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I'm kinda good with first person... it's better that way in order to express some emotions better, at least... and it's a lot better because you can only have a one sided view, which is kind of an interesting effect rather than an omniscient view of the character's minds, etc...
 
Niko said:
I'm kinda good with first person... it's better that way in order to express some emotions better, at least... and it's a lot better because you can only have a one sided view, which is kind of an interesting effect rather than an omniscient view of the character's minds, etc...
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Easy to say, hard to do...

It's *really* hard for 3rd person to be better than the 1st person ever besides action-adventures where it's "less thinking, more fighting." The difficulty to do anything with 1st person though... I'll rather settle for a much easier writing style rather than to risk aiming for something so high that it's out of reach.

*wants a hug*
 
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3rd Person all the way~

The piece of writing that wasn't that way was a 10 page beginning to a book on why my town sucks. Which is really sad. But, I just got really pissed one day about my town ^^
 
I like to write third person limited omniscient, but occasionally first person. As for the genre, I can write pretty much everything that's not shipping (and that's just because I'm an anti-shipper). I've written angst, romance (to a point, in the form of one fic I never managed to write more than one chapter of and then a part of The Quest for the Legends), comedy, crossover, parody... depends on what mood I'm in at the moment of writing. I also like to juggle many fics at a time - currently, The Second Clone, which is one of my first fics but I've started revising it because the idea behind it was in my opinion one of the better I've had); The Quest for the Legends, of course, both the ILCOE and IALCOTN versions; The Type Chart, a Pok?mon/The Matrix crossover/parody; and Life of a Character the parody.
 
I can't do first person. It's too embarrassing. Plus, in life, my internal dialogue is very detached, weird and off-track all the time. So trying to get my mental mumblings into an actual story is freakishly difficult. Now, getting empathy into a character in 3rd person i can do pretty well (in my humble opinion).

In a way, first person, to me, seems more forceful. It's very biased, as Frosty said. It limits the reader into making their own decisions at what's happening. And to me, first person just feels awkward to write because you don't go "And I felt very scared, indeed" in life, you just think "OMG!" in your head and perform whatever action without describing it. You just do it. Eh. Does this make sense?
 
Yes first person is biased, but the biased view is exactly what makes 1st person attractive to use. Not only is the story more personal to the reader, but it's one of the best ways to add descriptions about any characters, especially for the protagonist. First person favors emotional stories (angst, romance, drama) and can also works as interludes for 3rd person stories as well.

I think that it's definite and absolute how 1st person is more difficult to use... at least the school system up in Canada here agrees with me on that one =p

*wants a hug*
 
Meh, I write pretty much everything but romance. I suck at romance writing, probably because I hate reading it. Most commonly I write action/adventure.

I use third person for my main 'fics, but several (okay, maybe two) of my one-shots are in first person. They're stream of consciousness (dang, I can't spell today *brain explodes*) ones, so they're a bit hard to do any other way.

The battle thread lives! *happy*

Now if only we could get some more audience participation, here.
 
1st Person- I'd have to say that it's annoying to read IMO. 0_____________o; Generally I dislike them, even if they are well written. For example, Stephen King, my favorite author [along with Piers Anthony] has written several short stories in first person and I still don't like them. It's not that I don't apperciate different types of literature, it's not my thing.

Writing Genres ? Can't STAND writing romance! GAH! Last year in English I worked with one of my best friends on the beginnings of a horror/romance novel. I handled the horror, she did the romance >) We got an A though~ So I was happy.

I'm a morbid horror kid. As I said, King is one of my biggest influences. But I dabble-*cough* ok, more than just dabble, in the Fantasy realm. It has so much more interesting story parts than real life <33 Right now I've actually got a really good beginning going 0o; Now just to find time to work on it ;D


Back to 1st person for a moment, I always have to yell at newbie RPers because they go First Person. And they suck D: SOMEONE please click: https://www.pokecommunity.com/threads/44784 and tell me if I did a good job on explaining first person >>; If more for RPing than writing.
 
Well... Since no one else joined the battle fanfic, I might as well go in and scribble something. HOWEVER, battling as always been the *weakest* part for me =/ So... yes best of luck for Frosty ;_;

Yes, we do need a LOT more participation in the battle fanfic =/ It's an excellent idea really.
 
ZOMG! I can't believe it, but I'm actually writing a fanfic ATM~

Very surprising from me o_______________o;
 
I'll participate- just explain what's going on currently.

Lily will crush frosty. >:)

Katsuro, this is the fanfiction section after all. xD
 
LilyPichu said:
I'll participate- just explain what's going on currently.

Lily will crush frosty. >:)

Katsuro, this is the fanfiction section after all. xD
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Niko should join too! Join the battle fanfic thread! =D More people joining the better!

Lily's online?

*speechless*

Just... WOW O_O I haven't chat with you for 2 weeks now (blah and busy all the way until Saturday in terms of MSN chat... work every Wednesday and Thursday, and church fellowship every Friday)

I'm battling Silverblaze already. Plus you know that a battle with you is unfair because regardless of how I type the story, I'll lose something one way or another >>;

Unfair battle ;o;

*wants a hug*
 
Negrek said:
The battle thread lives! *happy*

Now if only we could get some more audience participation, here.
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Yes, it is happy moment! XD

All we hafta do is keep battling and eventually interest will grow as people begin wondering "why is everybody posting THERE?!" Works every time. XD
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Back to 1st person for a moment, I always have to yell at newbie RPers because they go First Person. And they suck D: SOMEONE please click: https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=44784 and tell me if I did a good job on explaining first person >>; If more for RPing than writing.
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It works pretty good, Kats. XD
frostweaver said:
Yes, we do need a LOT more participation in the battle fanfic =/ It's an excellent idea really.
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Ya, 'tis. XD
Katsuro said:
ZOMG! I can't believe it, but I'm actually writing a fanfic ATM~
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Wunderbar! XD What's it about?
LilyPichu said:
I'll participate- just explain what's going on currently.

Lily will crush frosty. >:)
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Oh, man, I'VE got him. XD You can clobber him later. XD
Niko said:
Niko used to do battle descriptions really well... he just doesn't know if he's as good nowadays...
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*shrugs* Just try. Your seniority should reel in a coupla votes, even if your battle isn't up to par. XDXDXD*is hit by a flying truck* Seriously, just try.
frostweaver said:
Niko should join too! Join the battle fanfic thread! =D More people joining the better!
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Si, si, he should. Si, si, it is. XD
frostweaver said:
I'm battling Silverblaze already. Plus you know that a battle with you is unfair because regardless of how I type the story, I'll lose something one way or another
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By that reasoning, I shouldn't even TRY to write in the FFBT anymore.

Everybody else is higher on the seniority thing than me, and so it would be next to impossible for me to write ANYTHING without losing in some form. XD Fortunately, I have a healthy ego, so I'd survive about four of those. XD

Side note: Uh, did you people know that there IS a Silverblaze out there? That's why I called myself "...09", because somebody already swiped my name on Yahoo! XD
Nekomajo Asunya said:
I think I might join the battle fanfic thread as well...

But then again... I doubt I'd do too well.
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Just go for it! XD C'mon, I'm not THAT scary, am I? XD

Odd fact: Uh, I just looked back over the FFBT history, and, uh, I've participated in all the battles that were written! Odd. XD
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I'd participate if my challenger hadn't gone AWOL.

So, yeah... I'll take on someone....
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POSTING TIME, POSTING TIME, POST YOUR CHARACTER AND WAIT FOR A VICTIM CHALLENGER! XD [/random]

Hmm, CB STILL hasn't posted his end of our battle yet... How long should we wait before we give people forfeit tickets? I was thinking of warning him again and wait 'til Saturday...

?SilverBlaze09?
 
SilverBlaze09 said:
Just go for it! XD C'mon, I'm not THAT scary, am I? XD
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Uh... you know what? I just realized something. I can't battle that well at all. My NetBattle record is awful (I've got over 100 losses on my old record long ago in the GSC), and I really can't write fan fic battles compared to the likes of the authors of Frostweaver's Standard of Excellence fics. It's not you, SB. I'm just bad, and I don't want to mess anyone up.

I'll stick with HMW for the time being and try to improve from there...
I hope.
 
And how else do you expect the battles inside HMW to go if you don't practice now? It's a great chance for all of us to sharpen our fanfic battling abilities. Don't forget that fanfic battles are *hardly* alike those of netbattle. You'll be laughed at if you're using attacks like mud sport, stockpile, and other strange attacks like that, but I personally chose these netbattle-wise useless attacks for my fanfic battle. It's about creativity and how you handle each different aspect of the battle, not the battling skills on the gameboy.

There's plenty of difficulty within the battle fanfic that you may not be expecting at a simple glance. Silverblaze thought that he's choosing a "n00bish" team especially with a trainer name like that. I don't think he realized just how much problems it can cause some people to try to portrait a trainer whose name is "SuperTrainer" realistically... thank goodness that I finally found a way around it ^o^

It's kinda fun really. Though then again, this is kinda *very* long o.o; Or maybe I'm being queer as 3 pages of MSWord passed and still there's no fainting yet >>;
 
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