Faerie Childe
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Hi! I've been roleplaying for years, but always real-time (sometimes in-person, sometimes by text) and it seems like this site is designed for asynchronous play, usually with longer posts (anywhere from a few sentences to novellas depending on preference). I'm very intrigued, but struggling to understand how you manage this, especially in 1x1 RPs.
For instance, I assume it's poor form to write responses from the other player's character(s). So, how do you handle dialogue? Especially in a RP where the standard is multi-paragraph responses? Do you push to include 3+ paragraphs of character description and internal monologue between each line? Or do dialogue-heavy sections become more truncated, with each message shortening to 1-2 paragraphs and responses coming more frequently?
I'm also wondering about the pacing of doubling. Is there etiquette for how the two RPs are balanced? Do you always post one message for each RP, back-to-back? Or do you discuss OOC when a good stopping point is within one RP, making it a good time to switch to the other for a while?
These questions probably have painful obvious answers, but I'm a total newcomer to this style of role-play, and I'm still finding my footing. Any advice or explanation would be greatly appreciated!
For instance, I assume it's poor form to write responses from the other player's character(s). So, how do you handle dialogue? Especially in a RP where the standard is multi-paragraph responses? Do you push to include 3+ paragraphs of character description and internal monologue between each line? Or do dialogue-heavy sections become more truncated, with each message shortening to 1-2 paragraphs and responses coming more frequently?
I'm also wondering about the pacing of doubling. Is there etiquette for how the two RPs are balanced? Do you always post one message for each RP, back-to-back? Or do you discuss OOC when a good stopping point is within one RP, making it a good time to switch to the other for a while?
These questions probably have painful obvious answers, but I'm a total newcomer to this style of role-play, and I'm still finding my footing. Any advice or explanation would be greatly appreciated!
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