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I think it depends on how you're presenting it. first of all, we need to make a distinction between gender (sociological) and sex (biological). if it's a story that deals mostly with a switching of gender roles and not sex roles it should probably be fine for a PG audience (different social expectations/obligations, different treatment, etc.)
 
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Zenith said:
I think it depends on how you're presenting it. first of all, we need to make a distinction between gender (sociological) and sex (biological). if it's a story that deals mostly with a switching of gender roles and not sex roles it should probably be fine for a PG audience (different social expectations/obligations, different treatment, etc.)
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Zenith pretty much nailed it. If you focus on the sociological changes switching g\ender entails, there are no problems with what you plan to do.
 
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Very strange for me nowadays, instead of having ideas for long, adventure-filled stories, I just have ideas for short sad ones. Might emotional, after all I am a teen. But oh well. Styles change I guess. How have your styles changed, if they have at all?
 
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I used to write terrible, straightforward adventure-fantasy

now I write terrible, incomprehensible science-fantasy
 
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Nothing really changed here genre-wise. I still write trite fantasy stories. x3
 
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Zenith said:
I think it depends on how you're presenting it. first of all, we need to make a distinction between gender (sociological) and sex (biological). if it's a story that deals mostly with a switching of gender roles and not sex roles it should probably be fine for a PG audience (different social expectations/obligations, different treatment, etc.)
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Eh, that would put a kabosh on my idea. I wasn't going reference anything adult, but I was still going to imply that the spell actually caused them both to go a sex change, not just switch gender roles. In any case, I think I thought of something better. I started replaying PMD: Blue Rescue Team last week, and was taken aback to an older idea I had for a dual-reality fic that had a main character who kept flip-flopped between two lives: one where he was a human trainer, and one where he was the leader of a Pokemon rescue team. I know that this has been done several different ways (one I recall from recent times being an NBC show called "Awake" about a detective who survived a terrible car crash and began to live in two divergent but interconnecting realities: one where his wife lived and son died, the other where his son live and wife died). My idea basically deals in how the main character starts life as a human, but slowly begins to live more and more as his Pokemon persona until at some point he fully becomes the creature (namely, after discovering that he died as a human and was somehow reincarnated, sort of like the movie "Fluke"). I was just wondering if this sounded like something that could be worked with, or if it woule have too long and complex of a plotline to follow?
 
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My idea basically deals in how the main character starts life as a human, but slowly begins to live more and more as his Pokemon persona until at some point he fully becomes the creature (namely, after discovering that he died as a human and was somehow reincarnated, sort of like the movie "Fluke"). I was just wondering if this sounded like something that could be worked with, or if it woule have too long and complex of a plotline to follow?
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That actually reminds me of the story "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka. With the existence of that alone, I certainly think it's possible. You'd probably be doing it a bit differently than Kafka did, but it could follow the same tenets.
 
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I read a book along those lines, the way the author played it out was the guy was becoming a wolf and the whole second half of the book was a massive metaphor for the battle inside him. Whether or not to turn wolf or stay human. So could play it out that he realises he's turning pokemon and tries to decide what to do, just an idea !
 
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You'd be surprised how into transformation fiction and artwork I am. In any case, this was just an idea for something I had a while ago, not necessarily something that I was going to work on for certain. Besides, I have a few other projects to attend to first.
 
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This question has been swimming around my head now and was itching of getting it out. Has anyone ever, as in ever attempted to make a storyboard for their story? Out of consideration for those who may not know, a storyboard is a series of sketches (or so I think it is) depicting a particular scene in an animated movie. I may not know who actually tried this method before for writing out the novel, but this seems like an interesting way to plan out a story, considering you're more of the visual or tactile type, which in this case is me. Anyone ever thought of doing this?
 
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I have before, actually. Only the drawing covered the entire paper, and it was colored. I wonder where I put it, and why it got lost. :/

Question. Would it be okay to revive a story, then let it die while posting two other stories? I have a HUGE problem with writing multiple stories at a time, but I can delay one of those and move on.

...or should I delay two out of the three, and do those two in advance, as DNA does?
 
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I can't even sketch, so it's out of the question for me.
 
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All the time, but my sketches always turn out crappy, so I never share them as comics. However, I recently decided to make cover art based on said sketches that I may be adding to my stories in the near future (it's sort of an idea I spoofed from Arcticwhite, though, after seeing it in his fic).

All the time, but my sketches always turn out crappy, so I never share them as comics. However, I recently decided to make cover art based on said sketches that I may be adding to my stories in the near future (it's sort of an idea I spoofed from Arcticwhite, though, after seeing it in his fic).
 
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I just realized I missed this:
Lucky Fire said:
Question. Would it be okay to revive a story, then let it die while posting two other stories? I have a HUGE problem with writing multiple stories at a time, but I can delay one of those and move on.

...or should I delay two out of the three, and do those two in advance, as DNA does?
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It's okay to delay/temp-kill a story in the WC. You just have to understand the consequences; I let Disbelief die for half an year, so I'm aware that most of my former readers won't go back to it for one reason or another.
 
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Does a mental sketch count? If so, then yes, I have done that many many times. If you mean a physical sketch, then no - I am not that good at drawing.
 
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Dark-Giratina said:
This question has been swimming around my head now and was itching of getting it out. Has anyone ever, as in ever attempted to make a storyboard for their story? Out of consideration for those who may not know, a storyboard is a series of sketches (or so I think it is) depicting a particular scene in an animated movie. I may not know who actually tried this method before for writing out the novel, but this seems like an interesting way to plan out a story, considering you're more of the visual or tactile type, which in this case is me. Anyone ever thought of doing this?
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If acting the story out counts, then yes.
 
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I treat my characters as people so I often imagine how they would react in given situations. I'd do storyboards (because I love comics) but I am literally the worst at art.
 
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Zenith said:
I treat my characters as people so I often imagine how they would react in given situations. I'd do storyboards (because I love comics) but I am literally the worst at art.
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^This.

I do exactly this. If you're just going to make up some stuff and then a normally calm character freaks out, then it's just out of the plot. You have to imagine what your characters are going to do as they please.
 
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