Inspiration and Titles

I think it's pretty obvious where the inspiration for Follow Me came from: the special Celebi event. Reading about it and seeing the event on YouTube, I was so horrendously fascinated with it. It got me thinking, though; what would happen after that? Would she tell him about it? How would he react? Would Silver want to try and find his father? These questions were the basis of Follow Me's plot.

I was just starting to like the SS Ship at the time, and I was thinking about writing a fanfiction. I had two options: one was the idea that fleshed out into Follow Me, and the other was a songfic (which I may just post eventually, if I don't turn it into a doujinshi instead, provided I have the patience to tackle such an artistic endeavor with my lack of artistic ability). I (obviously) went with the follow-up to the Celebi event plan, and with ideas pouring into my brain, I started writing.

I'm terrible with titles. Or at least I have been as of late. D: I didn't used to be; I used to pride myself on coming up with clever, witty titles for stories and chapters. However, I must have misplaced this ability, because it's all but left me. Chapter One of Follow Me came and went without so much as a Story Title, much less a Chapter Title. Looking over the completed chapter, I scratched my head and wrote, "Return" at the top of the page, referencing Soul's return to Johto. Continuing on, I wrote Chapter Two and arrived at the same issue. Thinking for a moment, a thought occurred to me: maybe I could name everything after Pokemon moves...?

As someone has already pointed out in a review, all of Follow Me's Chapter Titles (and the story's name itself) are Pokemon Moves (as well as Abilities, which I added for some extra range). I rigged up a table in GoogleDocs and hand typed the entire list; now whenever a new Chapter is written, I examine that list, looking for potential candidates. I narrow it down to two or three, then from those few I pick the final title. Chapter Five: Nightmare, by the way, was almost called "Bad Dreams," but I decided to save the plural form for another chapter, possibly one where both Soul and Silver are having nightmares. I wonder now if that was a bad idea, since so many people seemed confused about the fact that Chapter Five "didn't happen." :x

The story title, "Follow Me" is of course from the list of Pokemon Moves. The meaning of it has yet to surface, but it will, eventually, I promise. c:

Anyhoo, that's it for this update. See you guys next week. Feel free to drop a comment if there's something you'd like to hear me talk about; if not, I'll just keep rambling about things that occur to me. Cheers!