romuluz
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| 16 Nov 2014 09:16 PM |
I've seen countless story signups in my time foruming here and to say the least, it bothers me.
It bothers me for your own sake more than mine, as I love to read people's works here and see us all develop as time goes on in our ammeteur writing careers. But there is one thing that has rubbed me wrong throughout my time here, and that is the use of "story signups" to fill one's plot up with characters. By doing this you are skipping a very crucial step of writing-character development, and without well developed characters of your own, your story will end up being boring, and uninteresting most likely. This is the same reason why most fan fictions end up being bland, as it's really hard to write well for a pre made character without completely skewing his or her personality to your liking.
Stories are not rps, and do not do well with character signup sheets or characters made by a multitude of people, as the people who actually did the work developing those characters will not be with you every step of the way. They will also have literally no idea as to what events await the characters in your story, and can't exactly formulate a good destination for the character, forcing you to write statically with your new pre made characters, and most static characters end up being very boring as you don't see them develop as the story goes on.
tl;dr, stahp pls. |
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| 16 Nov 2014 10:33 PM |
| Uh, this might not be the worst to happen soon rom. We should be focusing on stopping the Forum Gamers that will likely invade after their subforum is deleted... |
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romuluz
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| 16 Nov 2014 10:37 PM |
| This was posted more to rectify an issue with people thinking that rps and stories can be constructed the same way with most of the characters being supplied by others, not threads the clog the forum. |
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| 16 Nov 2014 10:41 PM |
Other than Rom Nobody has really done this in a while It only really became a thing when Pawz first did it It's become much rarer since |
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romuluz
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| 16 Nov 2014 10:44 PM |
"Other than Rom"
Is this insinuating that I do story signups?
Are you mad? Or am I misinterpreting? |
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romuluz
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| 16 Nov 2014 10:47 PM |
And I've seen three this week.
Three too many. |
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| 16 Nov 2014 10:53 PM |
...Could you just let people do their own thing?
It's fine if you want to write a story and make up your own characters, but some people like help with characters. No need to get your panties in a bunch over it. |
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romuluz
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| 16 Nov 2014 11:02 PM |
I'm helping others write better ninja by giving advice, and it is rather annoying to see people make the missassumption of stories being so similar to rps that you can make cs'es for them.
They can of course take my advice or leave it but all I am saying is that stories simply don't work if you skip the character development stage. |
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| 17 Nov 2014 04:54 AM |
"I'm helping others write better ninja" it's not working I can't write ninjas I can only write words!11
joke aside, I can't help but agree. Story sign-ups can be fun once in a blue moon, but it's the same fun-once-in-a-while as the muck-around-do-whatever/newbie-style RPs |
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romuluz
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| 17 Nov 2014 04:57 AM |
Well I'm sorry my advice can't help you write a ninja.
I can do it on the drop of the time. You should try harder maybe? How about strapping a samurai sword to your back. That always helps.
Lol, but yeh, the very most I'll do for a story is base a character off of another character I happen to like or a multitude of characters, and then I'll throw in my own personal flares here and there to get a nice, dynamic character. |
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duck14
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| 17 Nov 2014 04:59 AM |
| It does bother me a bit as well. |
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Xyrial
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| 17 Nov 2014 04:38 PM |
...Could you just let people do their own thing?
It's fine if you want to write a story and make up your own characters, but some people like help with characters. No need to get your panties in a bunch over it. [2]
Let people do things their own way, not everyone has the same standards, or does everything the "correct" (heavy quotations) way. |
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PawzKat
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| 17 Nov 2014 04:47 PM |
I didn't mean to start a trend when I originally posted the story sign-up thread. I just, wanted to write something that included the community in it, but I was insecure about my own ability to nail the personalities and appearance.
Then again, even after I got the information, I botched the traits. |
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PawzKat
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| 17 Nov 2014 04:49 PM |
I was aiming for a realistic portrayal of the 'roleplayers in a zombie apocalypse'.
Yea..realistic. |
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Xyrial
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| 17 Nov 2014 05:14 PM |
A. I'll defend whatever I want, thanks...
B. I am not supporting laziness, really. Every once in a while is fine, doing it all the time might be excessive. |
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| 17 Nov 2014 05:16 PM |
guys
of COURSE we can do what we want he's just SAYING that it's not THE BEST IDEA to do stuff like this ALL THE TIME |
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| 17 Nov 2014 05:18 PM |
I giggle at how useless this thread is.
I'm pretty sure you're stopping no one. I doubt your opinion really matters, no offense.
I should be going now, I have nations to burn and children to kidnap. |
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| 17 Nov 2014 05:23 PM |
idg why u need to make the subject OoC:
i mean obviously it's not a roleplay you don't have to go out of character
...just like ALL my first dates! |
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| 17 Nov 2014 05:26 PM |
Looool, you're cute.
Tell me, do you know how many times I've actually made signups for the people in the forums?
Teehee, once.
Including two, but it was private and only available for two people. So please, continue talking nonsense. Some tea to go with it? |
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