Quin-
Interdimensional Social-Anthropologist
Hello, i'm very new here, and attempting to get back into RolePlay after many years.
I started out doing roleplay in live chatrooms years back, and became used to conversing and interacting in a very fast and intuitive way.
The result felt like a genuine dialogue, fight, or interaction between our characters.
But it was also more than a bit chaotic, with real plot developement, and good prose, being somewhat rare.
But I also made allot of very personal connections between our characters. We really felt like friends.
Later I got into forum roleplay, where longer form posts tended to be the norm.
The result felt much more like people each contributing a small chunk of a novel, with more thought put in, but the dialogue, and interactions between characters controlled by seperate authors felt like it suffered.
Somehow...it felt like several novellas being written by different authors, but set in the same time and place, rather than one novella being written by several authors each with their own character, and input on plot direction, if that makes any sense?
From a readers perspective, it seemed like a group of loosely related characters each pursuing their own thing, with limited interest in really interacting or working together, rather than a real group of people on a quest where they must rely on and thus interact with one another to create bonds.
How do you deal with this?
Do you write your post up until the point where you need to involve the other author, then open a private chat to form the dialogue/interaction together, then insert the result into your post?
Or, do you just write your post as best you can, writing the opening portion of any intended interaction, and wait until the other author hopefully responds, by weaving their response into their own post?
Or maybe you have a different method entirely?
I would love to hear any advise or input you have on this.
I started out doing roleplay in live chatrooms years back, and became used to conversing and interacting in a very fast and intuitive way.
The result felt like a genuine dialogue, fight, or interaction between our characters.
But it was also more than a bit chaotic, with real plot developement, and good prose, being somewhat rare.
But I also made allot of very personal connections between our characters. We really felt like friends.
Later I got into forum roleplay, where longer form posts tended to be the norm.
The result felt much more like people each contributing a small chunk of a novel, with more thought put in, but the dialogue, and interactions between characters controlled by seperate authors felt like it suffered.
Somehow...it felt like several novellas being written by different authors, but set in the same time and place, rather than one novella being written by several authors each with their own character, and input on plot direction, if that makes any sense?
From a readers perspective, it seemed like a group of loosely related characters each pursuing their own thing, with limited interest in really interacting or working together, rather than a real group of people on a quest where they must rely on and thus interact with one another to create bonds.
How do you deal with this?
Do you write your post up until the point where you need to involve the other author, then open a private chat to form the dialogue/interaction together, then insert the result into your post?
Or, do you just write your post as best you can, writing the opening portion of any intended interaction, and wait until the other author hopefully responds, by weaving their response into their own post?
Or maybe you have a different method entirely?
I would love to hear any advise or input you have on this.