Loksfjoer is a Contest Moderator.
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15 days ago
Current Away from home between October 26th and November 10th. Contests will return when I'm back home!
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2 mos ago
Don't forget to vote in the writing contest! The link is in the sidebar <3
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2 mos ago
Back from vacation, taking my time to roll back into roleplays and contests.
2 mos ago
Vacation for a week, I'm off to Finland!
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4 mos ago
Note to self: reply to RPs
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Hello everyone. I'm Dutch, a mother of a 8-year old boy and I love both rp-ing and writing. Since May 2020 I'm one of the contests mods.

I started with writing Dutch stories in 2002, I was already 19 at that time. I joined a writing competition and that got me started. Soon I started to write down all the stories my over-active imagination came up with. I had my first forum rp experience in 2003 on a Dutch fantasy forum. While I continued to write, I stopped rp-ing when the particular rp and forum slowly died. In 2011 my love for rp's rekindled when I joined a site with a forum and I started to RP solely in English since that is the language of the site. This is also when I wrote my first story in English.

I've got a few 1x1 rp's going on this site and a couple more on another site. I've always been a fan of writing competitions and I joined a lot several of the ones that were hosted on this website. Now I get to host them myself and really enjoy that too.

When you come here to check if I'm online, know that even when I show as online I might not be able to respond to RP's. I open this site so that when I have time I can spend some time here, but I don't always end up with the time to do so.

If I haven't replied in a while, feel free to poke me. I don't ghost on purpose, sometimes I just forgetful and if I read your reply and accidentally closed the tab I might forget I was supposed to reply T_T

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It will certainly be a challenge, I don't usually write tragedies. It will be interesting to do so though. Let's see if I can come up with something good.
Depending on the time of the day, a status update might be forced off rather quickly, but it is better than no advertisment at all.
It's a good idea, I will start doing that too.

I just had an eye-opener and I want to talk about it.

There was a facebook discussion in a group I'm a member of, starting with a meme.
This was the text:

"I recently found out lots of people don't see a movie in their head when they read a book. They just see words on paper. How sad is that?
Aphantasia... a condition where one does not possess a functioning mind's eye and cannot visualize imagery"



In the discussion it soon became apparent there are people lots of people who do see a movie in their head when they read, but many don't.

I'm one of the people who can't really visualise what they read. So, I guess I might have this Aphantasia. Even my own characters, I know everything about them, but I get a vague image of them at best. I have a rich imagination though, I've written so many adventures, I just don't see it play out in my mind.

Now, I don't agree with the meme calling it 'sad'. I love reading and I never felt I missed anything by not seeing a movie play out. I'm just more focused on the characters, the clever dialogue, the emotions they have and what they do in the story. Maybe I can't see it well, but I still know what is going on.

This could explain why my own writing tends to focus more on the characters and the dialogues they have, and less on what goes on around them. I can't visualise it well and therefor I can't describe it well. If someone is in a forest, I will say they are in a forest and not spend a paragraph about how the forest looks, because honestly, I don't know myself.
A dear friend of mine once said she loved my concise way of writing, while I love her rich descriptions. But at the same time, long descriptions of scenes don't do anything for me, I can't do anything with it, so when things get too flowery I start to skip over the long descriptions.

So, how are your experiences and what are your thoughts about this subject?
There was a time, I think when the Twelve Labours contest was being held, when the contests were advertised in the column on the right side of the screen. I don't know how or through what channels that was done, but that is a place that gets the attention of people. I don't think many people scroll down all the way to the contest section.




Edit: since this was my first post in the thread I'm adding this: I've become contest moderator somewhere after this comment. If you have suggestions and want to post in this thread, please @ me so I won't miss it.

Thank you!

I can't wait to read what you did with the prompt.



My entry is done, I will read it over a final time tomorrow and then I can post it.
It wasn't easy, but it was fun to write it.
I don't have any plans for new year, so I'll definitely get something on paper. I know what I want to do, next comes the writing :)
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