Dragonfree
2nd October 2003, 06:46 PM
Well, I've talked about my "other fanfic"... and I was wondering if I should post it here. However, there are a few things that make me wonder... will it just get laughed at? Will anyone bother to read it? Well...
It starts out as a very typical trainer fic, except that there's no professor. The main character finds a Charmander outside in the rain and saves it. Not exactly an original beginning, is it?
It stays with no signs of ever becoming anything else than a trainer fic with some plot twists for twenty-six chapters.
Chapters at least one to eight of these twenty-six that don't have a real point are, well, not very good. I wrote them ages ago when I had no idea pokémon fanfics could be anything else than trainer fics. I am revising them to fix the sadistic writing style, but that still can't fix the fact that the fic was completely out of the blue when I wrote those chapters, and although a few things seem to relate to later chapters, it's not because it was planned, it's because later I noticed something in the chapter that seemed very out of the blue and put something in a later chapter to explain it. It's still shallow.
Well, at the beginning, the whole plot is just shallow. It does get a bit of depth when I started wondering what in the world to do with the fic, and took an aim to chapter twenty-seven.
The chapters vary dangerously much in quality. Sometimes I feel like writing and have been going over a chapter in my mind forever, the outcome is a pretty good chapter I'm proud of. However, sometimes I'm writing a chapters, suddenly I come to a dead end but because I want to finish, I write the last lines and they become completely empty. Some of the first chapters were entirely written when I was in that mood. The outcome is a bad chapter (or end of a chapter) that just isn't good. At least I don't think it is.
I have BIG issues with descriptions. I haven't managed to put in one word about what the main character looks like, simply because I find it extremely hard to suddenly go away from the storyline and write lengthy paragraphs about how something looks, especially if it's an important character. However, I have this really strange habit of describing people's voices. Almost every character in the story (except the main characters) has some kind of a description of their voice. Junior trainers in gyms. Some random people. It's just weird. It actually sounds like the author is blind and recognizes people by their voices. Well, it's mainly just really weird.
I also have a thing about putting my thoughts and opinions into the fic. A lot of them. Through various characters. Maybe it's a bit too much of them, I don't know.
OK, I'll put some good points about it too...
The pokémon play a big part in it, it happens in the future when kids learn pokémon language at school so the pokémon can really express themselves, think and have feelings, really affecting the plot.
It doesn't resemble the animé at all. No two Team Rocket members with their talking pokémon that blast off in every chapter, no gym leaders suddenly deciding to follow a kid, no super-pokémon that wins everything, an entirely made-up world, no one trying to be a "pokémon master" (just because pokémon training is fun... and legendary pokémon, too), I could go on and on. For short, it's original (once the trainer ficcyness is over).
Some chapters may be bad, but there are some good ones.
That's about it for the good parts, really. Oh, and my grammar is normally better than this post, I'm just half-asleep at the moment.
So, I was wondering if you think it's worth being posted here or not?
It starts out as a very typical trainer fic, except that there's no professor. The main character finds a Charmander outside in the rain and saves it. Not exactly an original beginning, is it?
It stays with no signs of ever becoming anything else than a trainer fic with some plot twists for twenty-six chapters.
Chapters at least one to eight of these twenty-six that don't have a real point are, well, not very good. I wrote them ages ago when I had no idea pokémon fanfics could be anything else than trainer fics. I am revising them to fix the sadistic writing style, but that still can't fix the fact that the fic was completely out of the blue when I wrote those chapters, and although a few things seem to relate to later chapters, it's not because it was planned, it's because later I noticed something in the chapter that seemed very out of the blue and put something in a later chapter to explain it. It's still shallow.
Well, at the beginning, the whole plot is just shallow. It does get a bit of depth when I started wondering what in the world to do with the fic, and took an aim to chapter twenty-seven.
The chapters vary dangerously much in quality. Sometimes I feel like writing and have been going over a chapter in my mind forever, the outcome is a pretty good chapter I'm proud of. However, sometimes I'm writing a chapters, suddenly I come to a dead end but because I want to finish, I write the last lines and they become completely empty. Some of the first chapters were entirely written when I was in that mood. The outcome is a bad chapter (or end of a chapter) that just isn't good. At least I don't think it is.
I have BIG issues with descriptions. I haven't managed to put in one word about what the main character looks like, simply because I find it extremely hard to suddenly go away from the storyline and write lengthy paragraphs about how something looks, especially if it's an important character. However, I have this really strange habit of describing people's voices. Almost every character in the story (except the main characters) has some kind of a description of their voice. Junior trainers in gyms. Some random people. It's just weird. It actually sounds like the author is blind and recognizes people by their voices. Well, it's mainly just really weird.
I also have a thing about putting my thoughts and opinions into the fic. A lot of them. Through various characters. Maybe it's a bit too much of them, I don't know.
OK, I'll put some good points about it too...
The pokémon play a big part in it, it happens in the future when kids learn pokémon language at school so the pokémon can really express themselves, think and have feelings, really affecting the plot.
It doesn't resemble the animé at all. No two Team Rocket members with their talking pokémon that blast off in every chapter, no gym leaders suddenly deciding to follow a kid, no super-pokémon that wins everything, an entirely made-up world, no one trying to be a "pokémon master" (just because pokémon training is fun... and legendary pokémon, too), I could go on and on. For short, it's original (once the trainer ficcyness is over).
Some chapters may be bad, but there are some good ones.
That's about it for the good parts, really. Oh, and my grammar is normally better than this post, I'm just half-asleep at the moment.
So, I was wondering if you think it's worth being posted here or not?