InsaneJournal

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a city of lost pets on the moon (nympholepsy) wrote in rp_tutorials,
@ 2012-11-04 00:44:00

so, i'm considering apping into a game that requires entry examples. it's one of those ~fancy~ games like you find all over ~rps and ~pbads, with the cute layouts and usernames and a thousand subcommunities, ones which appear to focus a lot on comment spam and ic journaling. i have a lot of examples of threading and aim scenes, but i have never played in a game before where characters kept an ic journal. i also don't journal like that myself - and i never really have - so i'm sort of... at a loss as to what to write. and all the games on ij are flocked, so i can't even peep the comm's flists and see what other people are writing for an idea of what i'm supposed to be doing.

suggestions? ideas? advice? what does a typical entry update look like in an ij game? how long should it be? what do people write about, how their day is going, philosophical thoughts, what? would anyone mind showing me their examples?

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kapital_a
2012-11-04 04:05 pm UTC (link)

I'd second this - journal entries can pretty much be whatever you want them to be. I'm playing in a game at the moment that has them. You can check out various character journals for R R I here through the character list. As you'll see, some characters use them a lot, some hardly use them at all. The game also allows characters to send each other messages (which are done as though they are journal posts, but just private to one other character).

A good example of lots of different journal styles within the game can be found by looking at my character Kyle's journal, which goes over quite a few entries. His most detailed entry and most 'standard journal entry' type would probably be this one here.

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	nympholepsy 2012-11-04 06:35 pm UTC (link)
	thank you for the examples! (Reply to this) (Parent)

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