I need to reply to this place more often. ;_;
How long/short is your longest/shortest chapter or story? What makes them shorter or longer and how do you make it work?
I can't be bothered going to look right now, but chapter-wise I know at least one has topped about 23 pages, though usually I try to keep between 15 and 20. Story-wise, my longest would prolly be
Heart of the Magma, which is a one-shot but is 35 pages long. In terms of shortness ... I have no idea in terms of chapters, but story-wise it'd be ... well, if we're limiting to Pokemon, then
The Taming of the Northern Wind, at six pages. Otherwise, I do have a Harry Potter short which is only about 300 words.
I tend to find that action makes things longer, because you have to describe actions in more detail, so it takes a while to describe a simple thing to act out or imagine. That said, long conversations can take up a lot of space too. Mostly I don't worry about the length, though; I just think about what I need a chapter or story to do, and then write what I need for that to happen. Length, for me, is just coincidental--the 15-20 page guide (or 50,000 characters, which is roughly 17 pages) I just use because that's about the limit of a forum post.
What fandoms do you want to/have write/written on besides Pokémon?
Oh God, where do I start? Firstly, the ones I
have written in: Harry Potter, Stargate Atlantis, Rurouni Kenshin, NCIS, Yu Yu Hakusho, and Naruto.
The ones I've
started writing in, in the sense that I have pieces of unpublished writing for them (and which includes those mentioned above to a great extent): Fullmetal Alchemist, Stargate SG-1, Yu-Gi-Oh, DNAngel and Lord of the Rings.
Ones that I
want to write in, but haven't yet (but have actually planned or have the basic idea for at least one story for): Star Trek: Enterprise, Pretear, Pirates of the Caribbean, Numb3rs, Inuyasha, GetBackers, Diablo, The Black Magician Trilogy, This Present Darkness/Piercing the Darkness.
And ones that I just want to write for but have no story ideas for whatsoever: Resident Evil, Chronicles of Narnia, Saiyuki, Animorphs, Star Wars/Jedi Apprentice.
That said, my main fandoms--the ones for which I have the most planned or the most written for, or feel the most inspired by right now and are thus most likely to write for in the near future--are Pokemon, Harry Potter, Naruto and Rurouni Kenshin. And possibly Fullmetal Alchemist, just 'cos of recent spoilers. And Lord of the Rings, just because I love my story idea in that so much.
Er ... yeah.
Spontaneous challenge idea: Pick a character, any one you own, with an at least somewhat unpleasant past. Now imagine they're locked in a room with a particularly malevolent Drowzee, who is in the process of using Dream Eater to dig up their worst nightmares. What do they see?
... I love this idea and it even relates to a story idea I've been writing lately, so while I'm tempted to write something
ooh, maybe I can write an introductory one-shot from a different perspective showing an event that's going to happen in the story which will totally fit the theme of the challenge yay plotbunnies it would give out a
lot of spoilers not just for the story but for the character, and I'm not sure I want to do that.
Or I could just find a different character to do it on. *snrk* Surge, maybe.
... Actually, that's a fantastic idea ... *brain's already spinning with backstory to The Rookie's Handbook, yay*
Why do I get the feeling I'm gonna attempt this challenge, even though I failed hard at the last one ...?