I won't "quit" the forum, but I might drift away

[Creative]

I've been more active with RPing as of late. :^)

[Bannanachair]

I want to RP, but this place is never active enough. Fantasy RP spent a year and a half in its "me setting up the various storylines" phase. Frankly, I'm starting to think that the stories I want to tell are too big to realistically be in an RP. I don't know, I'll think on it for a few days and try to let you guys know.

[Creative]

I ended up just migrating to a One Piece RP forum a year or so ago when I re-established an interest in RPing.
Before that I was mostly 'retired', that would explain my own inactivity.

[Duck14]

My current inactivity (less than normal) is mainly just holidays.

Tim I appreciated RPing on Fantasy RP but perhaps you’re right. The fact that stories were dependent on others doesn’t work amazingly on an inactive forum. For instance Arthur’s story was on hold because we were waiting on Tikobe, yet Tikobe didn’t come back so the whole RP shutdown instead.

[Bannanachair]

Yeah, I've decided to just try to write a book instead of RPing. It's a remarkably different process in some ways and yet startlingly similar in ways that I expected to be different. That said, I'm still in the outlining phase, so things could easily change. (And I'm doing this differently to the times that I've written shorter stories and differently to times in the past that I've tried and failed to write any prose of decent length, so maybe it's just how I'm doing it now).

Oh, or an ISRP could work, but... Wait, am I the only one who forgot what ISRP even stands for? Wouldn't something like "1PRP" or "2PRP" be a much more intuitive acronym that more easily captures the meaning? I've been doing this for eight goddamn years by now; I feel like a charlatan. Anyway, an ISRP could work, but once again my ideas are too big for that format: I like running stories that are dependent upon more than one protagonist, where different people working together or separately often in many different locations are what motivates the story, and that's not something that's easy to do as an ISRP.

I dunno, lots of things to think about. It also feels weird being able to go easily over a week without logging into Bannanachair without feeling like anything is missing moreso than the RPs themselves. What was at one stage the most important aspect of my life is now nothing more than memories.

[Duck14]

Jan 12, 2020 6:15:24 GMT -4 Bannanachair said:

Yeah, I've decided to just try to write a book instead of RPing. It's a remarkably different process in some ways and yet startlingly similar in ways that I expected to be different. That said, I'm still in the outlining phase, so things could easily change. (And I'm doing this differently to the times that I've written shorter stories and differently to times in the past that I've tried and failed to write any prose of decent length, so maybe it's just how I'm doing it now).

Oh, or an ISRP could work, but... Wait, am I the only one who forgot what ISRP even stands for? Wouldn't something like "1PRP" or "2PRP" be a much more intuitive acronym that more easily captures the meaning? I've been doing this for eight goddamn years by now; I feel like a charlatan. Anyway, an ISRP could work, but once again my ideas are too big for that format: I like running stories that are dependent upon more than one protagonist, where different people working together or separately often in many different locations are what motivates the story, and that's not something that's easy to do as an ISRP.

I dunno, lots of things to think about. It also feels weird being able to go easily over a week without logging into Bannanachair without feeling like anything is missing moreso than the RPs themselves. What was at one stage the most important aspect of my life is now nothing more than memories.

That’s how things get sometimes.

Good luck on the writing. Writing something of that length is certainly different to RPing despite the similarities, it’s just being all the characters at once. How long are you aiming for it to be? They certainly take some time.

[passion fruit]

the end of an era

[Bannanachair]

Jan 15, 2020 2:14:31 GMT -4 Duck14 said:

Jan 12, 2020 6:15:24 GMT -4 Bannanachair said:

Yeah, I've decided to just try to write a book instead of RPing. It's a remarkably different process in some ways and yet startlingly similar in ways that I expected to be different. That said, I'm still in the outlining phase, so things could easily change. (And I'm doing this differently to the times that I've written shorter stories and differently to times in the past that I've tried and failed to write any prose of decent length, so maybe it's just how I'm doing it now).

Oh, or an ISRP could work, but... Wait, am I the only one who forgot what ISRP even stands for? Wouldn't something like "1PRP" or "2PRP" be a much more intuitive acronym that more easily captures the meaning? I've been doing this for eight goddamn years by now; I feel like a charlatan. Anyway, an ISRP could work, but once again my ideas are too big for that format: I like running stories that are dependent upon more than one protagonist, where different people working together or separately often in many different locations are what motivates the story, and that's not something that's easy to do as an ISRP.

I dunno, lots of things to think about. It also feels weird being able to go easily over a week without logging into Bannanachair without feeling like anything is missing moreso than the RPs themselves. What was at one stage the most important aspect of my life is now nothing more than memories.

That’s how things get sometimes.

Good luck on the writing. Writing something of that length is certainly different to RPing despite the similarities, it’s just being all the characters at once. How long are you aiming for it to be? They certainly take some time.

I'm aiming for 80k-120k words per book for a trilogy right now, but college is so fucking intense that I've done almost nothing on this for months.