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Post by strange on Jul 7, 2009 23:06:57 GMT -4
i said GENERALLY. Read it properly. People around here are always quick with a response but not necessarily a good one. Just because you are able to name one occasion where it didn't happen that way doesn't make me wrong... I could name hundreds where the better rp didn't win over the longer one. Not particularly in this federation cause its seems to be exactly how it is advertised here but as I said... in GENERAL. To be honest usually after about a 10-15 page read it starts to get tedious and stupid... and sometimes much earlier than that. I have problems with confidence in my own RP's the most, I scrap them and then think "wait, that was good" and do the same exact thing over again, than I think that its stupid again and do something completely different. They would probably be a lot better if I wasn't so self conscious about the way their coming off. I used to have problems in a different fed with the owner because I was so damn sure I had won and there was no chance the other guy won but sure enough come results time the other guy would win. I would get pissed because I had serious problems with the way they judged the results. The opponent would do his little "rant" and say shit that made absolutely no sense with typos, inconstancy's and just plain falsehoods, I would respond by discrediting every single thing they said and just plain embarrassing them and then I would somehow still lose. I would yell at the judge about how if your RP makes no sense in the context of the situation and in general, that it shouldn't even count... I don't really know how I got all the way to this subject but.... yeah.... that's what I just typed... On a completely unrelated note I just watched the documentary "The 11th Day" ... AMAZING story. yeeeeeah... well most of those short rps vs long rps (That has the longer rp overcoming the short) didn't have that edge over the longer rp. Nothing new, nothing creative, it was just story, rant, finished. May have done some good old fashion beat down when it came to one of the portions required for a GREAT rant but overall to beat a long one you need to put something in there far more... powerful. Emotions. Not your character's emotions but you got to draw out your readers emotion. Kind of like how pence did with the whole "best friend/trainer dying of a heart attack" bit. Many of us can relate to that. He played it well. Jesse Nunez's marriage rp. You can get that emotion and feeling for that kind of special time because people relate to it. It was weird when we both posted the same rp's in APW and EWC because both of us loosed in different feds. lol it was weird. Requirements to win Story Rant Added bonuses Emotion>longer story |
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Post by Streets Wilson on Jul 8, 2009 1:08:18 GMT -4
i said GENERALLY. Read it properly. People around here are always quick with a response but not necessarily a good one. Just because you are able to name one occasion where it didn't happen that way doesn't make me wrong... I could name hundreds where the better rp didn't win over the longer one. Not particularly in this federation cause its seems to be exactly how it is advertised here but as I said... in GENERAL. To be honest usually after about a 10-15 page read it starts to get tedious and stupid... and sometimes much earlier than that. I have problems with confidence in my own RP's the most, I scrap them and then think "wait, that was good" and do the same exact thing over again, than I think that its stupid again and do something completely different. They would probably be a lot better if I wasn't so self conscious about the way their coming off. I used to have problems in a different fed with the owner because I was so damn sure I had won and there was no chance the other guy won but sure enough come results time the other guy would win. I would get pissed because I had serious problems with the way they judged the results. The opponent would do his little "rant" and say shit that made absolutely no sense with typos, inconstancy's and just plain falsehoods, I would respond by discrediting every single thing they said and just plain embarrassing them and then I would somehow still lose. I would yell at the judge about how if your RP makes no sense in the context of the situation and in general, that it shouldn't even count... I don't really know how I got all the way to this subject but.... yeah.... that's what I just typed... On a completely unrelated note I just watched the documentary "The 11th Day" ... AMAZING story. yeeeeeah... well most of those short rps vs long rps (That has the longer rp overcoming the short) didn't have that edge over the longer rp. Nothing new, nothing creative, it was just story, rant, finished. May have done some good old fashion beat down when it came to one of the portions required for a GREAT rant but overall to beat a long one you need to put something in there far more... powerful. Emotions. Not your character's emotions but you got to draw out your readers emotion. Kind of like how pence did with the whole "best friend/trainer dying of a heart attack" bit. Many of us can relate to that. He played it well. Jesse Nunez's marriage rp. You can get that emotion and feeling for that kind of special time because people relate to it. It was weird when we both posted the same rp's in APW and EWC because both of us loosed in different feds. lol it was weird. Requirements to win Story Rant Added bonuses Emotion>longer story I'm not debating that, what I am debating is that people ALWAYS stay true to quality over quantity, my original point was to ask how much time it takes people to make RP's that long, I was never actually debating the quality over quantity issue (or meaning to). |
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Post by BDC on Jul 8, 2009 8:53:25 GMT -4
An "average" length rp (which was about 8 pages in Word) used to take me between 3 and 5 hours, depending on interuptions.
I did on one occasion though spend 9 hours straight writing an rp. I hadn't intended to, I just got lost in the story and didn't realise how much time had gone.
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Post by Nick Watson on Jul 8, 2009 10:58:26 GMT -4
It has happened to me alot too BDC. Take my first rant for example, I started writing it three days ago and did write it all day long, looking back now I remember looking at the clock at 12:00 and still not liking the turn out of the rant, so I took about another two hours the morning of release to make it come out perfectly, over all I think each of my rps is a good read.
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Post by Joey Orsome on Jul 8, 2009 20:41:12 GMT -4
I can remember in my prime I would write 10 pages in word of just the story, not realise it and by the time I had finished my "trash talk" I was like several thousand characters over. So I had to cut the story into two and use it in another RP.
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