Post by johnny on Jul 28, 2008 14:17:35 GMT -5
This is post (over) two hundred words.
Within these two hundred words, you could describe a countless number of things – the environment that your character is in, the appearance of your character, what your character is thinking or feeling. You could describe how your character got to this place that he/she is in, or you could describe where the next place your character plans to go. Within these two hundred words your character could see another character, and start a conversation, or if a conversation is already going on, you could describe how your character feels about it.
The reason for the two hundred word minimum is so that each individual roleplayer is forced to give the alternate player enough material to properly get a roleplay going. It doesn’t do good to have one simple action – The white and grey she-wolf sat down next to the large oak tree. – in a post, because no one can respond to that one simple action. You aren’t giving the second person involved in the action, emotion, or environment, and in makes for an uninteresting post that will, undoubtedly, go nowhere.
Also, it is alright that your paragraphs stop at one or two sentences. A paragraph break is for denoting a new subject in the narrative – it does not have to follow the strict “five sentences or more” guidelines of a school essay – quality is what matters in each paragraph, not structure.
Once you start writing to get others involved, and you have a partner who is equally trying to describe, emote, and perform actions to get you involved, two hundred words doesn’t seem nearly as daunting as it did before.
Within these two hundred words, you could describe a countless number of things – the environment that your character is in, the appearance of your character, what your character is thinking or feeling. You could describe how your character got to this place that he/she is in, or you could describe where the next place your character plans to go. Within these two hundred words your character could see another character, and start a conversation, or if a conversation is already going on, you could describe how your character feels about it.
The reason for the two hundred word minimum is so that each individual roleplayer is forced to give the alternate player enough material to properly get a roleplay going. It doesn’t do good to have one simple action – The white and grey she-wolf sat down next to the large oak tree. – in a post, because no one can respond to that one simple action. You aren’t giving the second person involved in the action, emotion, or environment, and in makes for an uninteresting post that will, undoubtedly, go nowhere.
Also, it is alright that your paragraphs stop at one or two sentences. A paragraph break is for denoting a new subject in the narrative – it does not have to follow the strict “five sentences or more” guidelines of a school essay – quality is what matters in each paragraph, not structure.
Once you start writing to get others involved, and you have a partner who is equally trying to describe, emote, and perform actions to get you involved, two hundred words doesn’t seem nearly as daunting as it did before.