Thoughts on RP

[unfeathered]

I've been role-playing like mad (I've had up to five threads going at certain points!) for the last day and a half and I just realised I have got so much faster at it. Because, I think, I'm finally starting to trust my characters. My muses have got a hell of a lot stronger (well, Spike was always strong but even the Master had been wavering a bit lately) and I'm finally getting the confidence to just go with my gut responses and trust that they'll be in character.


I still sit there after posting sometimes going, 'What the hell did I just write?' and 'Will anyone reading that think it's in character?' but I'm doing it. I'm doing a lot less of sitting around drafting a response, then scrapping it and drafting a different one, then going back to the first one etc. etc.

It's a nice feeling, and actually, one that manifested in that Angel/Jack fic, too, where I just sat and wrote the thing. Yes, I did a lot of editing to it, but I didn't have to change anything pivotal. It was mostly just wording and making some bits stronger.


Anyway. I've finished two of those threads now (two very different but both amazingly good fun threads, one with Becky, one with Mecca) and I'm off to watch a bit of telly. And to think about which characters I might want to RP tomorrow... *g*

Comments

[becky-h.livejournal.com]

When I start putting quotes around my own speech -- yeah.

And I'm REALLY glad it helped -- and I had a brilliant time too. And tomorrow? The Meeting Of The Jacks (Aka: Morgyn and mine). I'm looking forward to that one.

[unfeathered]

Oh, really? Now that will be something to see!

It's great that we've got so many people around at the moment. Though it does mean there's so much choice of who to put each of your characters with, and I'm not good at making decisions. I may end up sticking up open threads!

(Well, except for Jack. He's promised to Lis next.)

[becky-h.livejournal.com]

Opens are good for solving that problem, and getting some random interaction and unexpected results going on. And Lis's characters with your Jack will be awesome, too!

[unfeathered]

Oh, yes, I love the randomness of opens. They're just a bit annoying because you don't know when anyone might come and play with you and your character's sort of all tied up there, and then someone comes along just as you're going out and...

Yeah. Unpredictability is both good and bad. :-)

[becky-h.livejournal.com]

*laughs* If I have characters in less than four places at once, unless something OMG MASSIVE is happening in one of them and I happen to be interacting with someone they're very close to/unguarded with? I'm GOLD. But, um. I've played 80 characters in games before, and occasionally done 25 threads at once. Those days are *long* gone, but my ability to screw myself up in RP and not care is out there.

[unfeathered]

Yeah, I know, and I have actually had Spike and the Master in three threads each at once a couple of times.

But I'm finding when a character's new and still finding out a lot of stuff, it's too confusing for me to have them in more than one thread at once.

Or you end up playing with someone like Jamie and are spending the whole thread wondering if this time he's actually going to let your character know who his parents are and you can't really take them into a new thread until you know because they might be all "OMG!" about it (as Jack is going to be)... *g*