RPG Writers - Strength/Weakness

Icarusflies

Strengths: Has more creativity in her finger than most people have in the brain.

Weaknesses: Work overloads, usually leave her drained. It's like she doesn't know when to stop sometimes.

Sweet thread ill get on this in the morning

@shadowknight666:

Strengths: Pure raw talent. You've got the magic. The spark of creation still runs through your brain. You're probably the funniest writer on the vine. IC, OOC, whatever. In terms of role play you've got the goods. You sell, you work with people, everything. You're the complete package.

Weaknesses: Everyone is going to say caps-lock and grammar. But I disagree. We understand what you're saying, that's the ONLY thing thing that counts. In a way those are indicative of the core of your strength, you don't take yourself to seriously.

No, your real weakness is that you often wait for others to create RP for you, rather than jumping in and sticking to it until you get something going.

@Closure said:

@Kratesis: Raises hand for judgement

@shadowknight666: No problemo!

@Darkchild: You're from before my time, so I don't really have much!

@Closure:

Strengths: Have you ever heard a song, or watched a movie and got that feeling it was ALMOST something great? As if some obscure change would transform it from solid to a real classic? I get that feeling from your posts all the time. There's something about some of them, a depth of perception, a deepness, that runs deeper than the usual pool of RPG characters.

Literature is often held above genre writing because it speaks to the truth about some aspect of human existence. The writers have a deeper perspective into the human sole, or they can convince us they can.

When I read your posts I sometimes get that feeling. Not every time. But sometimes I think wow. There's something real buried here.

Weaknesses: But its buried! Its ALMOST there. There is gold down there, but its buried. Somehow, some way, you've got to dig down to whatever it is that gives you that insight.

I realize this is frustrating feedback. After all this is a site about genre fiction, and I'm saying your bordering on literature. What's even worse, literature is rarely understood or appreciated as much as genre fiction is. Look at the sales of Catcher in the Rye, and Twilight, for example.

Which sucks to hear. Because not only is your gift the hardest gift to dig up, but once you do.. maybe five people on this site will really understand what your writing.

You're blessed with a tragic gift my friend.

@Coven_: hahaha thats perfect, and i agree

Volunteers for the constructive criticism.

@Ren_: I wrote you a whole hall of fame vote on strengths! But okay. I guess I can do it again!

@Ren_: Alrighties ;-)

At a later date we can copy my HoF vote down here for the strengths section so I don't seem like a b!tch lol.

Weaknesses: BIC time.

Who knows what that is? Well if any of you are at all serious about writing professionally you will probably find out ;-)

Butt In Chair time. That's the time you set your ass down and write. There are no excuses. None. Rothfuss finished the final edit of Name of the Wind while working full time, going to class full time and living in the hospital where his mother was dying.

Now thankfully comic vine isn't quite that serious lol, but the principle holds. To be a good writer, even a passable writer you have to READ alot and WRITE a lot. That's the separation between people who would like to write well, and people who DO write well.

There's all kinds of technical stuff you could improve. But none of it matters unless you can MAKE yourself write even when you don't want to. Type one word. Then type another word. And again, and again, until its written.

Understand that this is one of my greatest flaws. I owe Impero approximately one bazillion posts. When I'm tired, or when I don't feel good or can't get into a character I just don't write.

But I CAN. And that's what BIC time is about. Its the acknowledgement that if your fingers work and your not brain damaged you can write. And you HAVE TOO. On comic vine Impero just probably gets annoyed at me, but if I was a writer I'd be on a deadline and my ability to keep the lights on and eat would be tied to setting down every day and writing for HOURS even if I didn't want too.

This is kinda weird advice to give, because you're at the point where you could actually benefit from all kinds of trade-craft and techniques. But none of it matters if you can't MAKE yourself write.

I do the same exact thing. If I don't feel like writing, I don't write. After all I do this for fun, not a job and I suspect the same is true of you. Writing posts isn't a duty.

But that's also not an excuse lol. A weakness is a weakness, and this is really your only major weakness. At the point you are the other crap is just technique.

@TheRumor: That account changes hands so much I don't know where to start! What are your other accounts and I can try?

@TheRumor: I thought you were Dr. Stahl / Venture Kid now lol.