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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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passion
2012-11-04 06:19 pm UTC (link)

generally when people want first-person entry examples, they're looking for examples that show a strong character voice. one or two sentences won't cut it for entry examples because how are the mods supposed to tell if it's you talking or your character talking, you know? i have journal entries that i've written that have got me into games on ~pbads and ~rps in the past so i can pm you some specific examples if you like.

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	nympholepsy 2012-11-04 06:35 pm UTC (link)
	that would be super helpful, thank you! yeah, i figured they'd need to be kinda lengthy, i just don't want to write a novel and have them be like "ugh dis wordy bitch" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	passion 2012-11-04 06:42 pm UTC (link)
	i ended up, er, choosing all my longerish examples, so i put them in a custom for you http://passion.insanejournal.com/2634.html they're all for celeb but they've gotten me into pbads games! if you want to keep talking or you have questions or something just let me know xo (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nympholepsy 2012-11-05 11:15 am UTC (link)
	thank you so much! this helped a lot (Reply to this) (Parent)

	lovedyoumore 2012-11-13 04:30 am UTC (link)
	would you mind sharing them with me, as well? i finally feel comfortable with a character to apply at the community level (it's been a year or two since my last). thanks so much in advance! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	passion 2012-11-17 12:23 am UTC (link)
	you should have access to the post now! (Reply to this) (Parent)

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