[quote=@RabidAnubis]
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In regards to your discussion on Advanced RPing -
I come to and fro from the guild every once in a while.  As I've grown up (I joined back in 2009, or maybe earlier) my writing has improved considerably (Partially due to maturity, partially due to AP English).  I used to struggle at writing at a casual level, but now writing as a character I can pull off advanced.

I think the issues are really as follows-

1. No one pays attention to the 18+ rules.  I sure as hell didn't.  Lots of people here are probably the good writer in their friend group, and get 100s on every English assignment.  I never was.  But there is simply no way a fourteen year old no matter how talented can write at what was considered the advanced level.  At that age the chances you've been in an actually serious relationship are small, you feel like your the only one whos experiencing what's going on in your life, and you are most likely confused.  It is really hard to roleplay well when you have NO life experience.  While logically many fourteen year olds know this, they don't really believe or understand it.  In some ways, the snobiness of the old guild kept this out.

2. Being able to roleplay at an advanced level does not mean you can GM at an advanced level.  I've realized recently I can't, and I probably should train my GM abilities at a lower level where quick posting will let me get a lot of experience.

3. A lack of patience.  Partially tied into point 1.  Rps where people post about once a week have great quality.  It gives people plenty of time for others to think about a response, write that response, and then sleep on it.  When you come back the next day chances are you will fix the post up considerably and the quality will be much higher as a result.  I really think this is the biggest difference between high-cas and advanced as categories.  Length isn't what makes advanced, and you should have character development by high casual.  What makes a post advanced is being willing to come back the next day an improve the quality.[/hider][/quote]
1. I don't really ask for the age of my partners because personally I don't care much, but I will get concerned if a [i]young adult[/i] thinks s/he is mature enough to pull off 18+ stuffs with me. Even if s/he only just turned 18, I'm still not keen to go down that gutter with someone who barely has any experience to do them properly.

2. That's so true for me too - I can roleplay at Advanced level, but I'm a shitty GM. Not that it really matters since I'm a nobody in group RPs. I'm pretty content with sticking to 1x1 for now.

3. I'm the type who would constantly revisit my old posts and wrestle out any mistakes - no matter how minor they are [s]because I'm just a hopeless perfectionist[/s]. I tend to reread previous posts to remind myself to keep up with consistency as I work on my next post.