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Age 32
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Posted November 20th, 2008
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Which set of canon takes precedence: Video game or anime?

Since I don't watch the anime, I say the games. I always base the small parts of canon I use of what I pick up from the games. Although I occasionally use something from the movies.

~Golden
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Which set of canon takes precedence: Video game or anime?
Mostly videogame, with some smattering of anime. Giovanni is no longer associated with TR, Lorelei's quit the E4, Pikachu are not worshipped as Pokegods, and Ash hasn't even a brief mention. Nurse Joys don't make an appearance until the later stages, and even then, they're androids:)

I do use the anime format for contests, but since there's only one in the entire fic...

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Wow... There sure are a lot of posts here. -has just found the place-

I prefer neither canon. As in, I think certain things from both suck, so I cut and paste whatever interpretations I feel like. And sometimes you can't use either canon, because you are writing about the way off future or something. The things I keep tend to be the pokemon and the town names, and the basic trainer/gym/league whole structure, and that's about it. Ash from the anime never existed to me. Misty from gameverse does, though. :P

It also depends on the fic. I'll use different interpretations at times. In one story I have, (not posted on here because it's uber annoying long.) the most recent chapter will have an extremely annoyed flameless charmander causing havoc, which goes against canon. However, who says that just because no humans have seen a charmander survive having the flame go out means that such a thing could never happen? They never actually give the scientific explanation for this that I know of; so logically one could perhaps have a mutated gene in a charmander that gives it the ability to withstand this, even if outwardly the charmander is normal. As far as I know I'm the first person with that idea.

So, anyway, hi?

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Greetings Satoshi, and welcome aboard. I'm currently wide awake at 2:29 in the morning, writing the next chapter for the Eon Chronicles (sig explains what that is). I promised myself I'd finish by midnight tonight (today being the 19th, however early), so I may very well not get sleep anytime in the next 21 hours and 31 minutes.

Anyways, I'm half-delirious with sleep deprivation, and I needed a break besides, so I figured I'd say "hi." Now, for sake of not going off-topic, I will introduce a...err...topic.

What things have you tried in an attempt to force yourself to write?

I am currently living through one of my more taxing schemes, that being setting a deadline for myself. However, I have also tried revoking video games and internet from myself, as well as had people remind me to write if they thought about it. These things come into play during severe cases of writer's block, like I'm currently experiencing (no new chapters for a third of a year). So what have you all (if you even do anything) tried to get yourself to write?
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So, anyway, hi?
Hello and welcome to the forum! Consider yourself lucky that you found this here lounge, it's a great place to learn stuff from other users.

What things have you tried in an attempt to force yourself to write?
I don't really force myself to write fanfiction or any other kind of writing for that matter. Even with school assignments I'll wait until near the last minute to begin actually writing something. Since it's been around a month since I last posted a chapter for my ongoing fic, I probably should pressure myself a bit. The thing is, when I want my writing to be as good as it can be, I sort of take my time and wait until I'm in a mood and mindset to write really well. I worry that if I write too late at night my work will be incoherent and error-ridden. (I hope that problem doesn't apply to you, txteclipse!)
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(I hope that problem doesn't apply to you, txteclipse!)
I am a being of the night, so it usually doesn't. However, reading back over what I wrote last night, there are a few details that could have been done better. *sigh* Edits ahoy.

Oh, and I have a book recommendation. If you haven't read it, check out Naomi Novik's "His Majesty's Dragon". The premise is basically an alternate history of the Napoleonic Wars with dragons. It deals well with human/creature relationships, and I think it would be good inspiration for anyone wishing to add more depth to the interactions in their pokemon fanfictions. I know that I probably wouldn't be able to finish the chapter I'm working on if not for this book's influence.

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What things have you tried in an attempt to force yourself to write?

I forced myself to write the boring parts of Just A Brother. I should be forcing myself to do so right now, as a matter of fact. >.> After I do finish it, I plan on sticking with oneshots for a while. However, the only downside to that is that they don't get as many hits and reviews as an actual fic does.

Ugh. Budew vs. Staravia = BAD. D:

Remind me to never pick grass Pokemon for a challenge ever again.

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So, anyway, hi?
Welcome to the thread. We'll be corrupting you shortly.

What things have you tried in an attempt to force yourself to write?
At most, unplugged my computer from everything except the power outlet and went into a small corner where I couldn't be distracted. I've also taken a pad and pen to a park and sat down to write to remove myself from the distraction that is the internet, but either way, just physically removing myself from the internet to get myself to focus.

Most of the time, however, I don't, which is why chapters of anything from me come out once in a season.

Also, thanks for the rec. I was thinking of picking it up, but I was afraid it was going to be like Eragon (because of the dragon link, what the back cover had to say reminding me of dragon warriors on the backs of magical, talking dragons, and because the title made me suspicious -- yes, judging a book by its cover). No offense to the fans, but I actually read the first chapter of Eragon. And then I turned to my friend who went with me that day and said, "You know, this is a lot like most of the Harry Potter fanfiction I've read. Does the main hero screw his male rival in this one too?"
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And then I turned to my friend who went with me that day and said, "You know, this is a lot like most of the Harry Potter fanfiction I've read. Does the main hero screw his male rival in this one too?"
Unfortunately, no. Otherwise, I would have actually read the books.

What a shame.

What things have you tried in an attempt to force yourself to write?
Threw rolls of paper at my muse.

I also think about the parts that I want to write (Andy and Angel getting married, which happened last night, and then Andy groomed Angel who was like "wtf?"), which helps me to write the more boring parts. (Their marriage is part of the reason why I'm more insane now. Now Andy and Angel can have children...hack-induced biologically! Yay mpreg!)

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What things have you tried in an attempt to force yourself to write?
Writing at odd hours in the morning when there will be nothing to distract me.
Writing stuff all out of order.
Disconnecting the internet from my laptop.

And likely some other stuff that involves energy drinks/Mountain Dew/other stuff with an unhealthy amount of caffeine

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Friendly I see. o_0 And who says I'm not already corrupt? It's part of my plan to sieze absolute power, except backwards. Start off corrupt, then gain power. More fun that way. Although, that phrase really does place no faith in humanity, does it? Absolute power absolutely corrupts?

Rofl. Eragon was a piece of-- ...Squished and battered garbage truck compressed into paper. For every page of paper in it is worth approximately one garbage truck full of trash. I feel sorry for all the garbage trucks they must have cut down in order to make that book.

When I need to write, I really just write, or I don't. End of story. If I can't write, it usually isn't because I have no muse, it's because I don't want to. I plan nearly everything in a chapter before I write it usually, so to have writer's block in the middle of it would be hard. o_0 Although writing without purpose is fun sometimes.
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Hey, Satoshi_Red, welcome to the cult.

What things have you tried in an attempt to force yourself to write?

Well, I gave myself a deadline, and that failed. I still haven't written chapter three of Operation Main Frame even though it should've been finished by the first of June. I said to myself that if I didn't finish the fan fiction challenge one-shot in three days, I would not allow myself to go on PokeCommunity for a week as punishment. That did not work either. Other attempts include chewing a pencil, praying and hitting my keyboard hoping that I could channel my rage through my writng. Oh, how wrong I was.
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What things have you tried to attempt to force yourself to write?

Guilt trips about not having a chapter done. Lots of guilt trips. It would help if my fans made themselves visible more often, so I could see who I was letting down. *shakes head in despair* Two chapters up, and two reviews... one of which came so long after the first chapter that it had to be sent by PM... honestly, could I at least get a "ur fic is kewl i read itz" once in a while? >.<

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Friendly I see. o_0 And who says I'm not already corrupt? It's part of my plan to sieze absolute power, except backwards. Start off corrupt, then gain power. More fun that way.
Ah, but what kind of things can you do with whips, boots, and a jar of peanut butter?
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Do we even want more people running around at our levels of corruption?
The more the merrier, right?

On that note, Cool Whip now comes in handy squirt bottles, like regular whipped cream.
XD I saw an ad for that and cracked a smile. I'm not the only one, then?

I don't think this question should ever be asked of anyone o.O
Yeah, they should really just know how many things can be done, you know?
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I don't think this question should ever be asked of anyone o.O
Well, crack that whip! Give the past a slip! Step on a crack! Break your momma's back!

...I don't know if I should be sad or proud of the fact I can sing along with that song.

The more the merrier, right?
*thinks*

It'll be like ancient Rome! Or Greece! Or somewhere that I'm not sure of because I wasn't paying attention to what the teacher was saying.

XD I saw an ad for that and cracked a smile. I'm not the only one, then?
I was in work when I saw that, which created interesting stories about what I yelled out. (And now I wonder if I should have put some on that food product you made me try.)

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In fanfiction, do you ever have a character you absolutely adore one day and then hate the next?
One of my main characters. I feel I've made him too angsty, but he is also awesome, so sometimes I hate writing about him while at other times I love writing about him.

To put it simply, he seems at first glance to be a wimp but turns out to be one of my strongest characters in every sense of the word. That's hard to pull off, and it kills me whenever I write.

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I bow down to your corrupt-y-ness.
In which direction? ;D

....

Okay, yeah, I'm done.

In fanfiction, do you ever have a character you absolutely adore one day and then hate the next?
Nah. Usually, with fanfiction, if I'm writing it, I absolutely adore them and continue to adore them for the next few weeks and then just sort of lose interest in them until I eventually look back on them three years later and go, "Oh God, what was I thinking?"

Either that, or I kill off the ones I hate. And then I love them again because they were so awesome when they died. *motions to Rosaline*

If I'm reading it, I just sort of go, "Eh." Because for some reason, I don't get attached to someone else's character. I just get attached to their storylines.
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Dang, I was recovering from a stomach flu and here I get mentions of cool whip and peanut butter. O.o

What things have you tried to attempt to force yourself to write?

Most of the time try to set a deadline for myself. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it doesn't, depending how busy I am at the moment and also if I suddenly not feeling well...like a few hours ago. ^O^;

In fanfiction, do you ever have a character you absolutely adore one day and then hate the next?


Key from my dead fic, "Through the Lenses." At first I liked her and had a few chapters of who she is, but then I hate her because the story wasn't going well and Key wasn't developing very well.

All the other characters I adore because each seemed to have both a good side and a bad side to them. There are times they would do the right thing, and other times they don't, but usually with good intentions.
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What things have you tried to attempt to force yourself to write?

Many, many attempts have failed for me. I've tried reading the last thing I wrote to get my inspiration back, I've tried listening to songs that have inspired me in the past, I've tried staring at te blank screen, I've even tried acting out some of my favourite not-yet-written parts in my mind to see how they should look. More often than not, it all failed; except the last one, which sometimes gives me some good ideas.

In fanfiction, do you ever have a character you absolutely adore one day and then hate the next?

Ruka the Lucario, who featured in several stories of mine, including Visions Of Fate. I liked her at first... and then, suddenly, I fell in love with the same character she was in love with in an early story. I began to hate her so much that I considered killing her off. Eventually, for Visions Of Fate, I simply removed the love between her and the other character and gave her full affection to a Pokemon I couldn't care less about (who will actually be mentioned in the next chapter... if anyone reads my fic. I've only gotten three reviews...).

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*hands Bay some Pepto-Bismal* Heartburn, nausea, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea! *does the dance moves*

In fanfiction, do you ever have a character you absolutely adore one day and then hate the next?
They all drive me insane at some point, to the point where I want to shove them into a closet and set them on fire. But then I recover and let my characters carry on their merry way. (There's a certain canon character I write about that I wouldn't mind smacking around, but I love him.)

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In fanfiction, do you ever have a character you absolutely adore one day and then hate the next?

Yes. :D Blue in Just A Brother. But, it was kinda the opposite. I hated her in the first chapter. She's all "Hey Green, lets make Silver emo by practically doing it in the forest!!" and later she actually cares about him. Hmm. Yeah. Isn't she just the nicest serogate sister?

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