I've been role-playing since before I was a teenager, so I consider myself pretty much a veteran at this point. 22 years is a long time to pursue any hobby. I don't have logs to look back at any more, but I know how terribad some of role-play sessions were. My RP partners and I always had fun, but I do tend to sit and go, 'Well, I could do this different, or I could phrase this better, or..'. I think being critical of ourselves as writers is something that a lot of RPers, for better or worse, do at one point or another in their time as a RPer. For me, I've been cutting out certain words that I use to death, trying to find different ways to phrase things.Â
I spent a few years without RP, and it degraded my writing skill more than I like to admit, so I tend to abuse the phrase 'gave a'. Smile, laugh, grin, chuckle, yep, she gave one. I've had to adjust the way I type because I was even getting repetitive to myself.Â
I tend to read a lot of 'how to RP' articles to compare and contrast my style versus others, but at the same time, while I want to improve for myself and to stretch my writing skills back out, I'm not really trying to mimic anything else that I've seen, not to any great degree. So long as the people I'm RPing with are having fun, I consider my posts a success, same with my writing style.
Like Ryanti said though, you never stop learning, even if you're a veteran player. There's always something more to learn, and that's one of the coolest parts of our hobby, at least, in my opinion.
I spent a few years without RP, and it degraded my writing skill more than I like to admit, so I tend to abuse the phrase 'gave a'. Smile, laugh, grin, chuckle, yep, she gave one. I've had to adjust the way I type because I was even getting repetitive to myself.Â
I tend to read a lot of 'how to RP' articles to compare and contrast my style versus others, but at the same time, while I want to improve for myself and to stretch my writing skills back out, I'm not really trying to mimic anything else that I've seen, not to any great degree. So long as the people I'm RPing with are having fun, I consider my posts a success, same with my writing style.
Like Ryanti said though, you never stop learning, even if you're a veteran player. There's always something more to learn, and that's one of the coolest parts of our hobby, at least, in my opinion.
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