If it works for you, then it works! Sadly, it might not work for the others, hence again, you should ask xD
Hope things work out in the end~
You know I've often been on the fence with this one. However, with some growing, I'm going to say this. If one liners work for you and the writers you surround yourself with then that's fine. There are some famous writers out there that strongly believe short and to the point is best. A lot of writers believe this and teachers too. As an example I think it was Hemingway that won a bet between his friends that he could write an entire story in six words. ""For Sale, Baby Shoes, Never Worn" A lot of reporters would tell you that condensing is the greatest thing for a story. It's just chalked up to preference and the niche of people you have.
I think the whole thing came up as a joke during a party actually. It can be confusing without context or sharp staccato sentencing. I mean I guess knowing the theme they gave him before hand helps.
I know exactly how you feel. Although I'm a quite experienced roleplayer, I hate doing overly literate roleplays, so I stick to the short things. Just recently, I got denied from 2 roleplays, due to my short responses, and I'm a little hurt about it. I don't understand why we're required to right out our whole life story in every reply. I don't have the time to write that whole thing out, nor can I harbor so much creativity in one reply. I can start off strong, but all it will do is die down.
Yeah exactly. I used to like, 5 paragraphs in the starter for my rp’s and they were ok.. but then after that I felt stuck because I couldn’t think of the right words and stuff and the other person had written like 8000 paragraphs and I feel dumb when I reply with a short paragraph.
It sucks, doesn't it? There's so much writing you can do before things get tiring. Besides, shorter responses make longer-lasting rps.
Yeah. And like, how are you supposed to make it long when there is dialogue or interaction between characters? Do you just ramble on about something completely unrelated to the story line? And you can’t just control the other person’s character so?
YES. Like for example, short yes or no questions. They expect too much out of us.
They expect us to say. “Shrek pauses for a minute and ponders the very interesting question that donkey had asked. Should he divorce fiona? Or keep their affairs going. A sweat formed on Shreks thick, black eyebrows which were flaked with dandruff. He thought about his times with fiona, and his times with Donkey. He smiles finally. “Well..”he paused. “No one has a better ass than you, donkey..” Donkey smiled and flung his grey hooves around Shreks thick, green , meaty neck. “Oh Shrek! You know how to make a donkey feel special!” They kissed.” But like, longer than that. See I can’t even give an example.
LMAO, well, it fucking works. I can be descriptive like that, but I'm sure as hell not doing 9 paragraphs for just one simple conversation.
