What happens when I have to much time on my hands at work? I create stories from a simple question. The question for this story: What would it take to get Weaver to evolve?
This story is posted with
kaemantis permission as a non-canon fanfic-art-thing. The story just kinda hit me one day and it turned into what this is. Thanks to her for letting me post it...and again, Non-Canon. Enjoy!
Pokemon belongs to Nintendo and Creature Freaks
This story is posted with
kaemantis permission as a non-canon fanfic-art-thing. The story just kinda hit me one day and it turned into what this is. Thanks to her for letting me post it...and again, Non-Canon. Enjoy!Pokemon belongs to Nintendo and Creature Freaks
Category Story / Pokemon
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Boris has a sense of humor. Its just....buried. Deeply. And only comes out on blue moons. <.< >.>
And thank you for the compliment. I try and put a lot of emotion into each of my stories because it makes them come out better. This one was fun to write if anything for the big production number at the end...PCA stuff needs more big production numbers.
And thank you for the compliment. I try and put a lot of emotion into each of my stories because it makes them come out better. This one was fun to write if anything for the big production number at the end...PCA stuff needs more big production numbers.
This is a structural complaint, which I generally detest making, just FYI. I'm not sure if this has remained consistent in your more recent stories, but you have a particular quirk that impacts the readability of your stories.
When a character's dialogue begins a paragraph, it is common practice to place the character's name somewhere after it to indicate who has spoken. This is not, of course, necessary to do if the flow of conversation is either transparent or unimportant. However, you very, very often will continue with action or a response from another character directly after the first speaks. I find this very confusing, because it makes it sound like that second character has spoken. After figuring it out, of course, I've learned to cope, but it is nevertheless a very disconcerting habit.
Allow me to give an example, right from this story.
Both glanced up to see Boris and Duncan the Sudowoodo approaching them. Hokori couldn’t help but smirk as she saw the Team Generation member.
“Here I thought you guys wouldn’t want to talk to us after what happened,” Duncan grinned at the leader of team Nocturne and rubbed the back of his head with a rough hand.
“Nah, we don’t hold it against you guys,” He said, lowering his arm, “besides, it makes quieter at practice,” Hokori give a little snort of a laugh before looking back towards Weaver who was still stunned.
This section contains two instances of this occurrence. In the second paragraph, it is not immediately clear who is speaking. Hokori is mentioned prior to the dialogue, but her actions don't necessarily mean she is going to speak; likewise, Duncan is mentioned directly after the dialogue, and given the inclusion of the ," directly before his name, it suggests that the dialogue is his.
Reading on, we see that this is not the case, and the entire scene becomes extremely confusing. You specifically tell us that "he," meaning Duncan, has said the second dialogue line, but again you follow up with a comma-quote combination, which again suggests that Hokori has spoken.
Two things could be done to clear these up. First, make sure you end dialogue with a period in the quote if the person has finished speaking. It seems nitpicky, but in this case, punctuation makes all the difference as far as readability is concerned.
Second, if you want to avoid overuse of dialogue tags, and you should, set single lines of dialogue off on their own. Doing this, the first paragraph transition would become:
Hokori couldn’t help but smirk as she saw the Team Generation member.
“Here I thought you guys wouldn’t want to talk to us after what happened.”
Duncan grinned at the leader of team Nocturne and rubbed the back of his head with a rough hand.
You could also, in this case, tack the dialogue on to the end of that first paragraph, so that we are absolutely certain it is Hokori who is speaking.
Like I said, I don't know if you've continued this trend in recent work, but I feel it is a problem and I wanted to point it out. I'm sorry for being a little tl;dr, and I'm also sorry for harping on structure, but... well, I just hope I'm clear about everything. c.c
When a character's dialogue begins a paragraph, it is common practice to place the character's name somewhere after it to indicate who has spoken. This is not, of course, necessary to do if the flow of conversation is either transparent or unimportant. However, you very, very often will continue with action or a response from another character directly after the first speaks. I find this very confusing, because it makes it sound like that second character has spoken. After figuring it out, of course, I've learned to cope, but it is nevertheless a very disconcerting habit.
Allow me to give an example, right from this story.
Both glanced up to see Boris and Duncan the Sudowoodo approaching them. Hokori couldn’t help but smirk as she saw the Team Generation member.
“Here I thought you guys wouldn’t want to talk to us after what happened,” Duncan grinned at the leader of team Nocturne and rubbed the back of his head with a rough hand.
“Nah, we don’t hold it against you guys,” He said, lowering his arm, “besides, it makes quieter at practice,” Hokori give a little snort of a laugh before looking back towards Weaver who was still stunned.
This section contains two instances of this occurrence. In the second paragraph, it is not immediately clear who is speaking. Hokori is mentioned prior to the dialogue, but her actions don't necessarily mean she is going to speak; likewise, Duncan is mentioned directly after the dialogue, and given the inclusion of the ," directly before his name, it suggests that the dialogue is his.
Reading on, we see that this is not the case, and the entire scene becomes extremely confusing. You specifically tell us that "he," meaning Duncan, has said the second dialogue line, but again you follow up with a comma-quote combination, which again suggests that Hokori has spoken.
Two things could be done to clear these up. First, make sure you end dialogue with a period in the quote if the person has finished speaking. It seems nitpicky, but in this case, punctuation makes all the difference as far as readability is concerned.
Second, if you want to avoid overuse of dialogue tags, and you should, set single lines of dialogue off on their own. Doing this, the first paragraph transition would become:
Hokori couldn’t help but smirk as she saw the Team Generation member.
“Here I thought you guys wouldn’t want to talk to us after what happened.”
Duncan grinned at the leader of team Nocturne and rubbed the back of his head with a rough hand.
You could also, in this case, tack the dialogue on to the end of that first paragraph, so that we are absolutely certain it is Hokori who is speaking.
Like I said, I don't know if you've continued this trend in recent work, but I feel it is a problem and I wanted to point it out. I'm sorry for being a little tl;dr, and I'm also sorry for harping on structure, but... well, I just hope I'm clear about everything. c.c
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