With my first drafts, the goal is to simply to get all the words in the story out on the page somewhere, without regard for order or logical progression. The goal of the second draft is to get everything in the correct order, remove anything extraneous, and generally finalize the structure of the narrative. The primary the task here would be to take the "second beginning" of the story, which accounted for the things I'd added as I was writing my way through the first draft, and glue it onto the top of the story where it belonged. But I'd want to keep whatever pieces I really liked out of the original opening, too! Because I often write out of order and it's not uncommon for me to have multiple versions of the same scene--whether because I wanted to try different things or simply because I enjoyed it a lot and wanted to write it a second or third time for fun--having to do this sort of merge operation is extremely common for me in editing. I hate it!

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I participated in the second annual Zoroark Games this year, and I thought it would be fun to talk a bit about how I approached my imitation entry this year. I meant to do this for my imitation last year as well, but didn't manage to pull it together (or even a properly completed version of the fic, lol)--perhaps someday. For now, anyway, I'm going to post the various drafts of this story and talk a bit about why I made the choices I did--what I was trying to do in order to make my story feel like a kyeugh fic.

For context, the Zoroark Games are a fanfic exchange and writing exercise where the goal is to fool the other players by writing a story in another person's style! This involves writing two one-shots, one "real" one that's simply your own writing in your own style, and one "illusion," a story written in the style of another (randomly-assigned) author in the group. The goal is to fool as many people as possible into thinking your illusion story was written by the author you're imitating, while also correctly identifying who wrote as many of the other stories as possible. I had a great time, if an abysmal showing, last year, so I was super excited to participate and hopefully not embarrass myself quite so badly this time around!

As I mentioned earlier, this year my assigned writer was kyeugh! With the author assignments made and this year's list of prompts posted, my first task was to figure out generally what kind of story I would be writing!

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I wrote a one-shot for this year's Zoroark Games that was all about glitches! I thought it would be fun to lay out the glitches being referenced there, but as there are so many I figured it would be distracting to have all of them actually in the AO3 document itself/have footnote references every few words. Instead, I'm posting here and linking in the story's notes. :)

Most of the glitches that I didn't already know I found by browsing this list of natural glitches in Gen I. In general, the Glitch City Wiki is a great resource for learning more about Pokémon game glitches, if those are of interest to you!

Without further ado, all the glitches referenced in "Being Human":

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