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Post by jenson on May 20, 2016 16:53:18 GMT -6
Yeah, I want to hear how not to suck.
Ta.
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Post by The Polar Phantasm on May 20, 2016 17:00:38 GMT -6
Yeah, I want to hear how not to suck. Ta. Damn son, I thought you was good. Do I not know what good and bad are anymore? You're awesome, man. You're doing way better than me; I just almost convinced myself that I've had good and bad mixed up for God knows how long. -B.
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Post by Spencer Adams on May 20, 2016 17:01:27 GMT -6
You did a fine job. I'm gonna feel redundant if I keep telling everyone the same thing here haha. The biggest plus is that I feel you have above average description skills. Everything else will improve as this fed gets weeks under it's belt. Just keep doing you, man.
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Post by jenson on May 20, 2016 17:09:10 GMT -6
Yeah, I want to hear how not to suck. Ta. Damn son, I thought you was good. Do I not know what good and bad are anymore? You're awesome, man. You're doing way better than me; I just almost convinced myself that I've had good and bad mixed up for God knows how long. -B. Bud, I don't know if I'm good or not, I just plod away and hope for the best. For all I know I could be boring as shit and no one wants to read it.
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Post by The Polar Phantasm on May 20, 2016 17:09:53 GMT -6
Don't ever let anybody take your weird away from you, man. Especially not you. Weird kid pride. It's a thing.
-B.
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Post by jenson on May 20, 2016 17:12:07 GMT -6
Don't ever let anybody take your weird away from you, man. Especially not you. Weird kid pride. It's a thing. -B. I have no idea what you're saying right now! But I'm gonna keep on acting like I do until I figure it out! WOOOOOO!
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Post by The Polar Phantasm on May 20, 2016 17:15:29 GMT -6
Damn son, I thought you was good. Do I not know what good and bad are anymore? You're awesome, man. You're doing way better than me; I just almost convinced myself that I've had good and bad mixed up for God knows how long. -B. Bud, I don't know if I'm good or not, I just plod away and hope for the best. For all I know I could be boring as shit and no one wants to read it. You know what you sound like right now man? A writer. Much love, friend- I feel where you're coming from, totally. There's usually like, a day and a half or so out of every week where I'm positive that I'm an overrated hack and writing with y'all has been a tremendous waste of all of our time that I should apologize for and then probably cry like seven emo kids trapped in one body. For the record, I've only done that like... what, twice? -B.
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Post by jenson on May 20, 2016 17:20:19 GMT -6
Bud, I don't know if I'm good or not, I just plod away and hope for the best. For all I know I could be boring as shit and no one wants to read it. You know what you sound like right now man? A writer. Much love, friend- I feel where you're coming from, totally. There's usually like, a day and a half or so out of every week where I'm positive that I'm an overrated hack and writing with y'all has been a tremendous waste of all of our time that I should apologize for and then probably cry like seven emo kids trapped in one body. For the record, I've only done that like... what, twice? -B. Hah, I've never felt overrated, just always felt like "wtf am I doing man, should learn a craft instead."
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Aurora
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Post by Aurora on May 20, 2016 17:43:23 GMT -6
Your rp was amazing! Just like I said when I messaged you lol. I wish I had the amount of creativity that you showed. You had me actually laughing in parts, in the time it took me to read I was already invested in Andre, I wanted to know about his quest, I wanted to know more about what he plans to do. You had me hooked till the end and I loved it. It's been a while since I actually enjoyed reading a rp lol, I'm so used to the typical writing if you will, its refreshing to see something different. As I told you and Occulo both, I'm honestly rooting for my opponents more than myself this week. Have more faith in yourself! You're a kick ass writer, own it! I've never seen a character like yours before in an efed, its so different yet it works so well. I'm a huge fan of yours from this week alone, I see you accomplishing so much here. Just believe in yourself, you're good!
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Post by The Polar Phantasm on May 20, 2016 17:46:40 GMT -6
I say go for a happy medium. Instead of training in a craft, just get a craft beer and think of fun shit you could do in your next promo. Heck, if you're feeling low on ideas or inspiration or whatever, grab somebody you're friendly with and get em to brainstorm some shit with you. Even if they got nothing that day, sometimes just having a sounding board is worth its weight in gold. For real though, one writer to another; don't give up because you think you might suck. We all think we might suck* on some level at least some of the time, and most of us are wrong. Then we'd live in a world where the only writers left are self help gurus and the guy who wrote Left Behind. (* - except Jay Price. Jay Price no-sells common self-doubt.) -B.
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Post by SHADOWLOVE on May 20, 2016 20:50:02 GMT -6
I think everyone starts out hating what they've written at one time or the other. We are our own worst critics. Just keep on writing the way you do and you'll be fine.
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Post by "Mr. God" Benjamin Atreyu on May 26, 2016 19:54:25 GMT -6
Jenson, I seriously love the character, I have always thought the concept was fun, and last week you proved why. You brought a great sense of characterization which made for great cause and effect as far as his actions and motivations. The thought process to use Game of Thrones as an attack of sorts was a great bit (EVEN IF IT DID SPOIL SHIT FOR ME, YOU RAGING...ahem...). But yeah, you did a great job and I think if you don't worry so much about 'sucking' and just focus on doing what you think will bring out the character best (and I mean, like, what are some great directions you could take him, what are some scenarios you can put him in where his personality could create some great events) I think you will find that you're writing will stand that test we all have of "is this good enough". I think a real strength you have is letting action dictate progression and story telling. Instead of just taking through the story, you have your character act and then talk to relate to as such.
Keep up the awesome work, mang. Looking forward to more.
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Post by jenson on May 27, 2016 8:16:58 GMT -6
Cheers for the advice squires. I'll carry on how i am then! In fairness to you. It was 6 days after the episode and did have a GoT spoiler tag on it. Not my fault
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Post by "Mr. God" Benjamin Atreyu on May 27, 2016 9:24:42 GMT -6
Cheers for the advice squires. I'll carry on how i am then! In fairness to you. It was 6 days after the episode and did have a GoT spoiler tag on it. Not my fault I don't have HBO and I HAVE to judge your RP!!!! ...Besides the point >.>... Keep up the good work, haha.
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Post by jenson on May 27, 2016 10:10:29 GMT -6
Semantics! I was half thinking about putting a line in where he said it but the auto spooking filter just put a giant sheep noise over what he was saying and the camera panned to someone else. Thought better of it though
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