Thread: About Narrative Styles and Metagaming

Godmodding I am okay with a decent amount of Godmodding. If I can't trust a partner to guide my character to some extent, I am probably not a good match with them, writing wise. I tell all my partners that I prefer moving the story forward to having perfect control over over my character. Hell, I've given a few partners permission to write dialogue for my character, when appropriate. I've also done the thing Fruit mentioned, about pming dialogue to my partner a head of time, so we could work out how a conversation will go before the post is written. I like to plot, and have a goal in mind to work towards in rp. This eliminates some of the godmodding stress, because if my partner and I agree on the direction we are going, it empowers me to lead things that way. So we usually know ahead of time the outcome of combat, and take turns striving towards that goal. Metagaming I try to stay away from metagaming, and will even have my character reach erroneous conclusions at times, given her understanding of a situation. I will go to great length to justify knowledge my character has, if they aren't supposed to have it. Including writing a character to be basically Sherlock Holmes in her deductive prowess. I will admit to having less patience for metagaming over godmodding. Amusingly, as part of a couple of my rps, I have dealt with situation of a character having multiple names, or disguising her identity, so that my partner's character only knows her by assumed name. Later, it ended up switching off, with him referring to her by her real name in my partners post, while my posts referred to her in the persona she had become. Writing style Stylistically, I guess I am narrative writer? Not entirely sure I understand the differences. I tend to control more than just my own character when writing, and even on occasion write the thoughts and feelings for multiple characters in a scene. I have been accused of being more of a writer than an RPer, which I took to be a compliment. I definitely consider the bigger picture when writing, like character development, plot arcs, theme and plot devices, and I work well with others who consider these as well. But I think I am also immersive. I get deep into a character's mindset and really explore their thought and feelings and thought process. Hell, I spent a weekend sobbing my eyes out because one of my favorite couples broke up in rp, because I felt her pain so strongly. Consider the following two sentences He had a twelve inch cock. Click to expand... When she brushed against him, she could feel his thick organ throb against her thigh. Click to expand... The first is boring. It is straight up telling the information, in a rather vulgar way. It adds rather little to the scene. The second tells much more information, in a more interesting way. While we don't have exact measurements, we have a general idea -large- in the reader's mind. This also shows the read the the male character is aroused by the female character, or is having a physical reaction, if not a mental one. It tells us the the characters are in close proximity and that they are rubbing up against another suggesting intimacy. This is establishing tension between them and developing their relationship. Showing is almost always more interesting than straight up telling.