The capitalization seems to be improving but it’s just madness as far as semicolons go. (more…)
Category: Pokemon Fanfic
Pokereviews Day 29 (26)
I really wonder about the game openings. Is it that people don’t bother to read anything else in the category but are still sure they’re awesome writers everyone else will pay attention to? Or do they see it a million times and think that those may suck but obviously theirs is super interesting? (more…)
Pokereviews Day 30 (32)
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11006796/1/Richard-s-Journey
Dialogue is written as “Hello,” she said or “Hello!” she said, never “Hello.” She said or “Hello.” she said or “Hello,” She said or “Hello” she said. The only exception to this is if the next sentence doesn’t contain a speech verb, which is a verb describing how the dialogue is said. In that case it’s written as “Hello.” She grinned, never “Hello,” she grinned or “Hello,” She grinned or “Hello.” she grinned. Note that something isn’t a speech verb just because it’s a sound you make with your mouth, so generally stuff like laughed or giggled is in the second category. Furthermore, if you’re breaking up two complete sentences it’s “Hi,” she said. “This is it.” not “Hi,” she said, “this is it.” or “Hi,” she said “this is it.” And if you’re breaking up a sentence in the middle, it’s “Hi. This,” she said, “is it.” The same punctuation and capitalization rules apply to thoughts, except you don’t use quotation marks with thoughts.
You wouldn’t capitalize animal or mouse or dragon, so you shouldn’t capitalize words like pokemon or pikachu or charizard. The only time you should capitalize it is if you’re using it as the pokemon’s name, ie, Ash’s pikachu is called Pikachu. This is because you only capitalize when it’s a proper noun, which are the names of places or things. Similar reasoning should be applied to any other words you’re thinking of capitalizing, like telephone or trainer. Or professor.
[ My great, great grandmother committed a crime of mating with a Pokemon. More specifically, she mated with a Cloyster. ]
That’s kind of impressive. (more…)
Pokereviews Day 31 (57)
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Pokemon Character Thread
Is now live. Fill it with things.
If you’re interested in submitting a pokemonized version of a character you didn’t originally create, just credit the original writer and story.
(Anyone want to take a shot at Harry Dresden?)
Obligative Reviewing
Before I begin reviewing random people, let’s get the stuff I was actually supposed to do out of the way.
Pokeween (28)
Ah, it’s nice to settle in with a more familiar fandom. And sure, there’s the terrible Halloween fic, but terrible Halloween fic is still so much better than Christmas fic.
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yes good
This year’s NaNo is writing up a bunch of advice because I realized all my detailed advice these days is being doled out person by person over PMs and that this is stupid and a big part of why I always hated PMs. Is that really legitimate? Don’t care I’m winning.
Pokereviews Day 1 (20)
We begin! (more…)
Pokereviews Day 2 (38)
Lots done today! Not much that’s actually good, unfortunately. (more…)
Pokereviews Day 3 (16)
In which we begin and end on the same story. (more…)
Pokereviews Day 4 (21)
“Normal pokemon like Alexandra had maybe a 5. Momoko, who was born with a little extra, has one of 20, while Esp was born with a 70. Salen and Toro were born into the bloodline of the Great King, and both have an aura capability of 900. The great King however…” (more…)
Pokereviews Day 5 (29)
People can see reviews again! Which leads, predictably, to people getting mad at me.
Pokereviews Day 6 (16)
Some variety, including a dash of science.
Pokereviews Day 7 (11)
Didn’t get much done, did see some new stuff.