Unoriginality OT

[farla]

Chapter 24 (Sometimes the answer's just no) of Unoriginality OT is up. I don't think it's a particularly good chapter, but it's been done for a while and it's slapped up on fanlib already, so posted (Really not sure how I'm going to get around the no-special-characters thing in the long term, PR alone is pretty much unworkable without being able to distinguish between speech/pokemon speech/psychic speech.)

Should be a second new chapter up shortly, as I made the mistake of checking out Serebii and found someone actually advising the "start somewhere interesting...then jump back to the very beginning of the story" model of trainerfic and was filled with the desire to maul them.

Comments

[farla.livejournal.com]

The thing that sent me into a murderous rage was actually the post above: You could start off at the climax of your story and then immediately jump to the beginning--it makes the reader want to know HOW they got there.

Well, that's what I do, anyway. I suggest a huge battle--or whatever you have planned.

As to the flashbacks, it's really more that we've seen people use flashbacks like they're suggesting, and it sucks because they're not flashbacking to anything important or plot-relevant, they're flashbacking to Perfectly Standard Manner of Getting Starter, Perfectly Ordinary First Battle Against Pidgey, Perfectly Generic First Pokemon Capture, etc because obviously everyone really cares about every detail of their sue's life.

It's people failing to understand how the basic concept of skipping ahead and flashbacking to whatever's relevant works because they assume the readers want to hear every boring second of the journey.