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Dustin DeVine said:
My new fanfic will be based around the second reformation of Team Rocket, leading to a series of exciting, unexpected, and downright shocking series of events

*Looks at drafts for Uprising Voyagers*
Welp. Guess I better rethink the plot.

It's shame Deception was cancelled but look at the bright side, you sure do know how to make a post look good.
 
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Delta said:
Dustin DeVine said:
My new fanfic will be based around the second reformation of Team Rocket, leading to a series of exciting, unexpected, and downright shocking series of events

*Looks at drafts for Uprising Voyagers*
Welp. Guess I better rethink the plot.

It's shame Deception was cancelled but look at the bright side, you sure do know how to make a post look good.

WHAT? Oh, no. I am sorry. Well, we will have two Rocket fics, then. Hey, maybe our fics could tie in? LMAO.

Oh, yes I do; thank you.
 
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That actually would be rather cool; if you guys had two different TRs reforming in different regions, then meeting up together. Might be getting too far into RP territory, though. :p The concept sounds super fun, though! Can't wait to give it a read.
 
RE: The Writer's Lounge (Updated: June 20, 2013)

Oh my goodness DD you sure know how to get me hyped for your fics. I'm already so excited for the new one, even though I'm sad you stopped Deception. What happened? I didn't think your subject had anything to do with the events of HG. I thought it was more based around D/P.

Anyway- you have a way of making your work sound spectacular so I'm basically waiting for the next great American Pokemon novel over here!
 
RE: The Writer's Lounge (Updated: June 20, 2013)

Elite Stride said:
Oh my goodness DD you sure know how to get me hyped for your fics. I'm already so excited for the new one, even though I'm sad you stopped Deception. What happened? I didn't think your subject had anything to do with the events of HG. I thought it was more based around D/P.

Anyway- you have a way of making your work sound spectacular so I'm basically waiting for the next great American Pokemon novel over here!

You are correct; it was based around DPPt, but I got bored and decided to play HG. After playing HG, I tried to add a few interregional events, and it all derailed after I lost the spark for Deception.
 
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A fan fiction based on one aspect that the World of Pokemon does not touch -- realism.​



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As my creativity has been flowing recently, per my tradition, post a preview of what to expect in my still unnamed fan fiction.

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It all starts with this little guy, Dia. You may know him from the Adventures manga, his in game parallel being Lucas. Dia befriended Dialga, posed as a member of Team Galactic, yadda yadda yadda. In my fanfic, however, things change. Dia actually WAS a member of Galactic, and was obsessed with Dialga. Dia's, whose full name is Diamant (French for Diamond, his real name in Adventures, and conveniently the name of a French rocket), dreams are crushed, and when Galactic disbands, he runs off to Johto, forgetting his dream to capture Dialga. There, he finds Team Rocket, and sees their failure. Dia witnesses Rocket disband, and meets Archer (who captures Dialga in Adventures). Archer, former Rocket Executive turned mentor, trains Diamant to be a skilled Pokemon trainer. During the course of a few years, Diamant has grown to be an exceptional trainer, and dreams of reviving Team Rocket to take over the Pokemon World.

Of course, Archer has brainwashed the poor child, and is using him as his puppet (similar to Ghetsis' treatment of N). Little does Archer know, Diamant is pretending to do Archer's bidding, and in an exciting twist, Dia murders Archer, steals Dialga, and revives Team Rocket, placing himself as the interim boss.

Of course, what is a Rocket fic without hostile takeovers? Yes, there will be dark themes, plot twists, and with this troubled, maniacal character, you will not know what to expect next. Kanto and Johto are certainly going to be shaken.

For reference, this is Diamant, Team Rocket's newest Executive.


 
RE: The Writer's Lounge (Updated: June 20, 2013)

Been playing through Emerald and hammering out a lot of the ideas for my fic that I'm writing for the contest, and realizing how much more material there is for me to work with, which has led to me doing a lot of brainstorming on writing projects. So, I thought I would use this thread here to kind of get some of my ideas down on (digital) paper, and see if there's any interest in the community here to read and/or participate in some of the plans I'm thinking up.

Breath of Grace (contest fic), concept and execution

"Breath of Grace" is the name of the story I'm submitting in the fanfic contest currently under way. The concept for the story comes from one of my favourite video game tropes: how crazy powerful/terrible things can happen in an in-game universe, but they never seem to actually affect the world and the everyday lives of regular people. In this particular instance, the "crazy powerful/terrible" thing happens to be the awakening of Kyogre and Groudon in Pokémon Emerald. Seriously, how can you not expect crazy storms to wreck havoc on the region?! Especially along the coasts and in all the small islands. The PC in the game isn't even under much of a time crunch to get Rayquaza summoned to take care of everything.

BoG takes place after the main storyline events of Emerald; Rayquaza has gotten Kyogre and Groudon to shut up for a bit, and the PC has moved on to more important things, like beating the Elite 4 and heading off to the Battle Frontier. The MC of the story comes from one of the small, unreachable islands south of routes 129-131 where she is helping the island recover from the effects of the terrible tropical storms. Unlike many of the island's young men and women, she did not run off to join Team Aqua in hopes of expanding the oceans to bring bounty to the island communities, and she's grown bitter at the apparent unfairness, how others have gotten to run off and play around with Pokémon and cause havoc while she's stuck on the island by herself until her Pokémon gets strong enough to Surf around with her. The story itself is mostly introspective and emotional without much in the way of action, as is befitting the song lyrics I took the title from. While I won't give away the ending, I will say that it ends on a high note, if a bittersweet one.

Replaying Emerald: preparation and discovery

It's been aaages since I've played a Gen 3 game, and even then, the Sapphire plotline is the one that's most firmly in my memory, for whatever reason. However, I really wanted to base this story off the Emerald plotline, since it featured all 3 legendaries more, and it was the more well-rounded of the Gen 3 games. However, I was having a very hard time finding online the kind of detail that I was looking for, to make sure that the events I was creating with the story weren't contradicted by facts from within the game.

And so, I decided to replay Emerald.

Throughout my playing (I just entered the Desert on Route 111), not only have I been picking up the little details that I wanted to be able to reference, I'm realizing simply how much more the Hoenn region gives me to work with. Not only the abundance of islands and water, but the cave systems, and the fact that there's an active volcano with a town directly beneath it. The Hoenn Region is rife with natural disasters waiting to happen, which is probably bad for the inhabitants, but it does make for some interesting story material.

After Breath of Grace: Exploring a post-disaster Hoenn

I've been exploring the idea of continuing the story after my contest contest story, moving on into the rest of Hoenn. It would follow the MC and other characters as Pokémon trainers, etc. traveling around, but in a much changed world. In addition to the natural disasters, you'd have the ex-members of Team Aqua and Team Magma, some trying to integrate back into society, others devolving into little more than rival street gangs, refusing to get along with ex-members of the other team.

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If there's any interest, I would love to write and post the stories here. I'm not working on any "real" writing projects at the moment, so writing some fanfiction would be a fun way to keep my writing skills in use. I'm not sure what form it would take at the moment, whether it would be integrated short stories where BoG is only the first, or more of a long, free-flowing story posted in chapters with BoG acting as a sort of prologue. Either way, I think it would be fun.

Another thing I would love to do, if such is acceptable in the community here, would be to accept characters to use in the story from other members of the community, given with permission to use. Especially in such an interestingly populated world, I love having a nice pool of pre-made characters to choose from for certain situations, and since we're all Pokémon fans, I think it would be an interesting touch. I've done similar things for other writing projects and enjoyed it immensely.

Anyway, thanks for reading this, would love to hear your guys' thoughts. It's been a very long time since I've written fiction for public consumption (my ff.net works were purged ages ago, and everything else is either hidden in private forums or gone), but since I'm in between my own works at the moment, I thought it might be fun to play around with a bit more.
 
RE: The Writer's Lounge (Updated: June 20, 2013)

Expect some big news within the coming weeks, users!

We want your feedback! What would you, the members, like to see in TWC? Would you prefer more contests? If so, what kinds of contests? Perhaps you would enjoy seeing the moderators being more active in the community. If you have any suggestions, please, do not hesitate to post in this thread, or PM [smod]Ice Arceus[/smod], [mod]Delta[/mod], or [mod]Dustin DeVine[/mod]! We, the moderators of TWC, value your opinions, and we will take them into consideration. Thank you so much for being active participants in TWC, and we sincerely hope to see you participate in the activities we have to offer in the near future!

Get ready for a spectacular autumn here at PB!

[smod]Ice Arceus[/smod], Department Head
[mod]Delta[/mod], Moderator
[mod]Dustin DeVine[/mod], Moderator​
 
RE: The Writer's Lounge (Updated: June 20, 2013)

I'm thinking of illustrating a short children's story that I've had in my mind for a while, and I was wondering if I should post it in this forum...the art forum...or both?
 
RE: The Writer's Lounge (Updated: June 20, 2013)

You'd put it in this forum if you have the story to go with it, or at least story commentary to go with it. If there aren't any words to go with it that you can add, put it in the art forum.
 
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I have written some of my script for a nuzlocke I plan to do and I was wondering if I could have someone to look at it for advice and kinda be a sounding board for it.
 
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After I finish posting my first story here (doing an important paper at the moment), I was thinking about a storyline similar to this:

Looker moves on from the Unova region to Kalos, where he, a member of the international police, disguises himself as and blends in with the crime syndicate in Kalos (won't name it for spoiler reasoning). As they try to (most likely) take over the world, he will have to find a way to stop them--from inside the group itself.

Once we get further details on their plans, I'll develop the story more. Right now it's just a thought bubble. Does that sound interesting? Let me know what you think. I can't wait until more information is released for Generation Six. When there's enough to understand, I'll surely decide whether or not I could make a storyline out of it.
 
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Thetwiggy13 said:
After I finish posting my first story here (doing an important paper at the moment), I was thinking about a storyline similar to this:

Looker moves on from the Unova region to Kalos, where he, a member of the international police, disguises himself as and blends in with the crime syndicate in Kalos (won't name it for spoiler reasoning). As they try to (most likely) take over the world, he will have to find a way to stop them--from inside the group itself.

Once we get further details on their plans, I'll develop the story more. Right now it's just a thought bubble. Does that sound interesting? Let me know what you think. I can't wait until more information is released for Generation Six. When there's enough to understand, I'll surely decide whether or not I could make a storyline out of it.

Well, there goes my epic chase scene through Lumiose idea, LOL! I think that sounds really interesting! I'd be excited to read such a fan fiction.

I got back into writing, but again, it's a different story line. I want to write a fic about Team Plasma; I actually changed my name to Colress for this main reason: I want the story to be from his perspective. Team Plasma takeover, blah, blah, blah. Spoilers and things. Exciting explosions and stuff of that nature will dominate the story, and I think it will be fun. Of course, I'm still experimenting, but I think I've got a pretty solid plot foundation. Oh, do you think a terrorist attack on Castelia City would sound interesting?
 
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Colress said:
The uneven terrain of the highway, stretching from Castelia to Nimbasa, often flung the shackled passengers about in the rear of the prison convoy. The pounding of the perpetual sandstorm on Route 4 was truly a hideous noise. I, however, was not affected. I sat quietly -- alone. I was confined to a cramped area with the others; they were not frightened. It was as if they knew what was to come, and so did I. We had a plan; I could tell from the glare of determination in the grunts' eyes. We were a detriment to society, this is true, but we did not intend to hurt anyone; they simply got in our way. Now with Ghetsis gone, I am free to do as I please. I was so focused on releasing the potential of Pokemon, but I totally disregarded my potential. I have potential.

"Doctor, what are you contemplating?"

I did not even look up, much less answer her. Instead, I sat there... thinking -- thinking of who I was, what I am, and what I could be. I did not join Team Plasma for world domination; I joined with an agenda of my own. I wanted to observe the world; I wanted to conduct my research. The world fascinates me.

"Why am I here? Why am I en route to a maximum security prison? Is it simply because I was the 'leader,' or did I cause more damage than I had initially thought?" I accidentally mumbled.

"Doctor Colress?" the small, red-haired grunt begged.

"What do you require, dear?"

"Doctor, I... what are we--"

She stopped in mid sentence; everything ceased to function properly. Screeching metal, the sound of rapid gunfire and flashing colors were the only things on which I was able to focus. We were ten feet in the air by this point, our vehicle flipping and ablaze. We thrashed about the interior of the moving van, confined by only our shackles, which were attached to the walls. Three or four of the grunts' chains were broken, and they swung about the interior of the van, flip by flip. I only remember the flipping and the screaming. The gore was nauseatingly horrendous. After the last flip, my chains snapped, and I slammed into a wall, blacking out.

I awoke. I opened my eyes, and I looked around the gruesome, macabre sight.

"Doctor Colress, are you alright?" a stiff gentleman, garbed in a violet robe approached and asked rather vociferously.

"I...am... astounded by your expertise. You managed to... slaughter everyone in the van, all except me..." I chuckle. "Zi- ...Zinzolin, shall we c-continue as... planned?" He ordered three grunts to lift me from the pavement. He ordered the corpses removed from the wreck site and taken back to P2 alongside us.

"I am even surprised you survived, Doctor. It was by chance, really," he admitted.
 
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Colress said:
She stopped in mid sentence; everything ceased to function properly. Screeching metal, the sound of rapid gunfire and flashing colors were the only things on which I was able to focus. We were ten feet in the air by this point, our vehicle flipping and ablaze. We thrashed about the interior of the moving van, confined by only our shackles, which were attached to the walls. Three or four of the grunts' chains were broken, and they swung about the interior of the van, flip by flip. I only remember the flipping and the screaming. The gore was nauseatingly horrendous. After the last flip, my chains snapped, and I slammed into a wall, blacking out.

This is probably my favorite part of that section. While, yes, I love action, I could really picture the van flipping around with a bunch of Plasma prisoners rolling along with it. So far, I really like the plot of this!
 
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I did NaNo once and was successful, but November usually isn't a good time for me. This year, however, I think it will be good, so I hope to write again. I likely won't be doing a novel, since I have a different writing project I plan on starting in October, but I will aim for a goal of 50k words during the month of November, so I'll be participating in spirit. :D
 
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Hi, I've been inactive on the forum. Actually, I returned to just get some advice on a character. Right now I am writing a fan fiction, but one of the characters is stumping me. I have two out of three characters outline in my head and I just need one more. So basically, the girl is overweight and her journey is that if you want to change your life, then you have to take action. The problem is, I am having trouble with her general personality. Any help would be appreciated. :D
 
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Negative Zero said:
Hi, I've been inactive on the forum. Actually, I returned to just get some advice on a character. Right now I am writing a fan fiction, but one of the characters is stumping me. I have two out of three characters outline in my head and I just need one more. So basically, the girl is overweight and her journey is that if you want to change your life, then you have to take action. The problem is, I am having trouble with her general personality. Any help would be appreciated. :D

With the information you provided, it is impossible to even start characterizing her.

What is the plot of the story? What hardship, if any, does she face? Is she the protagonist or antagonist of the story? Is she even important? If so, to what degree of significance is she to the overall plot line? Her goal, as you provided, makes her sound like a rather determined character.

:)
 
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