/vpwt/: Where Did You Go Edition
Because evidently we just vanished.
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>>25265616 Check out the catalog for a directory of fics from fellow writefags,
>https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PtN4D_9CSw8JJ9uO6v0oQqdtKEkS8aFAvfxqI96XfSE/edit?usp=sharing >Can I post NSFW fics? Absolutely! There are no rules against NSFW text links.
>How should I post my fics? Please, for the convenience of everyone involved, link to a host like
Fanfiction.net , Pastebin or Google Docs rather than dumping your fics in text posts. This not only keeps the thread tidy (and keeps you from getting an infraction for spam), but it also provides a more permanent place to store your work.
>Can I add a fic I wrote to the catalog? Sure! Check the catalog for the submission link. In there, you can find a link to a Google Form - fill out all the necessary information and it will be submitted for review automatically. Technology is incredible!
We're also looking to collect ideas for fanfics as a resource for stumped writers. Feel free to throw an idea out there; someone may choose to use it themselves!
Ideabin:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X072SSWulcC6RJRrPA6v9XtyohRybvMBl6Fh49wHsRw Topic of the Thread: How do you keep up your motivation to keep writing, and how do you get it back if you lose it?
Anonymous
>>25312361 We all got flushed away from sun/moon trademark
TheOnlyMoth
>>25312771 Oh man the last time that happened was when ORAS was officially confirmed. Good times.
Anyway, recap time!
An anon makes a crossover of sorts with The Last Airbender, with Pokemon having said powers from the franchise. Is looking for critique. SFW
http://pastebin.com/eAfd6BHx G makes a surprise appearance with an inprogress story of a breeder learning mating habits. NSFW
http://pastebin.com/Yh2i21bm Updated Fics:
traipsingexodus added two more chapters to his Gardevoir love story. I think it's NSFW, maybe?
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11293393/3/Their-Second-Autumn An anon uploads chapter 4 of his fic called Ears, whatever that stands for. SFW
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YReEiaAAH6JaWLAGKLY_EV-28pmbGflFTd7Nq_p1ccw/edit?usp=sharing LuxyStoryAnon did another rewrite of his fic, trying his darndest to get his narration right. SFW
http://pastebin.com/6SUR1w0W Sports Retarted adds another chapter (4) to whatever he was working on. SFW
http://pastebin.com/b0W6QVr1 Anonymous
>>25313162 G is still alive?
Anonymous
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>>25313162 I think that thread was even named ran over by the hype train
Anonymous
TheOnlyMoth
>>25313846 Yeah he's still here, just busy doing other stuff
Anonymous
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>>25313162 >updated fics outnumber new fics Never thought I see the day
Anonymous
The thread died because I'm slacking on Ears
Anonymous
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First for where are the bully fics at.
>>25317740 Don't fret anon. Hype tends to kill a lot of the usual threads
even if it could be for naught Anonymous
>A drunkard tries to beat a water pokemon in a drinking contest >A group suicide pact is built around the belief of the pokemon world >Unusual deaths in the pokemon world, 1000 Ways to Die style >Trainers who manage to catch legendaries have the tables turned on them >A human enters a pokemon fighting competition, along the lines of "Steel"
Anonymous
>>25318031 >A drunkard tries to beat a water pokemon in a drinking contest This one sounds like a fun short
>A group suicide pact is built around the belief of the pokemon world A bit on edge, don't you think?
>Unusual deaths in the pokemon world, 1000 Ways to Die style Also sounds interesting, but how technical will it get?
Those are the ones that piqued me the most anyway.
Anonymous
>>25318031 >trainers who manage to catch legendaries have the tables turned on them like how? any examples?
Anonymous
>>25318174 It would vary on death to death, but probably not TOO in-depth.
Anonymous
>>25318318 The idea would be that every time a human trainer catches a legendary pokemon, the legendary turns around and captures them instead, adding them to an ever-growing collection of human trophies as their "reward".
Anonymous
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>>25318320 Well I can vouch for it, what with the original show being cancelled and all.
Choroy
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>>25318404 Me likes. Go with it.
Canon Pokémon /mlp/ when? Anonymous
Anonymous
>>25320074 So many people here
So much games to play
So many chores to do
And Ears 5 is going to be a two-parter just by convenient separation of mass, and has a trillion happening
I just need a slow burn
cge
>>25320413 >So many people here And none were posting today except empty bumps, and they not enough to keep the thread from falling off.
Anonymous
>>25320525 Being busy sucks
cge
>>25321149 >Being busy sucks I know. My file for Chapter 8 is still at nine words.
Choroy
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>>25321286 At least you have a file for Chapter 8.
>CAPTCHA >COME 0030 Anonymous
>>25321286 You can do it cge. I'm steadily chipping away at three different Pokefics. Most lurkers are probably busy with at least something.
Anonymous
I'm working on the trainer fic, regretting the fact I chose Gen 4 when I've never played it.
Anonymous
>>25321531 Please play it. It's the best gen imo. Why did you choose it for the setting if you weren't familiar with it?
Anonymous
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>>25321569 I like challenge writing.
cge
>>25321498 Technically I have three going right now, but it's the 50k-so-far that's sure to happen, another that's maybe 10k of draft material that I want to have happen but I've no clue where it wants to go, and the third is 200 words of stupid that will probably go into the shredder before I try to make anything of it.
Mostly I want to focus on the first just to get something to happen for the first time in forever.
Anonymous
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>>25321629 I can relate to that. I have more notebook pages and text files of notes and concept than I do actual chapters.
Anonymous
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>>25321531 is it the one where that anon asked about a region filled with deposits of Fossils?
cge
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>>25321498 >Now, 832 words. Meager but it's something. Probably not a good something, but whatever. Nothing better can come of my evening.
Anonymous
>>25318031 >>A human enters a pokemon fighting competition, along the lines of "Steel" Yes.
YES.
They can't have any special powers, either. Just clever strategies and pure DETERMINATON.
cge
>>25323498 >Just clever strategies and pure DETERMINATON. What more could one need?
Choroy
>>25323759 >What more could one need? One punch.
One shall suffice.
cge
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>>25324054 Sturdy.
(Sorry.)
Anonymous
Anonymous
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>>25316465 You don't want to know what "other stuff" entails.
It's not pretty.
Anonymous
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Any good fics with Hunter J as an important character in them?
Anonymous
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>>25320525 Technically I meant people at my house, but I suppose it was worded a little vague. A friend and I have been having a hell of a week playing the new FE game together, and I'm actually able to play Splatoon again. Double that up on the daily things I already need to do and there's just very little time to get going on Ears. I'm on the climax chapter, so I feel like I shouldn't be particularly distracted while making it, even on its rough draft.
Anonymous
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>>25325301 I'm sorry I couldn't resist
Pokemaniac G. !!5lyd4F1oWNq
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>25330705 Welp, the sun and the moon confirmed. Prepare for Space Travel /vpwt/
Anonymous
Choroy
>>25333449 >GF >Something ambitious like "Space travel" >Not something simpler and more mundane like "Pokémon with timezones" >A timezones mechanic >In Pokémon You're not trying soft enough, man.
Anonymous
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>>25334655 >timezone mehanic I wonder how that would work...
Anonymous
>>25321569 >>25321531 and if you have to play it, go Platinum. Try to avoid Diamind/Pearl
Anonymous
>>25336806 To be fair I went straight from Emerald ro Pearl and didn't have a problem. The surfing is really the only terrible offense.
Anonymous
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>>25337669 I just found the gameplay in the two incredibly slow, even before the other versions (HG/SS, Plat) came to be (felt it even back then when I was younger). There's surfing, but then even at the fastest text speeds it crawled poorly, especially in battles. And don't get me started on the saving a lot of data bullshit.
Anonymous
So apparently that roselia greentext I made has been making rounds around 4chan. I think I'll take a request for two if people are interested in more stories like that. Just leave a prompt and I'll see what I can do. Of course, I'll offsite the result for this thread to keep it tidy.
Anonymous
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>>25338631 Forgot to mention, I do M/F pairings, but I am not restricted to human/pokemon
Sports Retarded
http://pastebin.com/b0W6QVr1 Posting this stuff again since Sun/Moon announcement obliterated the previous thread and I didn't manage to get any critique. Yeah, I'm getting kinda desperate nowadays.
Anonymous
>>25339291 Did the recap not capture your fic?
Anonymous
>>25339912 It did, I'm just really desperate for critique since my fic isn't exactly good in my opinion and I'm always open for more ways to improve it. First time writing shit like this.
Anonymous
Alright, gonna writefag up something fierce.
http://pastebin.com/DakjvvDd cge
>>25339291 >>25340003 There were a few typos.
Sports Retarded
>>25340369 That's all? Nothing else that stinks in it?
cge
>>25340559 Some bits were awkward, but nothing worth stopping for. It's mostly establishment and foreshadowing so there isn't much here that is affecting the course of events and thus must be gotten right before proceeding.
Even the typos are better off fixed some other time, since you're not going to press with this anytime soon, I assume.
Sports Retarded
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>>25340690 I see. Thanks a lot for the feedback. I'll start working on the next chapter then.
Anonymous
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>25340339 >>25341231 >>25341946 While interesting, I doubt Sun/Moon would ever get such a plot.
I'm also worried as to how the fuck an evil team has 3 gym leaders working for them. A hidden criminal organization mastermind leader I can understand, but 3 of them?
Anonymous
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>>25342541 They're more of a cult than a criminal organization.
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>25343454 When can we have smut of Diancie fucking Magiana?
cge
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>>25343730 Just as soon as you take a tea ball in one hand, a geode in the other, and bang them together a dozen times.
Anonymous
>>25338631 could you do something involving female zoroark cockteasing the shit out of unwitting trainers?
Anonymous
>>25344248 Why just teasing? Go full-out. Some Trainer's being followed by a Zoroark in heat and obliges her by fucking her brains out.
Anonymous
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>25344248 >>25344315 transformation or normal Zoroark? I'm leaning towards the normal, no illusions shit, but the choice is yours.
Anonymous
>>25346802 i would say no illusion, at least once things start getting lewd.
Anonymous
>>25346802 Best of both worlds - an illusion to pull him in, and dropping it once it's too late for him to back out.
Anonymous
>>25346863 i dunno, i really don't want it to be sexy human for most of it, sexy kitsune for the end. i understand the appeal of what your describing, but i'd rather see hot ruse for 100% of the greentext, especially if the quality is anywhere close to the plantfic.
Anonymous
>>25346990 The whole point is that it is a ruse. Which would you follow into the undergrowth - a girl or a random Zoroark? Now, once you're IN the undergrowth and out of sight...
Anonymous
>>25347048 again, i completely understand, it's just that i like this guy's work, and if he's the real deal, i really want to see as much kitsune as i can get. Zoroark disguised as sexy girl is hot, but I prefer it without the veil.
but hey, beggars can't be choosers.
Anonymous
>>25347312 And I agree. I'm just thinking there'd be some good reactions to be had from the guy realizing he's been tricked, realizing he's about to get raped, and realizing he doesn't care.
Anonymous
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>>25347526 Oh, definitely. Both options sound really fucking nice.
I'm just gonna stick to my guns, though. It's really up to the guy writing the story. Hope you don't mind.
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>25346816 >>25346863 Alright I'll see what I can do. I'll probably lean onto normal Zoroark unless I can think of something creative. Keep an eye on /box/ threads on /b/ in...maybe sunday if I can get it working again.
Anonymous
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>>25350195 don't know how I could thank you man. can't wait!
Anonymous
What happened to the fic with an anon writing a character called Josephine? It's not in the catalog.
Anonymous
>>25350416 You'll have to check vp's archive for it.
Reminder that fics do not get put into the catalog unless they are submitted in the Google docs form on the link in the OP
Anonymous
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>>25350515 it is only as full as the writers make it, after all.
Unown
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>>25312361 >How do you keep up your motivation to keep writing? Honestly, make work into digestible chunks, talk through writer's block and logjams with others, and if you're honestly stuck or just not in a healthy mood to write, take some time and unwind from the grind instead of shooting yourself in the foot for the quality of your work.
>How do you get it back if you lose it? Identify what the main thing you're "stuck" on is, and try to attack it. If you're stuck on how to progress through a scene, talk it out with someone. If you're swamped with stuff to do, look at the plans and see if you can either cut down on what you need to do, or parcel it into digestible pieces. If you're burnt-out, take a break and pick up the pen again after a few days to relax and unwind.
On the note of staying motivated, I punted out another chapter. This one's a little shorter, but hopefully is a bit tauter in pacing and things coming together than the last two.
FFN:
>https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11084689/30/Fledglings AO3:
>http://archiveofourown.org/works/3465593/chapters/14018953 And now onto the next one.
Anonymous
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>>25343730 I don't know. Magiana would be able to Gear Grind Diancie until she's no more
Anonymous
