Darth Cognus

Can You Call Yourself an Advanced Writer if You Only Write Female Characters? -Closed-

Eh, we're just spitballing possibilities at this point. I couldn't resist, myself. It's not the way of forum threads to just end when the OP is satisfied...

Can You Call Yourself an Advanced Writer if You Only Write Female Characters? -Closed-

Pour your all into a single personality that's convincing and different from your own, and I'd say you're pretty advanced even if you play nothing else. Particularly if the split is distinct...

What ideas have you backed off from, recently or otherwise?

I've shied from starting/joining anything in general from the highly pessimistic take that anything I'd start would probably just die off, and it's tiring to put my mind into something that's not gonna continue if the thing it was made for doesn't. Either I'm gonna put heart into it and others will leave, or I do the same but I realize it's not something I'd stick to for a longer period. Kinda depressing when the going mindset is 'if they don't kill it I probably will'. The idea of doing stuff is fun, but the doing stuff is an exhausting prospect.

My answer to part of above has been 'start something you can remix into original content', but I haven't had enough thoughts in general that I think would actually work for the Guild. I have random stuff like thoughts of a Battletech based roleplay or something to revive Arena, but again. All stuff that takes energy to pull off for returns I'm not sure are there.

Mainly I'm here out of nostalgia, and remembering why I vanished. Add tangents of real life, very fickle muse and other hobbies and the result is not much at all happening. Sorry if I took it a little too dark.

Announcement.

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Why strictly focus on cutting out the force-using? Just asking out of pure curiosity.

@Adverb

So the trick with this and the subsequent answer is the potential of the setting. A western that does a good deal of worldbuilding might get samey to people when literally everyone you meet is also a gunslinger. There was a fairly successful star wars game that got on well with a somewhat small, but devoted audience that explored everyone except Jedi/force users. I often hear the reason it failed is because of the update that added force users, resulting in everyone wanting to be that guy... resulting in that getting old rather quickly and the immersion of the game falling apart.

I don't strictly fall in this camp, but the trick is ending up with a very large scope project where everyone is special, and then nobody is special. The reverse, where nobody is special and everybody is unique can be a strong appeal when the setting has enough background for most people to just get started. You might lose the people who just want to play force users, but there have been examples where being more humble in a setting of special can be quite successful.

Friendships

Not necessarily family, but a few good friends.

Boy X Boy Roleplay...But I'm a Girl

With great seriousness comes great pomp and little results.

But seriously, nothing odd about it, but you may find it harder to get a bite for basic interest (the girl doing male thing is no problem). Via a few discord circuits I know someone who's been into MxM and kinks related to male submissives who basically never gets anything.

IRL you vs Internet you!

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That I can understand.

This said, I honestly think that issues of any sort aren't a predicate for this. I mean, I don't have issues and yet frankly I find it much easier to be social and honest online than in real life simply because in real life the vast majority of people are simply unlikable. And in real life there is zero you can do about that where as online you can just detect those people and ghost them if they start to get annoying and find new people that aren't.

Plus there is the fact that online we all tend to congregate in groups with shared interests and personality types to a large extent. And it's just easier to like and get along with other people who share your interests and hobbies even if they are otherwise unlikable individuals because you have something in common.

@PPQ Purple

All quite true. Individual folks have their respective reasons, issues for me is one of them but is not for many others. Many others are also far better proper writers than I've ever managed, so we all have our spectrum.