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Hey, are you a pokémon trainer? Well, come on then, let's battle! I'm Touko White, pleased to meet you! Now, how about that battle? Or are you too afraid to lose? Hah! - Independant Touko/White RP Blog from Pokémon Black and White!-

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Interesting Mun Award! This award is given to Muns that spark inspiration for everything from conversations to pictures! To receive this award more than once means you must be extremely inspiring! But I ask that you keep the inspiration going by giving this award to at least five other Muns. Nothing bad will happen if you don't but it's fun to brighten another's day right?

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Are you still stuck for ideas for National Novel Writing Month? Or are you working on a novel at a more leisurely pace? Here are 102 resources on Character, Point of View, Dialogue, Plot, Conflict, Structure, Outlining, Setting, and World Building, plus some links to generate Ideas and Inspiration.

CHARACTER, POINT OF VIEW, DIALOGUE

10 Days of Character Building

Name Generators

Name Playground

The Universal Mary Sue Litmus Test

Priming the idea pump (A character checklist shamlessly lifted from acting)

How to Create a Character

Seven Common Character Types

Handling a Cast of Thousands – Part I: Getting to Know Your Characters

It’s Not What They Say …

Establishing the Right Point of View: How to Avoid “Stepping Out of Character”

How to Start Writing in the Third Person

Web Resources for Developing Characters

What are the Sixteen Master Archetypes?

Character: A compilation of guidance from classical and contemporary experts on creating great dramatic characters

Building Fictional Characters

Fiction Writer’s Character Chart

Character Building Workshop

Tips for Characterization

Fiction Writer’s Character Chart

Villains are People, Too, But …

Top 10 Tips for Writing Dialogue

Speaking of Dialogue

Dialogue Tips

Advantages, Disadvantages and Skills (character traits)

How to Write a Character Bible

Character Development Exercises

All Your Characters Sounds the Same — And They’re Not a Hivemind!

Medieval Names Archive

Sympathy Without Saintliness

Writing the Other: Bridging Cultural Difference for Successful Fiction

Family Echo (family tree website)

Interviewing Characters: Follow the Energy

100 Character Development Questions for Writers

Behind the Name

Lineage Chart Layout Generator

PLOT, CONFLICT, STRUCTURE, OUTLINE

How to Write a Novel: The Snowflake Method

Effectively Outlining Your Plot

Conflict and Character within Story Structure

Outlining Your Plot

Ideas, Plots & Using the Premise Sheets

How to Write a Novel

Creating Conflict and Sustaining Suspense

Plunge Right In … Into Your Story, That Is!

Fiction Writing Tips: Story Grid

Tips for Creating a Compelling Plot

Writer’s “Cheat Sheets”

The Thirty-six (plus one) Dramatic Situations

The Evil Overlord Devises a Plot: Excerpt from Stupid Plotting Tricks

Conflict Test

What is Conflict?

Monomyth

The Hero’s Journey: Summary of the Steps

Outline Your Novel in Thirty Minutes

Plotting Without Fears

Novel Outlining 101

Writing the Perfect Scene

Fight Scenes 101

Basic Plots in Literature

One-Page Plotting

The Great Swampy Middle

SETTING, WORLD BUILDING

Magical World Builder’s Guide

I Love the End of the World

World Building 101

The Art of Description: Eight Tips to Help You Bring Your Settings to Life

Creating the Perfect Setting – Part I

Creating a Believable World

An Impatient Writer’s Approach to Worldbuilding

Fantasy Worldbuilding Questions

Setting

Character and Setting Interactions

Creating Fantasy and Science Fiction Worlds

Creating Fantasy Worlds

Questions About Worldbuilding

Maps Workshop — Developing the Fictional World Through Mapping

World Builder Projects

IDEAS, INSPIRATION

Quick Story Idea Generator

Solve Your Problems Simply by Saying Them Out Loud

Busting Your Writing Rut

Writing Inspiration, or Sex on a Bicycle

Creative Acceleration: 11 Tips to Engineer a Productive Flow

The Seven Major Beginner Mistakes

Complete Your First Book with these 9 Simple Writing Habits

Free Association, Active Imagination, Twilight Imaging

Random Book Title Generator

Finishing Your Novel

Story Starters and Idea Generators

REVISION

How to Rewrite

One-Pass Manuscript Revision: From First Draft to Last in One Cycle

Editing Recipe

Cliche Finder

Revising Your Novel: Read What You’ve Written

Writing 101: So You Want to Write a Novel Part 3: Revising a Novel

TOOLS and SOFTWARE

My Writing Nook (online text editor; free)

Bubbl.us (online mind map application; free)

Freemind (mind map application; free; Windows, Mac, Linux, portable)

XMind (mind map application; free; Windows, Mac, Linux, portable)

Liquid Story Binder (novel organization and writing software; free trial, $45.95; Windows, portable)

Scrivener (novel organization and writing software; free trial, $39.95; Mac)

SuperNotecard (novel organization and writing software; free trial, $29; Windows, Mac, Linux, portable)

yWriter (novel organization and writing software; free; Windows, Linux, portable)

JDarkRoom (minimalist text editor; free; Windows, Mac, Linux, portable)

AutoRealm (map creation software; free; Windows, Linux with Wine)

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“Wow, yes they definitely are! I remember studying them in school. Do you know what you want to evolve her in too? That is if you want to evolve her at all, she’s so cute! I used to keep my Purrloin outside of her pokéball, but then she grew too big. Compared to yours my pokémon are pretty massive,” 

She picked up two balls in each hand and through them up into the sky. With a flash, suddenly surrounding the pair were now a Serperior, Zweilous, Liepard and Mienshao. The Liepard in particular was impressive with it’s shiny coat.

“Well, Key, this is Monty, my Serperior, he was my starter from Professor Juniper. I got him when he was just a little baby about the same size as your Fenrir, and now look at him! My Liepard, Gwendolyn, was actually given to me when I was a little girl, so she’s the first pokémon I had and my best friend, aren’t you girl?” Touko knelt down and scratched behind the Liepard’s ear who meowed in approval. 

“And finally Alice and Dinah, my Mienshao and Zweilous. This two I caught in the past few months, but they’re definitely some of my strongest pokémon, although Dinah will be much more impressive once she evolves into her final form,”

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He smiles and looks at all the pokemon she had. They were amazing everyone of them. Going to where she was born at sounded really good right now. “Your Pokemon are amazing Touko!” He was clearly excited but he coughs a bit to regain his figure.

“Ah I see. Well Eevee, Fenrir and Scyther is only half of my team. I’ll show you them now.” He grabs the other three pokeballs and throws them up releasing a Ralts, Bagon and a Joltik. Joltik climbs on Key’s shoulder while Ralts hides behind Key trying to sense the feelings of the other trainer. Bagon on the other hand looks around for something. He laughs a bit and looks at Ralts. “Ralts is a bit shy as you can see.”

He kneels down and pets Eevee’s head. “Eevee doesn’t need to change for me, I love her the way she is.” Eevee cheers happily as she nuzzles her head against his hand. Bagon gives out a little roar then runs off. Key sighs and sees what Bagon was looking at. “Oh dear… Hold on Touko. I need to handle Bagon for a moment.” Key gets up and starts to chase after Bagon as the little dragon runs off to a High cliff side along a road. “Baaaagooooon!” His pokemon follow Key and the Little Dragon.

The little dragon gets to the top of the cliff side and jumps off flapping it’s little arms as if they were wings but it didn’t anything as he fell straight to the ground, crashing into it head first. Key sighs and runs to Bagon, picking him up and dusting off the dirt of his head. Bagon was fine but he failed to fly again. Key pats his head. “Don’t worry, You’ll do it someday. Trust me.”

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"Thank you, I definitely take good care of them. We train as much as we can," she explained, enjoying the compliments, because really she had worked hard to get her team and powerful as this.

As Key released the rest of his team, she brightened when she saw the Joltik. Even though she loved seeing new pokémon, it was still nice to see a more familiar pokémon and how well looked after it was. "I recognise this one definitely,"

"Oh, I see," Smiling softly at the Ralts, she knelt down. "Hello there little guy," she said giving a little wave. She wasn't really good with handling shy pokémon so she hoped she didn't scare her.

"I understand completely," she said, referring to Key's Eevee, "I don't think I would be able to choose between the evolutions either, really - Oh, is he okay?" she asked when she saw the Bagon running away.

As Key ran off, Touko also followed with Gwen close behind, confused as to what was going on. Since it was a pokémon she unfamiliar with, she had no idea about it's urge to fly. She gave a small gasp when the Bagon landed on it's head worried that it had seriously hurt itself. 

"Is your Bagon okay? I have some hyper potions we could use, or maybe a few sitrus berries," She started to mutter about different types of medicines and rummaged through her bag. 

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“Thanks! Yeah, she was a hard catch but I got there in the end,” she said grinning with pride. “When she evolves into Hydreigon, though. That’s when she’ll be really impressive.

Now, Dinah, use Crunch!”

The Zweilous was pretty fast, and was able to dodge the dragon claw so that it just skimmed past the dragon’s skin. Double-backing itself, it lunged for Fraxure, hoping to clamp onto it’s side.

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The crunch was a direct hit, the Fraxure now squirming under it’s jaws. It seemed a large chunk of it’s health was taken away, but it kept its ground, braced for another attack.

Try another Dragon Claw!

It roared and charged at the Zweilous with all of its might, readying its claw.

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Grinning at the direct hit, Touko started to think that the battle would be an easy win until the next attack. The claws sliced across one of the Zweilous' heads, which drooped down onto the floor. Still, with a determined look, Touko urged her pokémon on.

"Come on, Dinah. It was only a scratch! Use Dragonbreath!" Touko yelled and Dinah raised it's second head slowly, preparing to let out a wave of power. She doubted that the Fraxure would be able to avoid this attack. 

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wanderingtrainer replied to your post: ROBOTS OR DINOSAURS?

I think that’s a Pokemon!

There are pokémon called dinosaurs? Have you seen them before?

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Maybe it’s a legendary pokemon!

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Really? Wow! I guess I'll have to keep my eye open and hope I see it some day.

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wanderingtrainer replied to your post: ROBOTS OR DINOSAURS?

I think that’s a Pokemon!

There are pokémon called dinosaurs? Have you seen them before?

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uh, okay?

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It creeps me out. *shrugs*