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What is your favorite thing to write?

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RichestAirPirate

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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!
 
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.
 
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.
 
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!
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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... :slowpoke:
 
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.
 
Oh, boy oh boy, oh boy do I love writing psychological horror with all my body and soul. My main work, (it's a very long epic with multiple books by the way), Silence is Purple is a psychological trauma military horror Genshin fanfiction where horrifying things can, and will, happen at any given point. And, of course, introspective thoughts instead of constant dialogue because I am writing a main character with severe selective mutism across multiple different universes. (Silence is Purple is not the only thing I write js.)

i have had multiple people tell me "give Siorc a break!" so I am going to write a book about him being a cat owner for that very specific group of people lol
 
RichestAirPirate said:
slice of life stuff that focuses on the human characters of Pokémon.
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To elaborate on this, I personally feel like the humans of Pokemon are really overlooked in the games, especially the gym leaders and elite 4 members. They’re given all these unique designs and personalities but get like an hour of screen time.

They’re kinda like the robot masters of Mega Man. Fun and charming fellas but they’re just boss fights. (At least in Mega Man you get to rematch them. That’s not even guaranteed in some Pokemon games!)
 
I do like writing a mystery or a crime that characters have to solve. Setting up the who, what, when, where and why is a story in and of itself, a story within another story if you want to see it like that. Figuring out how the offscreen events happened and planting the clues that the perps left behind is a lot of fun and even more so when you can re-trace your own steps and write the characters finding the clues that are placed there to solve the mystery. It's almost like seeing someone play and solve a game you made. Pretty satisfying at the end when it all comes together.
 
Crossovers involving Mario are a tradition of mine. I've had to resist that habit.
Yeah useful physical descriptions are sort of new to me. Most characters in my old fics weren't designed, and if drawn at all it was just pencil scrawling.

Taking jabs at toxicity is something else I enjoy. I can't deny some of my OCs are intended to lampoon frivolous drama.
 
describing things and people in Limited Third Person, especially if I get the character's "voice" right with the narration

for example, Spheal isn't "a chubby, spherical, seal-like Pokémon with a short, flat tail. Its plushy fur is light blue with several white spots of various sizes on its back. It has black, circular eyes; small tusks protruding from its upper jaw; and small, rounded ears. Its stubby flippers and its underside are both beige" as per their profile here on Bulbapedia

no, Spheal "looked like a seal and a beach ball had a baby" and that's that haha
 
I think mainly I like writing dialogue, character studies, and hurt/comfort the most.

I love writing banter and little interactions between characters and trying to get their voices just right, (I also like writing in third person limited as an extension of that), but I also love anything that can become a character study/introspection. It tends to end up a part of anything I write, no matter how mundane or how dramatic.

I'm also a sucker for hurt/comfort, even whump. I love to put my favorite characters through the wringer, then let them slowly recover with their loved ones. I think that ties back into being so interested in character studies for me. The question of how they handle adversity, how that changes them, and how they recover from it.
 
Favorite as in the most fun to write in the moment? Crack/shitpost fics, both the kind that take a ridiculous concept and approach it (semi-)seriously and the kind that’s blatant nonsense the whole way through.

Favorite as in most satisfying? First-person character studies.
 
My favorite thing to write is honestly scenes immediately following tragedies. I have a ton of drabbles and snippets just exploring how characters process grief and the sort of hollow that comes with knowing some things can’t be changed- and how depending on the character, it can vary between really purple-y prose or broken sentences. Which leads to practicing in different styles

…such practices do often take a mental toll on me though, which is why I ultimately have more polished silly oneshots about found family and crushes and the like lol. Definitely need a palate cleanser after dabbling in that sort of headspace. One’s self-indulgent in all the wrong ways, the other’s what I can actually share with others (ᵕ—ᴗ—)
 
I'm a non-fiction writer myself. Essays and memoirs are my favourite things to write! Right now I'm working on my capstone project for my creative writing degree, which is sort of a hybrid lyrical prose (think Maggie Nelson, if you've read her. if not... read her!) about a monk living alone in a monastery, but the whole thing is an allegory for being a queer spirtitual seeker, which can be really lonely. I promise it sounds more pretentious than it actually is, lol. either way, it has been a lot of fun to write so far :)
 
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