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Strawberry Fields Forever ([personal profile] table_chan) wrote2009-04-13 08:57 pm

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So.

Anyone, know any good ways to get out slumps in rp?

I'm so fucking stuck right now, and like, I want to do things, but I just can't bring myself too ;___; The thought of dropping every game I have and just disappearing has crossed my mind a few times, but I love all my bbs too much so I could never do that to you guys ever *Cradles* I've tried going in the dressing room and threading around but I generally end up dropping the threads, which...is what I've been doing in all of my rps 8( *punches self out a window*

So please. Take this time to use this as a critique thread for me. I know I need to thread more, I just....idk. Maybe that's why I'm really down. We haven't had an HMD in AT for months. And no one uses personal crit posts. so yea 8( go for it.

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[identity profile] gearcheim.livejournal.com 2009-04-14 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
Unfortunately, AT HMD has proven to be rarely productive, anyway. :|

And, to be honest, the activity level hasn't been efficient enough to warrant a gamewide HMD because there really hasn't been enough for people to properly judge, which only encourages the useless comments that people aren't looking for. I see you already recognize that (too lazy to delete now though baaww), and I mean, gamewide HMD every month was actually pretty unheard of as far as I knew (games like Poly would only do HMD every 6 months for example), so I felt doing it every month was overdoing it to begin with for such a small game. And when people come to me like "I want an HMD thread so I can tell people how awesome they are" I really don't want to put up an HMD thread because I don't feel like that's the point of an HMD thread. You guys want honest feedback, and people just being like "ilu you're awesome" isn't enough a lot of times, and when you're feeling you really need the crit, sometimes that "positive" reinforcement might as well not be there at all because it just somehow makes it worse. 8(

Stop trying so hard. It's supposed to be fun. I get into RP slumps all the time. You just gotta take a step back and ask yourself why you're having the slump. Are you bored? Frustrated with yourself? With others? Sometimes your rping/writing/etc. is a result of outside issues that you don't focus on because you see it as a problem with yourself (since that is the end result).

I know personally that even when I'm having issues with others or whatever, it always reflects in my characterization and/or my writing. Particularly with Caim, probably because he's an OC so his mood is much more flighty and I have less of a grasp on what it should be. Seriously, you know how much I love him, but there are times I want to dump him and I regret ever introducing him.

It's natural, bb. Just understand that. And if you need a break, take a break. It's better to do that than beat a dead horse, as your friend above already said.

[identity profile] table-chan.livejournal.com 2009-04-14 06:54 am (UTC)(link)
Yea...sorry I really need to edit my post so you don't look like the bad guy fksdja You're definitely right about the 'ilu you're awesome thing' I've gotten decent crit from two sources, which was really nice to hear (even if at first I'm fjlsdjakljfl 8( that I'm not doing something right *too sensitive*). But yea...a hmd post, with only like 5 players active is no good lol

You're right jkflsda I think I might know what's bothering me and throwing me into this funk, and I just need to deal with it now rather than keep putting it off like I have been. And the break might be good. After this plot in AT l-lol.

Thank you very much bb *hugs* This helped a lot. <3

[identity profile] gearcheim.livejournal.com 2009-04-14 02:30 pm (UTC)(link)
OH, you're not making me look like a bad guy at all! I know a lot of people keep wondering why I haven't done an HMD post, and I haven't been good about explaining myself and other than the fact I'm lazy/keep forgetting, I just want people to understand. I honestly don't feel like a badguy with what you said edited or not (understand the background or not), but if you were frustrated by it I did want you to at least know I was paying attention to your concerns and I had my reasons for not doing one, not that I was just like "lol guys suffer without crit 8) 8) 8)"

*picks up and twirls* You'll be okay ♥ ♥ I think AT is gonna be pretty slow in the next month, anyway, after this plot with finals, so now is the best time to take a break and you won't have to stress about missing too much for when you come back! :)