Fanfiction Lounge

Yay! Long time no post, I think I somehow forgot about this place.

AH-HA! Has anyone ever put a Wobuffet in their stories before?
No...

Have any of you put a Sentret in any of your fics?
I'm writing one now, where one of the main characters fails twice to catch Sentret. The third time she succeeds, through. Oh and there will be no flamethrowers. I hope...

Have you ever set a fanfic in the past or future? If so, how many years in either direction was it set?
Well... not exactly. You see, I'm a big fan of that TV invention called "Floating Now" (or "Perpetual Present"). Where events happen concurrent to... well... "current events", but without a direct linking in causes and/or consequences that sets up a specific date, or even a timeframe. Like, for example, "Third Watch", "24", and to a lesser exent comedic series such as "Boston Legal".

I don't know if they have things like that in Anime. I would expect to see things like that in Sentai series, maybe.

Anyways... the stories I'm writing take place in a floating timeline with respect to the beginning of the anime. It may be anywhere from ten years earlier to actually "now", but it's left open enough that it doesn't matter. That may change in the future, however.

As for other stories I write, such as the ones in my FF.net page, which are based off Final Fantasy games, all of them take place in a fuzzy timeframe in between the events in the game. I enjoy inbetweening plots more than the kinda "everyone lived happily thereafter... until" ones.


Ah... um... hold on, I have to think of a question. (from DG)
Well, I should do that, too... :rambo: --- I'll think of something.

Ninja Caterpie said:

You see, that happens around this place. People tend to go mad. Must be the porn and the smell of crack. Or maybe it's just the clean, solitary, white feeling we have here.

Anyway, do you guys mind if I make the FFL a -harmless- building in my ROM Hack? I needn't include you people, but the clean, solitary, white feeling must be!

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A FFL room in a Pokémon hack??? That would be a way to break the fourth wall and anything beyond! If you include us, or at least the craziest of us, that will be epic.

Oh and why, why why why (Mr. Anderson), why has it to be harmless? I mean, a flamethrower-wielding Sentret sprite and a à‑la‑"Prince of Persia" death script can not be tht boringfficult to do! :D

Wait! Stupid idea by me! Once the player enters the room they get as a gift a LV20 Sentret with Keen Eye as ability and knowing Flamethrower! Bulbapedia says they can! :D

Post Office Buddy said:

If you're characters were a race in the World of Warcraft, which might they be? You can even speculate which professions they would seek mastery of if you wish to go that far.

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Alas, I have not played WoW extensively. (Pay to get the disc and then pay more to play for a couple of months? Yeah, uh, I think I'll stick with Maple Story, kthnx.) Still, I can imagine the following based on the brief times I have played:

Viola would probably be a human rogue. With no idea about how to actually play the game, she'd be attracted to a bland (but balanced) race on top of the ability to go stealth and run away like crazy. Sort of like, "Oh crap. There's a player here I don't like. STEALTH AND RUN!" (She wouldn't, of course, completely understand the rules of stealthing anyway.)

Sebastian would probably be a paladin of some sort -- either human or draenei. Either way, he'd definitely be Alliance because Viola would want to play Alliance (given that they'd probably look like the good guys). Imogen would follow them around as the token priest -- most likely a night elf.

And then you've got the rest of the crew, most of whom would either be rogues or warriors... all most likely Horde races.

With regards to AEM, I don't think a single one of them would actually play WoW except Bill because he's like that. In which case, tauren druid. Because, honestly? "Hi! I'm a tree! ...No, I'm not!"

Kev XY said:

Have you ever set a fanfic in the past or future? If so, how many years in either direction was it set?

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A Midsummer Knight's Dream takes place an undefined number of years in the future. (I've never actually thought about how far I wanted to go. It's a little like present-day, but it's definitely supposed to be in the future.)

Likewise, one of my shorts, So the World Turned to Ash, takes place ten years from present day in the anime. Other shorts (including Bloom and a few smut fics I can't mention) take place roughly five to ten years in the past.

A FFL room in a Pokémon hack??? That would be a way to break the fourth wall and anything beyond! If you include us, or at least the craziest of us, that will be epic.

Oh and why, why why why (Mr. Anderson), why has it to be harmless? I mean, a flamethrower-wielding Sentret sprite and a à‑la‑"Prince of Persia" death script can not be tht boringfficult to do! :D

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1. Flamethrower-wielding Sentret is not something I'm gonna go sprite. 8D I can't sprite.
2. What's that Prince of Persia death script?

Wait! Stupid idea by me! Once the player enters the room they get as a gift a LV20 Sentret with Keen Eye as ability and knowing Flamethrower!

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Great. I'll give them a Sentret inside. :D But it can't have Flamethrower. :( Unless...I make Sentret learn Flamethrower at some level....Or create a new, stronger Sentret which does learn Flamethrower! GENIUS!

(Pay to get the disc and then pay more to play for a couple of months? Yeah, uh, I think I'll stick with Maple Story, kthnx.)

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Maple? Genius! 8D

Have you ever set a fanfic in the past or future? If so, how many years in either direction was it set?
Not yet, as my current fanfiction is in the gameverse and runs parallel in time to the FR/LG/R/S/E arc of time. But...the alternate ending/sequel to that may be a couple of years ahead...

Ninja Caterpie said:

Maple? Genius! 8D

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Maple's really the only MMORPG I'm into at the moment. Yeah, I know its reputation, but still.

Xanthine said:

Maple's really the only MMORPG I'm into at the moment. Yeah, I know its reputation, but still.

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It's the only one I'm into as well. Although I can't really say "into" as I haven't played it for ages. But it's the only one I've played since...Runescape. 8D

Have you ever set a fanfic in the past or future? If so, how many years in either direction was it set?
"Nothing, Everything" is set a few years after the events of the anime, since I'm actually going to put a couple anime references in it (I blame one of my friends XD).

Have you ever set a fanfic in the past or future? If so, how many years in either direction was it set?

To be honest, I've never even thought about how far in the future my fic's supposed to be. It kind of follows the "twenty minutes into the future" trope, where it's clearly set in the future, but only so far that nothing really changes except political circumstances, so you don't have to worry as much about accuracy in that regard.

It sounds kind of cheap when I put it that way...

Ninja Caterpie said:

It's the only one I'm into as well. Although I can't really say "into" as I haven't played it for ages.

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Yeah, I'm just getting back into it as well, as I've said. I went on a several month hiatus because I wanted to focus on my studies, but when I mentioned the game to my friends, they all jumped at the chance to play it. So, I figured what the hey and redownloaded it.

I was tempted to create a new pirate character (because the class looks like a cross between the thief class and the archer class -- both of which are really cool), but my friends sounded like they needed a healer. Hence, working on a cleric. Slowly but surely.

But it's the only one I've played since...Runescape. 8D

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Personally, I never really liked Runescape all that much. Probably because I was on a free server, where the quests are, frankly, not that interesting. And I didn't think much about the erratic classes. (As in, if you feel like going from a primarily physical warrior to a magician, you can switch with absolutely no penalties.)

But as for memberships, people can tell me the game's a lot better if you pay for it, but my philosophy with online games is that you're either a pay-to-play or not. With free games, it's really only fair to pay for the game as a form of donation, and in return, you might get things that don't really affect the game experience. That's one of the reasons why I like Maple Story -- because although it has a Cash Shop, the things you get from there don't really prevent you from experiencing the complete game. They're nice, but they're mostly superficial. Hence, you get the whole game for free, which means anyone can sign up and play if they want. WoW is a completely pay-to-play, but that just weeds out the hardcore gamers from the everyday n00b for the most part, which is okay in my book as well.

Runescape, however, tries to be both at once, which means if you don't have the money to pay for a membership, you're pretty much screwed over because Runescape denies the free player a lot of the "cool" things it offers the paying players. Half the map is literally not available to the free players, as are half the skills and most of the quests.

And that's not even mentioning all the other things I've never really liked about the game, including graphics and spaztastic cameras. The only thing I think I do like is the ability to PvP, which I kinda want more free games to do (because it's hilarious to snipe n00bs).

...Okay, yeah, now that I'm done derailing the topic with my rants, have another question. I know it might've been asked long, long ago, but I figure, there's a completely different crowd now.

Which literary technique do you like to add to your stories? How about read in other people's work?

Myself, I'm a Chekhov's gun and foreshadowing sort of girl. Plot twists too. Both make me go back into the story and really look at what's going on to see how events or objects that seemed random eventually led up to the ending. In terms of writing, it's always fun to throw the reader a curveball when I throw in something that essentially says, "Ha. Remember that thing you thought was completely insignificant in chapter two? Yeah, not so much now, is it?"

I'm also fond of writing subtle lampshade hanging (as in, characters making subtle comments that actually make it clear that they know what kind of story they're in), not so much to see who gets it but more because it's like an inside joke between myself and whoever can see it. Naturally, it's probably never a good idea to intentionally do this and rather to rewrite a scene to make it decent, but when it happens, I'm amused. Hence, the point, right?

Which literary technique do you like to add to your stories? How about read in other people's work?

I'm big on the plot twists; when I was younger, one of my favorite authors was (still is, I guess) Dianna Wynne Jones. Typically, her stories would set up until about halfway through the book, at which point there would be some massive twist that would cause everything to change. I really loved the sort of "wtfbbq" that this would result in, as well as trying to figure out what the twist would be beforehand, and I think that my writing tends to show similar elements as a result. Also Chekhov's gun, as this is generally a very useful technique in setting up plot twists.

Also, love the new addition to the reviewing guide, Xanthine.

Which literary technique do you like to add to your stories? How about read in other people's work?

Big deep characters. Even if it means developing an involved backstory for a character who was never really meant to do much. Of course, this spawns complexity, to the point where I rewrite a fic because one character's backstory got out of hand and became a plot unto itself that I wanted to run parallel with the "main" story...

...I'm guilty of this at least five times in the same story.

THAT'S RIGHT, T6W. I'M LOOKIN' RIGHT AT YA. D8

Negrek said:

I'm big on the plot twists; when I was younger, one of my favorite authors was (still is, I guess) Dianna Wynne Jones. Typically, her stories would set up until about halfway through the book, at which point there would be some massive twist that would cause everything to change. I really loved the sort of "wtfbbq" that this would result in, as well as trying to figure out what the twist would be beforehand, and I think that my writing tends to show similar elements as a result. Also Chekhov's gun, as this is generally a very useful technique in setting up plot twists.

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Heh, I like her works too. The plot twists got rather epic at times.

Literary techniques... well, for my main fic I suppose it'd be parody... (could one say turning a darkish game into a comedy be a form of defamilarisation?)

I've used a touch of foreshadowing, and do like plot twists (although I haven't used them in released works :/). A idea I've had for a fic may have a fair bit to do with Chekhov's gun, and one of my one-shots has a bit of that too.

As for the question about whether I've set my fic in the past/future... well, my main fic isn't (based on the events of Colosseum), but a one-shot of mine in my mind is set a bit in the past, although that doesn't really have much bearing on the fic itself.

Xanthine said:

Which literary technique do you like to add to your stories? How about read in other people's work?

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Wow... an interesting question. Food for the brain... which is why I'm taking half an hour to post this reply. I bet I'm going to be ninja'ed...

I had never actually thought about what devices was I using in my writing: I know I am fond of flashforwards, "Government Warehouses" and some forms of McGuffins because I learnt about them from reading sci-fi tales as a kid. Well... to the point. "Elusive Goals" is narrated in media res and uses mostly incluing to explain its version of Team Rocket. I'm deliberately trying to supress foreshadowing to prevent the clamping of the floating timeline I talked about earlier. At the risk of spoiling it, I will also say that...


I'm writing an upcoming fic that will combine Unreliable Narrator(s), a framing device, and fictional false documents to create a "And So It was Told" kind of narrative.

As a relatively novice writer, I like to write unreliable narrators, or otherwise seemingly impaired POVs, because I feel it allows me to better expand the plot without actualy making use of its complete structure, leaving ample and well marked room for combined plot and character development, kinda, so I don't "forget to do something" with my writing. Also, I like to do different kinds of McGuffins, but try not to make them Plot Coupons. In one of my stories in the works, actually, there is a literal McGuffin Company. Thanks to "24", ticking clocks and boxes with never disclosed contents are also of my liking, but I have yet to learn how to write them.

That would be me... wouldn't I?

Ninja Caterpie said:

1. Flamethrower-wielding Sentret is not something I'm gonna go sprite. 8D I can't sprite.
2. What's that Prince of Persia death script?

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Sorry, my fault. I feel like sharing some geek-freak knowledge. When I was freshman and entered the CS courses, there was a term of sorts for those pesky bugs in videogames or programs that are so blatantly obvious and lethal, that one would just feel like trying them. The kind of "if deathtrap, then boldy walk into it and die" code. Hence, "Prince of Persia" death. You know, in the original game if one died was because either one walked right into an obvious deathtrap, or because the player was difficult enough to maneuver that one couldn't avoid repeatedly walking into such a deathtrap.

Here, everyone, have a video of the most blatantly and literal one I found, which shows how the player can die at the very first screen of the adventure, a feat not many platformers have equated to date.

Which literary technique do you like to add to your stories? How about read in other people's work?

Wow...umm...the list is long. I like using most of the ones on the page you linked to. I guess my major ones are foreshadowing, backstory, irony, false documents, defamiliarization, and plot twists, which I call plot wrenches.

Negrek said:

I'm big on the plot twists; when I was younger, one of my favorite authors was (still is, I guess) Dianna Wynne Jones.

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What a coincidence...I'm reading a book by her right now. Well, not right now, but I'm reading it. Er...

solovino said:

Here, everyone, have a video of the most blatantly and literal one I found, which shows how the player can die at the very first screen of the adventure, a feat not many platformers have equated to date.

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That I would do...how exactly? VM/PM me how you'd like it to go? :\

Which literary technique do you like to add to your stories? How about read in other people's work?
>.> I hate not having WYSIWYG on Google Chrome. >.<

Anyway, I like parodies. That said, I don't use any of them dramatically in my works.

Which literary technique do you like to add to your stories? How about read in other people's work?
I'm not always great at it, but I seem to use foreshadowing a lot. Ticking clock appearse often too, it seems...

In roleplays, on the other hand (when the other players don't mind), I break the fourth wall...

A lot. Usually it's in hurmorous ways of character to player interaction, as if they're conversing amongst themselves telepathicly. I've never tried it in an actual story yet, because it doesn't quite fit so well (yet) in most of what I write.

Have you ever set a fanfic in the past or future? If so, how many years in either direction was it set?
Yes, I'm answering my own question. You got a problem with that?

AJYWSF isn't set at a given time, so I guess that doesn't count... but, WTSHNN (Where The Streets Have No Name) is set about 15 years in the future while another fic that I'm writing is set maybe 10-20 (possibly more) years in the future.

Which literary technique do you like to add to your stories? How about read in other people's work?
I use a lot, and I mean a lot, of detail in my fics... usually explaining tiny little things that have no meaning what-so-ever. In other stories, I like a lot of detail, description and character development.

My answer may have nothing to do with "literary techinique", seeing as I didn't bother reading the Wiki page and I have no previous knowledge on the subject.

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Here's another question from me, which I don't think many people have thought about before...

Have you ever given a character in one of your fanfic's a handicap or put them in a special situation that was very difficult for you to write about?
One again I will answer my own question...

In the untitled fanfic I am writing, I have chosen to make one of the main characters a mute and therefore he communicates by writing out words... which is very difficult for him seeing as he has not been taught how to write by other humans.

I LOVE YOU GUYS!

Seriously, up until now, I've never ever met a person who even knew who the heck is Diana Wynne Jones. She's one of my favourite authors and I really look up to her. Somehow, her style is something I can't help but to love. Sadly, no-one else here seems to have heard anything about her... Her books are also the ones that got me into reading English literature.

Which literary technique do you like to add to your stories? How about read in other people's work?

Yup, I really like the way Diana Wynne Jones does her stories. All sorts of things happen, some of them seemingly unimportant or small, but then you start realizing these aren't all just coincidences. Finally, at the very end, you understand the whole thing and it all makes sense... When some books begin as a neat braid and then split into a mess of single threads, one of which is the right one, she does it completely the other way round. Her books begin as a total mess and end up as braids.

Another person whose books I like very much is Eoin Colfer. Although he does his book in the said "braid -> mess" style, I really like it how things resolve in his books. One person has a plan, but the plan goes wrong because they were tricked, but then we find out that one person already knew he was going to be tricked, and... All in all, it ends up being very complicated but also very interesting. Although, sometimes I get annoyed when there's simply too much tricking going on everywhere. Also, I love the way Eoin Colfer tells the same events twice or even three times, but from the viewpoints of different people.

I also like flashbacks. I don't know why. I feel that they bring a lot more content to the characters, in a way. In Mama's Boy, I use so much flashbacks that Raymond is almost a real character in the story, even though he's been dead for over seven years. I also like it when flashbacks seem to interact with the story. You know, when it seems that the things that happened in the flashback affect the things that happen in the actual story and vice versa.

Oh, and irony just sweeps me away.

Have you ever given a character in one of your fanfic's a handicap or put them in a special situation that was very difficult for you to write about?

In the final chapters of Journey to Isle of Jade, I gave my dear little Cimi a special gift.

I got her shot! By a weapon she hadn't seen before! Moreover, she was shot twice! Once in her arm and once in her chest. Thus, in the following chapters and Secret People, she's pretty much a handicapped person because she can't do anything too physical with her operated, injured, inferior lung (the other one's still perfectly fine). A wonderful gift, eh?

Also, Susanne has gotten herself into a situation so tough that I don't know if she's going to make it through! She has to, though, because my plot will be ruined if she kills herself. She can do it after the story, dangit.

Since no-one else seems to be saying anything, I'm going to answer you. *bows* I'm sorry if I may sound somewhat mean at times. I'm not trying to be mean here, I just want to make you think this stuff trough. My boyfriend does that for me and it really helps a lot when planning a story. So, I apologise in advance if something I say makes you feel hurt.

The World:
Within this book is a world not unlike our own, yet there is one simple difference: it is a world of Faeries. A world in which there is great wonder and Power and the gaining of wings marks the coming of age of a young adult. Ruling over this land is the Light Faerie; a Faerie who is appointed to be king by the Power and granted every Type in order to protect him or herself from any opposing threat.
But one man grew jealous of the Light Faerie's Power and set out to make a perversion of it for himself. He captured and killed each Type of elemental Faerie and cut open his own Power Mark, sacrificing the Power he had been given in order to gain a dark strength second only to that of the Light Faerie. The first Dark Faerie had been created. He set out to infiltrate the castle and killed the Light Faerie.
Immediately after, something happened to the Power. It seemed to grow weaker and did not emerge in every human. Those that did not have Power or wings were called Thin Bloods. They were hated by the Faeries and were forced to work in factories and live in Thin Blood complexes. It is unknown whether it was the death of the Light Faerie or the creating of the Dark Faerie that caused the Time of the Thinning, but the Thin Bloods were pushed aside as a horrible reminder of the Power's corruption.
But then emerged a new Faerie of unknown Power. It was labeled as a sort of defense mechanism for the Power, protecting the Light Faerie at all costs from the rising Dark Faeries.
The Mind Faerie.

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This isn't a bad concept, but there's one thing I dislike. It's not the faeries; I think adding wings to your protagonist might give some great opportunities, just as long as you don't forget she has them and never use them in anything. It's not the Power, either; although I think you should define it somehow, I also think this Power-thingy can be a great thing, also. You know, at some points there, I thought Power is much like the Force in Star Wars, and at other times it sounded more like the Power is the government of their kingdom, telling what happens and who's the king and so on. You should tell more about it. What is it, anyway? I, for one, really want to know.

The thing that bothers me is that your bad guy seems to be the bad guy for the sole reason of being bad. Sure, he's envious, who wouldn't be at least a bit? I know you might have this all thought trough, but by that explanation, it doesn't seem like he has an adequate motive to start slaughtering people and becoming a dark power of some sort. If he really doesn't have one, you should think it trough one more time. If he does, I'd very much like to hear about your brainwork. I just dislike it a lot when bad guys are bad just because, well, they are. For example, Cob from The Tales of Earthsea becomes a bad guy because he's seriously afraid of dying.

Also, why are Thin Bloods sent to work in factories? Isn't that a bit straightforward? Well, maybe your arguments for it are good enough, but if you happen to write this some day, remember to be as credible as possible. It's not very credible if families suddently start sending away their kids because they don't have the Power for some reason. You have to really estabilish why they do what they do. For example, maybe non-faerie faeries did something scary and awful before and that's why people are so afraid?

The Mind:
As soon as Sylvia is proven to be a Fairy, she is sent off to F.W.A. to be schooled for what Type of Power she has, as is the custom for every 15-year-old in their world. But as soon as she is tested, Sylvia finds herself thrown into a hidden struggle between the corruption of the Power and those who were born to protect it, her Power being the one thing that could gain victory on either side once and for all. The Dark secrets of the true Thinning are revealed to her, secrets that call for her to protect her cousin, Conner, from the Faeries that want him dead at all costs. Secrets that give her two choices: protect the Power, or die trying.

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How come she finds out about all that stuff? After all, she's fifteen and only recently got her wings, too. Have you concidered making her a tad older, perhaps? Or could she be from an important family? I don't think dark secrets are often told in places that are easy to evesdrop or anything. Other than that, this sounds pretty credible and good, depending on how you write it. If you do it well, it should be great. If you don't well, then, it's not going to be good. I have no reason to believe you'd fail!

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Sylvia is now 17, nearing the end of her formal F.W.A. education to be trained full time by her mentor, Fay Zoller. But among the Dark there is a plan. A plan to eliminate the problem of Thin Blood once and for all, but the plan involves an evil process written down by the first Dark Faerie hundreds of years ago when its mistake was made clear. Now Sylvia has to stop their plan, and one mistake turns the tables on her, trapping her and making her a part of it. Is she willing to work with them in order to end the Thinning, or allow many to die in vain?

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This one sounds a lot more interesting than the last one. The first book seemed to be a pretty conventional fantasy story, but this one is a lot more original. You just have to think it trough carefully and concentrate on making it all credible. Other than that, I don't really have anything to say. This really sounds interesting.

The Power:
A new Mind Fairy has been discovered named Natasha, which spells trouble for Sylvia, who has long since "retired," and the Power. Natasha goes off on a mission of her own while Sylvia ventures to Sean's property, looking for his remaining possessions, but she finds a whole lot more than she could have ever feared in her worse nightmare. Now Sylvia has to go on a mission of her own to halt the Dark Faeries' mad attempt for revenge, which has consequences much steeper than anyone could have ever imagined.

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This sounds rather interesting, too. I suggest you think this through, like everything else. I can't come up with any points to say :laugh: Sorry, I'm not much help after all... I just have to say that I think you should make up more interesting names for the books. I'm sorry, but if it was me, I wouldn't buy any of those books if I had to decide on the name only. Well, maybe the first one, but the latter two would be left in the book store (I also don't like the Finnish names for Twilight books). It might be just because I'm weird, so you should ask someone else for an opinion. You can vote me out on this :laugh:

Anyway, it seems pretty good to me, just as long as you remember to always think everything trough at least five times before you write it down ^-^ Oh, and I wish you good luck with writing this. My own trilogy isn't progressing very well...

Negrek said:

Also, love the new addition to the reviewing guide, Xanthine.

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Thanks kindly. =D (As a note to no one in particular, yes, that thread is open to discussion if anyone wants to drop notes there or ask about different points I may or may not have included.)

I'm thinking about writing a special mini-guide to why flaming is a bad idea (because there's apparently an inordinate number of lovely people in this fandom who either do it because they think it's a good idea or think their reviewers are doing it because they're trying to churn groupies out of sympathy). You might see it later on this year, depending on how frequently I see it happen.

Kev XY said:

Have you ever given a character in one of your fanfic's a handicap or put them in a special situation that was very difficult for you to write about?

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AEM's full of it. (Haha.) For example, let's put aside the fact that the main character is an alien who may or may not have a split personality that constantly traumatizes and torments him, possibly to the point of insanity (depending on whether or not I want to go with that route). What you have left is an extremely traumatized young girl who clings to every human authority figure she can find and doesn't say a word until I don't know what chapter (because I've yet to figure out when it happens) because she's that emotionally abused. Then, another character who starts out with two perfectly healthy legs gets one sliced off and ends up wheelchair bound. (That's in the chapter I'm currently writing.)

I think out of all three, the hardest to write would have to have been the little girl because I keep forgetting she's there. >_>

MKD, surprisingly, has fewer instances of this aside from Olivia's sociopathic personality and Viola's constant emotional trauma.

Have you ever given a character in one of your fanfic's a handicap or put them in a special situation that was very difficult for you to write about?

There's only a few words for describing two beings conversing through telepathy, and at least half of the dialogue in the Chronicles is telepathic, so it's hard to not recycle the same describing words over and over. That takes a fair amount of thinking and time, I suppose.

Otherwise, I'm a big fan of body language. The pokemon in my stories that can't communicate through speech or telepathy usually do so through body language, and are otherwise more prone to doing so anyways since it's natural for them. I also have a Houndoom mentally linked to a human that uses scent to portray his thoughts rather than images or words. So that's kind of interesting, although it's difficult to write.