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

[unfeathered]

Yep, Jack/Master has been great. And very, very helpful in finding my Master muse again. So thank you for that. Still have no idea where he's going from here, but I have more confidence that I'll know when he gets there!

[morgynleri]

Speaking of that thread, I'm going to label it finished. Which will leave me with one unfinished thread, and a bunch of characters to figure out what I'm doing with...

Though I know where chaos!Jack is heading next, at least. *giggles madly*

[unfeathered]

Yeah, it's finished. I have several threads I need to go and label finished at some point too.

And I know where your Jack is going next. Becky told me - up there somewhere. *points up at comments* :-)