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[Nightmarewolf13]

Okay, uh. I need advice for someone I've rp for years now, we're kinda falling out with plots, ideas and losing motivation.

Here's a short version:
What do you if you and your rp partner kinda have a fall out? Like your plots you try and do together lately don't do anywhere/die, or one of you is lacking motivation because you both struggle to create a *twist* or something to keep the story interesting?

Long Version: (I'm sorry for grammatical mistakes).
Me and my rp buddy, have been rping lately for about a couple months after taking a break cause life happened, stuff got in the way. Even a bit before that, we were struggling to create plots but we still managed to get through and create twist and build off ideas. Now and lately it seems like we're both at slumps cause for the last rp I asked an AI to help make a twist and it worked but I lost motivation to it. Even before hand my buddies responses were short and she's a writer. She often writes a lot in her response and lot of details, I can write a lot as well but not often much as her. Mostly we rp fantasy or supernatural, we've done modern stuff like secret agents (that works very well) or superheroes without actual powers like batman/Ironman (worked but then died. (Very old rp's/our beginning of rp's)
See we love to do drama, angest but we always build it up to least a certain point if the characters know or don't know each other. Often they don't so we don't expect anything from the OC'S and act like everything is a surprise (it's just easier for us). However, my rp buddy hates romance plots, so we always go to the drama and throw in slice of life but we create drama on purpose cause slice of live, I never know truly what to do and I feel like my partner feels the same way. (Example: Daycare rp with the twist of someone being a fake lover, basically two co-workers who worked at a daycare facility. One got into trouble with friends needed to prove he has a gf, so he asked his female co-worker who has a boyfriend. The female characters agreed to help because it would been bad trouble. We threw a twist that the bf was abusive and crazy, that he burned down the guy's house..then after that it kinda died since we didn't know what else to do.)
We have this weird thing in our RP's that our OC'S always end up in the hospital then from there we kinda end it cause mostly they move on in they're lives. We both try to communicate with each other for plot twist, do something we agree on and say something if we might be a ghost for a bit. So communication isn't really our issue.
Sorry for the rambling, and confusing.
Basically I feel like we're both stuck and we look at examples of plots and kinda like how can this work- and don't got an idea.


Someone else suggested we flip things up and change things entirely/do new stuff but I'm a little unsure how to go about that but might have ideas.

 

[nerdy tangents]

So I find taking a break and looking for inspiration in other media helps if I have writers block.

So I will take a break, get caught up on my TV shows. Maybe play some Sims, etc.

A lot of times the problem is me putting too much stress on myself to make an idea interesting which can be fixed by taking a step back and not pressuring myself so much.

 

[BuggaBoo]

What do you if you and your rp partner kinda have a fall out? Like your plots you try and do together lately don't do anywhere/die, or one of you is lacking motivation because you both struggle to create a *twist* or something to keep the story interesting?

Hi!!

What we did was we set an ending. Like not setting the amount of time or posts to the end but set an expectation or like a goal to aim for.

K so like I think when you with 1x1 partners for a long time some can just keep posting without any end in sight. But like for others i found part of the plotting worked best.with a set ending. This way you focus more and do what I call 'framing'; basically constraining the RP so it's more tightly focussed and less random. Kinda like a short story. When you have like a set ending you both work towards and when you in sync the twists come more like organically?

Also with a set ending you can like always both opt out and timeskip to the end if or when you both feel the RP just not it.

Hope this helps!

 

[Nightmarewolf13]

Thank you! These both do help greatly.

 

[Bacon is fluffy]

What do you if you and your rp partner kinda have a fall out? Like your plots you try and do together lately don't do anywhere/die, or one of you is lacking motivation because you both struggle to create a *twist* or something to keep the story interesting?

To be honest, sometimes I bite off more than i can chew and ended up needing to take a break. For me a proper is 8 hours sleep and a full on disengaging from role-playing for a day or two.

After that my cloudy mind and aching head return to normal and suddenly writing a reply or brainstorming a plot point becomes easy.

But in regards to the difficulty coming up with plot twists and other things, start by making your foundation as strong as possible.

Sometimes this is hard with a new partner, but if this is an old friend, he or she should be more than willing yo hash everything out. Spend time writing multiple story ideas. Think about the goals you both have before writing a single word. World building can be a fleeting idea or a life long pursuit.

So you and your friend owe it to yourselves to spend some time planning and talking about what you both want.