Are you going to treat this as a casual roleplay? Or will you try to convert it to a semi-lit+ roleplay?![]()
Generally I try to stay literate, however due to a recent drain of creativity fluids I've been reduced to badly structured dialogue in opposed to my normal posts. Then again, I don't push myself as hard for SBS in comparison to the extent I go to for other roleplays I'm in so...
(Other roleplays require me to write about 1-2 pages per post at minimum, so I use this one to relax on the side...)
Literate =/= large post, and there's nothing wrong with your dialogue, or being dialogue heavy in general - in fact, I find I tend to be too heavy on actions, which is far more detrimental than having a lot of dialogue.
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*twitches*
T..that's just...
...holy crap. I only write 1-2 pages on my rants and criticisms for whole stories. The idea of writing up 1-2 pages for each post...
*passes out*
Not kidding there, I have a Microsoft word document over 200 pages from a roleplay I've been in. And they're all MY posts.
...this is because he hangs around with pretentious elitist wannabe writers.
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How can you actually roleplay with posts that long anyway? Unless its a roleplay where one player is in a library and the other is a book, I don't see how that works. I've always considered it one of the flaws of online/text based roleplays that characters often end up taking turns to respond to five different questions at a time. It sounds unnatural. Same as there's only so much action you can describe at any one time without automatically god-modding.
If you've got a lot of discussions between own characters, or solo actions, then that works. But for general role play? How...