{ ＩＮＫＬＩＮＧＳ v.4 } A Thread For Writers

[Silverhart]

Can you type accurately without looking at the keyboard?
Nope. Not at all. Other than maybe a few words and with many mistakes. And very slowly. I remember taking typing classes in school, but my hands just don't seem to be made to fall into those positions.

What is one flaw in your writing that you have recently overcome?
Recently? Uh... none probably. I'm starting to get the difference between 'then' and 'than' down though, so I guess that's a good thing. But from an actual fiction writing perspective - I have no idea how to fix the mess that is my writing without copious amounts of editing. And even with editing it doesn't always come out the best.

[survira]

Can you type accurately without looking at the keyboard?

yes I can :) i've typed for so long, its just natural now.

What is one flaw in your writing that you have recently overcome?

uh, honestly, not really any. recently, at least. my grammar has improved significantly compared to a year ago though, hah

[cocoa]

Can you type accurately without looking at the keyboard?
Yea. I've been able to do it for years, since I was a kid. Just took me a year or so to learn - but I only type with one hand and the use the other for backspace/shift, which is odd. I can type pretty much blindfolded with minimal mistakes xD

What is one flaw in your writing that you have recently overcome?
recently overcome? nothing really. I've been told I use too many dashes in my writing (oh look up there I used one in the previous question) so I sorta need to work on that. I haven't had much success, lol.

[inspiration.]

Here have this :3

[The Pirate Dragon]

I'm toooooooootaly normal here, definitely active, just pretend I'm a commoner

@*Bad Wolf* - Woah, that's a nice start! I feel like it has a few too many short sentences though, maybe making more compound sentences would help the flow? Otherwise it's pretty solid.
@inspiration. - I really liked the story you wrote! I think that Worst's criticism will really help the piece too, if you put it to use. I had a lot of the same concerns as they did.

What is one flaw in your writing that you have recently overcome?
Making everybody white, honestly!

Can you type accurately without looking at the keyboard?
Definitely. I make more mistakes when I actually AM looking at the keyboard.

[emoji movie]

Can you type accurately without looking at the keyboard?
yeah i can type pretty accurately without looking at the keyboard. i typed this all out without looking
at the keyboard. i think i'm pretty good at typing, as long as i'm not required to capitalize something
if i have to capitalize things, it's a bit slower than what i can usually do. typing is just subconscious at
this point. idek man, hopefully this doesn't sound cocky. ^^;

What is one flaw in your writing that you have recently overcome?
i can't think of anything recently? i know there's a lot of room for improvement, but i haven't written
anything in a long time because i'm just stuck and frustrated every time i sit down to write. it's a chore
now tbh. if anything, i'd say my grammar has improved greatly in the last year. i've learnt when to use
'whom', the use of 'hanged' when referring to a person, commas after dialogue, etc.

one flaw i probably need to overcome is the copious amounts of inconsistencies. i seriously need to get
a story outline if i'm writing huge stories, otherwise things change too often.

[Nitro Indigo]

I just saw someone on another website write a long post about why you shouldn't capitalise Pokémon names, and they specifically said not to get mad at them, and any argument against them was invalid and ignorant. They also said at the end of their post that people had personal reasons for not writing good quality stories, but it came off as if that person was coming up with excuses to not accept criticism. /rant

[The Worst Username]

@Indigo

That person sounds inexperienced and not at all ready for criticism...best to leave those types alone; I'd guess that they're really young and probably filled with self-loathing/feelings of inferiority. The thing I don't get is the Pokemon names. What's the big deal? It seems a lot like the Oxford comma to me, since there's no huge advantages or disadvantages to its use or disuse, so people should just do what they want.

[Silverhart]

I'm not really into Pokémon nowadays, so I don't know what the official say on capitalizing vs. all lowercase is, but I could see it going either way. It depends on what you're using it as - is it a noun or a proper noun? If you're referring to the type or breed of Pokémon, then convention would have you write it all lowercase. Much as we might call a specific dog breed a terrier or poodle. But if the word refers to the specific name of an individual Pokémon you would capitalize the first letter. Kind of like if someone named their boxer dog, Boxer.
Plus, plenty of stories, myths and poems turn nouns into proper names, for any number of reasons. Sometimes it almost seems like it refers to an animal's last name (like Peter Rabbit), or it may serve as an honorific title; much as we would capitalize Professor or Mother (Coyote and Fox as well as many other animal characters from mythology and fables are a good example), or it could be a bit of poetic license, or it might just be that creature's actual name (like Toad from 'The Wind in the Willows').

Further complicating matters, the word Pokémon itself is a trademark, which means "Pokémon" should always be capitalized. I'm betting most of individual designs and names of the various critters are similarly trademarked or otherwise protected, which you could use as an excuse to capitalize them. If you're writing an essay you should definitely capitalize the word Pokémon, and perhaps even the various names of the different types. If you were writing a story that took place in a world where Pokémon is not a trademark, but an actual type of animal, then honestly you could go either way. It doesn't really matter so long as you're consistent with what style you choose.

[Nitro Indigo]

Worst, thanks for calling me Indigo! Most people call me Nitro, even though "Indigo" is the focal point of my username.

The thread in question.