In this journal entry I will start out with my roleplaying pet peeves and end with a list of why I keep on roleplaying anyways.
1. Overuse of typical words.
Okay, we get that your character is "slim," "delicate," and "prone to being broken into a million pieces." Do you really have to drill it into our heads every single post? I think that the word delicate is usually the word that appears the most often. Her "delicate fingers rose up to gracefully slam the snooze button on the alarm clock." Her "slim frame twisted and arced to avoid the thousands of sharp needles thrown by the enemy captain."
It's like a repeat of Twilight with the words "angel" and "perfect"!
2. Run-on sentences.
No matter how long your posts are, or how complicated your vocabulary is, run-on sentences tend to ruin it all because it gets annoying when the entire post only has, for example, one or two sentences that don't sound correct when read aloud.
3. Too much descriptions.
If you're having a tough time making your posts long, don't be desperate and describe everything down to the saliva slowly digesting a bitten piece of apple. Gross!
4. Mary-Sues.
Having a pet fox who only shoots a couple of lightning bolts at enemies does not count as a "weakness"! Yes, I've seen that before in a roleplay. Having a weak finger does not cross a character out from the Mary-Sue list if she also has electronic legs, the ability to read minds, the ability to control all four elements, and the ability to fly.
Don't think that only illiterate-semi-lit roleplayers have problems with Mary-Sues and Gary-Stus. I've browsed through numerous profile threads and found out that even the ones with size 9 fonts and seven 30-sentence paragraphs in each "personality" and "history" section have the writer boasting about the character's "perfectly sculpted abs and strong shoulders" or "fine curves, thick hair, big deep eyes, and dark thick lashes". It's okay when it's just three or so characters, but it gets tiring reading the same old boring perfect drop-dead gorgeous appearance descriptions.
What keeps me from sprinting to the other side of the Gaian world:
1. There's different styles of writing so it's not as boring writing a long story by yourself.
2. You can learn from other people's posts, and get better at writing.
3. You can learn morals from other users to last your entire lifetime! You can even learn more from other types of people's perspectives.
4. You can make new friends by roleplaying.
5. You can practice writing about different genres.
1. Overuse of typical words.
Okay, we get that your character is "slim," "delicate," and "prone to being broken into a million pieces." Do you really have to drill it into our heads every single post? I think that the word delicate is usually the word that appears the most often. Her "delicate fingers rose up to gracefully slam the snooze button on the alarm clock." Her "slim frame twisted and arced to avoid the thousands of sharp needles thrown by the enemy captain."
It's like a repeat of Twilight with the words "angel" and "perfect"!
2. Run-on sentences.
No matter how long your posts are, or how complicated your vocabulary is, run-on sentences tend to ruin it all because it gets annoying when the entire post only has, for example, one or two sentences that don't sound correct when read aloud.
3. Too much descriptions.
If you're having a tough time making your posts long, don't be desperate and describe everything down to the saliva slowly digesting a bitten piece of apple. Gross!
4. Mary-Sues.
Having a pet fox who only shoots a couple of lightning bolts at enemies does not count as a "weakness"! Yes, I've seen that before in a roleplay. Having a weak finger does not cross a character out from the Mary-Sue list if she also has electronic legs, the ability to read minds, the ability to control all four elements, and the ability to fly.
Don't think that only illiterate-semi-lit roleplayers have problems with Mary-Sues and Gary-Stus. I've browsed through numerous profile threads and found out that even the ones with size 9 fonts and seven 30-sentence paragraphs in each "personality" and "history" section have the writer boasting about the character's "perfectly sculpted abs and strong shoulders" or "fine curves, thick hair, big deep eyes, and dark thick lashes". It's okay when it's just three or so characters, but it gets tiring reading the same old boring perfect drop-dead gorgeous appearance descriptions.
What keeps me from sprinting to the other side of the Gaian world:
1. There's different styles of writing so it's not as boring writing a long story by yourself.
2. You can learn from other people's posts, and get better at writing.
3. You can learn morals from other users to last your entire lifetime! You can even learn more from other types of people's perspectives.
4. You can make new friends by roleplaying.
5. You can practice writing about different genres.
