Well, if what she's seen and what's present are one in the same, then what? She shouldn't say anything because it might offend people who worry they're guilty of the same thing?
Not to beat a dead horse (although I do love doing that), I don't really think what Jax said was that far off. SPPf has a few good fics, and very much copycat-ing... which is good for me, because at this point I can pretty much copy-and-paste huge chunks of concrit, but I digress.
Speaking of poking dead horses... ^.^;;; Nah, just wanna address this, then I shall leave you to your... uh, discussion. :P
I hope you realize I was agreeing with her at that point? Maybe I just didn't state myself clearly enough. Quite honestly I don't read enough stuff on SPPf to be able to say for myself whether or not she's right--for all I know, most stories there could be the same. I was just pointing out that the fact that she'd 'heard' it and was judging it based on that--or so her statement implied--seemed remarkably similar to what she was saying Orange_Flaaffy was doing, and it detracted from her overall argument.
The second line was supposed to be an agreement of what I took to be the point she was trying to make--that it's not a good idea to be making generalisations.
All good now? :)
As a reviewer, what is your absolute least favorite explanation for a character that understands Pokemon outside of "miraculously able to for no reason at all"?
Honestly, I don't review enough to have seen many fics like this. ^.^;; But, 'just because I said so' would probably be up there. Fanfiction or not, it's still a story about a real-life parallel and still needs to make... a certain amount... of logical sense.
What do you think the easiest tense to work with is?
Past tense is easiest for me--in fact I'm sure I read somewhere that most people tend to think in past tense, which is why it's so common. Just don't quote me on that.
I've tried present tense before, though, and I really enjoyed writing it--it's a tense I'd love to try again, but I'd probably only use it for first-person, which isn't a PoV I write in very often.
Are One Shots worth writing?
That's... kinda like asking if fantasy or romance stories are worth writing. O.o It depends a little on the author's preference, a little bit on how much story there is to tell, and a little bit on
how it would be best for the story to be told. Like 'Heart of the Magma'; it's 35 pages long but I still consider it a one-shot, because it's fairly self-contained and doesn't any need any more than what's already there. Some might consider it a two- or -three-shot, though. ;)
...and is it just me, or do I refer back to my stories an awful lot? O.o Whoops.
In fanfic how do you handle the issue of how pokemon learn new moves? Do they have to do detailed training for different types of powers?
This is an issue I
really need to start thinking about. XD All my characters right now either aren't battlers, came into the story with pokemon which have been with them for long enough that they know most of their attacks, or have been given pokemon from family members which are already fairly well-trained. Or I just haven't gotten far enough for them to need to learn more attacks. :3
Off the top of my head, though, I think if a pokemon was learning an attack of a differing type then it would need more rigorous training--especially if the attack were an elemental. Like, say, an aerodactyl learning Flamethrower (which it can). They're not fire-types, so you'd think it would take a lot of effort to learn, and since it's not physical in any way, but a generation of energy, it can't use what it already has--ie, its body and weight to perform, say, Earthquake.
But, in general, if we're talking physical training/conditioning as opposed to the computer disk TMs, I'd go with physical training all the way.
