheless it was fascinating by the little humor and nonsense and the lovelyness of the characters. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya was hardly with any plot but nevertheless this self-righteous girl Haruhi and the "why am I doing this" boy Kyon were somehow so amazing you just kept watching. (Nevertheless the second Season was filler as… you know.)
To give the bad example (and so the example for the quote), I just finished reading a somehow retarded original story. The plot was not bad, there were magical stones who sealed a democratic evil behind some montains and since now the stones found their way back to the protagonists, it's kinda easy to see the ruler returned. But the writing was sooo bad. Not the grammar or something, but this little stupid details. The protagonists were able to wander a distance in the same time at it would go with horses, they eat breads for lunch (so to say, one for each), one protagonist was flipping out, when another undressed a female one trying to save her from death, like he never had saw the woman body before, the evil ruler tries to hide his return, yet on the other side he destroys cities and so on.
Fazit: You can create a fine story with an average plot, as long you look out for details.
To your original questions: Speaking about details you should be well informed about your characters before starting writing, so when you don't know anything about the fourth child better ignore it completely or thing more about her.
If you should change the point of view within a chapter or not is a kind of rhetoric question, because you are the one who will decide how long a chapter goes. If you were a funny one, you could change the point of view every paragraph and call it a chapter.
But I will try to help with an example. My favourite author's second book has about 70 chapters with about 20 A4pages each. That's a whole lot. And about the first 40 chapters, he gave 2 chapters to the human world, then 2 two the demon world and so on, if I remember correctly. He is awesome, so no one of the readers had a problem with that. In fact, sometimes it was used to build tension. "Wanna know what's going on? Well, wait until two other chapters are done!" Teasing, but fun. But on some point it annoyed me and I was waiting for those story lines to come together.
So, to make a suggestion, you should concentrate one one character a chapter, but there will be no problem if you shortly change the view to another one, be it for a cliffhanger at the end or maybe some evil guy who is plotting plans in the dark. But I would like to see the persons coming together at the end of the story (before league, just because they like travelling together).