JustaBitEvil wrote:
I used to feel like people who had the more flowery and intricate and impressive writing were the best roleplayers.
I was wrong.
Do you put effort into coming up with plot bunnies and communicating with your partner? Do you try to resolve OOC drama or avoid it altogether? Do you react in your posts to what the other character did, rather than ignore them? Do you give your roleplay partner something to react to in your post? If you lost interest, do you actually tell the other player instead of just ignoring them? If you answered yes, then you are a good roleplayer!
Your writing abilities are not the only thing that make you a good rper. Sometimes I feel like my writing sucks, and sometimes I feel like I should have been an author. Whenever someone has flaked on me, or when my muse is deflated, I feel like I am a bad writer. But other times I think, "I'm okay at it." At least once a week, I wonder for some reason or another if I'm an alright rp partner. We've all got our ups and downs.
I was wrong.
Do you put effort into coming up with plot bunnies and communicating with your partner? Do you try to resolve OOC drama or avoid it altogether? Do you react in your posts to what the other character did, rather than ignore them? Do you give your roleplay partner something to react to in your post? If you lost interest, do you actually tell the other player instead of just ignoring them? If you answered yes, then you are a good roleplayer!
Your writing abilities are not the only thing that make you a good rper. Sometimes I feel like my writing sucks, and sometimes I feel like I should have been an author. Whenever someone has flaked on me, or when my muse is deflated, I feel like I am a bad writer. But other times I think, "I'm okay at it." At least once a week, I wonder for some reason or another if I'm an alright rp partner. We've all got our ups and downs.
This 100%
I have met some seriously incredible writers. People who can reply instantly and show you worlds of imagination in each post. However, these same people wouldn't communicate ideas, would at times ignore something my characters had done, or would even write things about or for my characters.
I have found that I connect the best and write at my best with people who communicate with me and become friendly with me on a normal basis. People who can pull ideas out of me and me out of them. People who throw songs my way or their way in representation of our characters or what's going on between them.
I'm rather terrible at plotting, but people who talk with me about the threads usually help me out the most.
I usually am the one to cause others insecurity, but I do feel it too at times, though not for the other's level of writing but for my own sense of perfectionism challenged by my own shortcomings, imagined or not. I have a tendency to think a post bad only to return later, to the revelation that it was excellent. And other time the opposite is true, a paragraph I thought a literary marvel looks clumsy or try-hard upon second assessments.
Like Doomsday_Brethren said, I suffer when my muse is not in the writing. Inspiration often tarries behind dry or simple writing partners and unrealistic or contrived plots and settings, yet to have none to write with is far more difficult. I can still write great looking replies but they straggle and when the soul is not in the writing it doesn't matter, the contents will feel bleak.
Additionally, I find myself often wanting to impress the reader and if I sense little or no response for what I come to them prideful of, I let myself feel disappointment and self-chagrin more often than not.
Edit: Being a tad too critical of myself.
Like Doomsday_Brethren said, I suffer when my muse is not in the writing. Inspiration often tarries behind dry or simple writing partners and unrealistic or contrived plots and settings, yet to have none to write with is far more difficult. I can still write great looking replies but they straggle and when the soul is not in the writing it doesn't matter, the contents will feel bleak.
Additionally, I find myself often wanting to impress the reader and if I sense little or no response for what I come to them prideful of, I let myself feel disappointment and self-chagrin more often than not.
Edit: Being a tad too critical of myself.
Just like Eve, I'm one of roleplayers and writers who gets to make some people insecure and I'm not happy about it. Usually when requesting roleplays, I'm very detailed, I know what I want, but I also tend to be forgiving when eager partners cannot fulfill some expectations, but they do give me a great time. I don't feel very insecure when roleplaying, but I am excited about it most of the time. After all, we're here to have fun! We all just do things a bit differently and that doesn't matter that we don't mesh as roleplaying partners. There's a way to balance things and there's no need to be insecure about it.
Ah yes, definitely. Most times after I've sent a reply, then I'll read it through (typically I look for any spelling mistakes or if I've accidentally hit the wrong key somewhere, I'll correct it) and notice how - it to me - seems like it lacking stuff that my roleplay partners has in their post. Oftenly I'll regret not having added more details to my repsonse, but I typically write what comes to my head when replying, along with any details that I think is relevant. ^^
I definitely doubt myself a lot. But not just with RP's, kind of a lot IRL as well, so it just transfers here as well. I see so many people who wants such long replies when looking for new RP Partners and that kind of makes me feel like i don't write enough even though i can't get myself to write less than filling out the box to the point where the scroll bar appears when im replying from my phone, Which means i pretty much never do one liners or like really short answers.
At the same time, im one of the few people in here who write in first person, and lately i've seen people write like "only 3rd person writers" in their LF posts, which also makes me feel like I'm doing it the "wrong way". I have had people two times who started getting rude when i didn't want to RP with them for different reasons, one of them only did genres I don't like to RP, which it said on my profile as well, and the other I just didn't feel like the character fit what i had in mind, and i was basically told that my writing was limited and that i "didn't have the writing skills" for the idea this person had just because i didn't feel like it was a good fit.
and then just the regular "fears" as well like every time someone is taking a very long time to reply, like a few days, maybe a week or more, i'm afraid that they just don't find the RP interesting anymore and has dropped it without saying anything.
At the same time, im one of the few people in here who write in first person, and lately i've seen people write like "only 3rd person writers" in their LF posts, which also makes me feel like I'm doing it the "wrong way". I have had people two times who started getting rude when i didn't want to RP with them for different reasons, one of them only did genres I don't like to RP, which it said on my profile as well, and the other I just didn't feel like the character fit what i had in mind, and i was basically told that my writing was limited and that i "didn't have the writing skills" for the idea this person had just because i didn't feel like it was a good fit.
and then just the regular "fears" as well like every time someone is taking a very long time to reply, like a few days, maybe a week or more, i'm afraid that they just don't find the RP interesting anymore and has dropped it without saying anything.
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