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| Aisaki | Oct 7 2008, 08:08 PM Post #1 |
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Just a couple of points I decided to explain to Michael one day on how to make his posts a little more interesting and look as if more effort had been put into it, without much of it at all. Remember, of course, that these are just suggestions. Don't ever stop writing in your own fashion, lest you forget your own style of writing. 1. Use descriptive language, but don't go overboard. You don't want to end up with shit like, "His eyes were green." turning into "The two oculars that shone forth like orbs were a gentle emerald in colour, reflecting the light as a deep lake might." Rather, you want a mixture of these, easy to understand, but still describive. "His eyes were a gentle emerald in colour, almost like the light that reflected from a deep lake." 2. Instead of putting "he," try the character's actual name. It's there for a reason. For example, "He laughed once, bitterly, then he turned around and walked away." Could become, "Fred laughed once, bitterly, then he turned and walked away." It makes your post just a few characters longer, and a little more interesting to the eye. 3. Try not to use the same word twice in once sentence. It just gets repetitive and boring. Who wants to read a sentence that says sentence heaps of times in just the one sentence? Really though, things like, "He picked up the stick and twirled the stick, then put the stick down." just doesn't sound right. Instead, try something more like, "He picked up the stick and twirled it, then put it down." 4. Commas are your friend. Not full stops. They are not. Your. Friend. Unless you're at the end. Of a sentence. Nor. Are. Line. Breaks. 5. wE dOO NOt TYpe lyKe dIs LoL. This, young children, is how you get banned. 6. All so wee noe hao too speel. 7. Reply to EVERYTHING someone has said before you- and don't forget to make sure everything is relevant. For example, if someone says "She was silent for a second, then nodded," don't reply with something stupid like, "He listened to what she said." She didn't say anything, moron! But you wouldn't reply with something along the lines of "He watched her nod." That does nothing for the continuation of the roleplay either. Instead something that replied to both of the actions she performed might go something like this- "He waited, and when there was no reply forthcoming except for the nod she gave, he continued on." Now, isn't that so much better? |
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And she was there, sleeping with one eye clamped tighter than the other. She looked, when she shouldn’t have. | |
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