What is your favorite thing to write?

[RichestAirPirate]

So here's a really simple thread.

What's your favorite thing to write? Dramatic action packed scenes? Softer dramas? Polyamorous relationships? Or something else?

Speaking for myself, I find myself writing a lot of slice of life stuff that focuses on the human characters of Pokémon. A lot of it is shipping oriented, ESPECIALLY AdvantageShipping...

But I wanna hear what you guys like to write!

 

[WholesomeCryptid]

i really enjoy writing dialouge! its probably the part of fic that comes the most naturally to me, as for subject matter... i notice i tend to write a lot of fics about how a couple got together, and mlm ships i really really like mlm ships.

 

[beasttrash]

I really like writing conversations! Its a fun way to break down characterzation and move the plot forward. I just love putting characters on the spot and making them question everything they know about themselves too lol.

 

[Pick_6]

I feel you on the slice of life stuff. Seems like a great way to flesh out a world, if we know how people inhabit that world on a day-to-day basis. And just because a character’s life is mundane to them, doesn’t mean it’s boring to the reader.

I love describing landscape, and more broadly nature in general. It seems like there are endless ways to describe mountains and forests and beaches and caves; and the games do a great job of giving us interesting locations to explore as settings for a story. The regions themselves are often central “characters” in the mainline games anyway, so it’s fun to explore how our characters interact with the character of the region they’re in. It’s also a cool way to bridge the gap between fictional world and the reader’s real world imagination and memory. Nature is something we’ve all seen, so it’s a great point of reference in a fictional universe that’s similar to our own.

 

[Welkamo]

I like writing navel gazing internal monologues

 

[Mialentia]

Oooh, fun thread!

I love writing hurt/comfort, and more specifically, I like writing introspection. I feel like a well-written glimpse into a character's mental state and thought process can really elevate a fic from good to amazing, if used properly.

Conversely, I'm no good at physical descriptions; be it of places, outfits, or anything else, I avoid it like the plague if I can. This is why I like fanfiction; everyone already knows what the characters and places look like!

 

[LightningTopaz]

I particularly enjoy writing art and culture (not just drawing and painting, but music, dance, theater, and the like.) I have a soft spot for exploring what Ash and the gang (and Liko and Roy too) might like to do outside of adventuring. I have often said my incarnations of the anime cast are more like classic Disney characters--an ensemble of characters for any purpose.

Goofy and silly humor a la Looney Tunes is also very fun to write--I have learned to be careful with these kinds of references after I had to explain the joke to confused Europeans and Australians one time too many.

 

[AetherX]

This is a fun thing to think about. To be honest, I also love writing just about everything everyone else has listed.

I think the easy answer as to my favorite thing would be action scenes. I like choreographing that stuff, especially when it's a climactic culmination of characters and story elements. But the more I think about it, what I love writing more than anything is moments where characters in a very fictional or fantastical setting still feel grounded and relatable. I guess that's slice-of-life? But specifically slice-of-life in a world like Pokémon that is so different from our own, yet there's still that element of relatability. Sure, the characters command dragons as their hobby/job, but they also like getting drinks with their friends at the end of a long day. Love writing that kind of thing.

 

[digitaldreams]

i love character studies and fight sequences! they're two very different things at a glance, but i love finding ways to combine them. i think there are a lot of interesting ways you can use a battle sequence to show off certain details about a character and their way of thinking that wouldn't really come up otherwise, and i love delving into that. introspection and action are both fun, but there's nothing quite like smashing them together, and i think it's made for some of my most memorable scenes throughout my various works.

 

[KOT0NE]

i mostly write character studies and hurt/no comfort ... i'm no good w/comfort lol. also toxic yuri. or just unhealthy relationships in general, regardless of whether or not they're romantic. i always tell myself i'll write something more lighthearted next time i write, then i start writing, and it's gloomy again b4 i even notice...

 

[Kyrî]

I like to write about Pokémon, most of the time from their perspective on their relationships with humans and/or nature. I also love to write introspection, and most of my works feature ramblings about those topics, as well as divinity, progress and whatever nerdy stuff I may be reading at the moment. I'm a huge, huuuge nerd about different topics and there's always a lot of it on my writing.