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Question What are you not good at writing?

for me it’s:

1. Women. Can never write and could never write women. Don’t know how other guys do it just can’t get into the headspace for the female perspective.

2. Jedi anymore. I don’t feel like my Jedi characters are ever any different or even remotely good and I always feel self conscious writing them.

What’re you bad at writing?

Oh yeah and

3. Anything mystical in Star Wars. The mysticism, like rituals and shit I just can’t write well or get into. When the word “spell” or “ritual” gets thrown into something related to Star Wars it’s like someone turned on the orb of confusion for me
 
  • Multiple characters at once - I really get deep into the headspace and development of the characters I write and I spend a lot of time crafting arcs and details, sometimes months (i’ve only written two long term characters here over 10 years) so its hard for me to jump from one to the next. I’ve tried. Not my thing.
  • Anything surface level and/or slice of life - I like my stories grounded, with plenty of plot development, conflict, and tons of exposition.
  • Oh, & Sith.
 
1) everything.
2) Force powers. I did not read a ton of “out there” legends and always considered video games as video games. During the majority of my learning to write SW, all we had was the OT and PT and a few novels. In fact, I started after TPM, and we all had to adapt when AOTC (we had so many new Mando characters) and ROTS were released. All my my FUs were pretty limited to lightsabers, telekinesis, Force push/pull, and maybe some lightening at a dark side master level (but very rarely). The main place I wrote was also pretty limited to canon powers.
3) Fleeting/military. Not for me. I love reading it from the good writers, but I don’t have the knowledge or time to write it myself.
 
  1. Darksiders / sith — I need to be in the frame of mind with my music playlist to write them. I typically leave for example my soah character when I have a solid block of time to get into her headspace. Thats why having someone to bounce off of is super important for me for these types of chars so I can flesh them out, get personality, and how they interact. It’s the only way I can successfully get invested.
  2. Along the same vein I can’t seem to write really dark Sith. Anyone who is super prone to doing gratuitous violence or super malicious. I work best as a culty type of darksider who has visions that torture her and she needs to figure out what the goddess means Darth Isolda Darth Isolda or the tiny tank who works well self sacrificing herself for the cause Darth Nephthys Darth Nephthys . I can do assassin or shadow types, or more self serving darksiders that are more lawfully evil or pragmatic ends justify the means. But def not dark dark like others can channel.
  3. New chars. I can’t get invested in them well without getting one or two dedicated writers to help me hook the new char and flesh them out. I really need that start up activity and excitement to plot and rp.
  4. PvP. I struggle with this which is why I don’t have a blade focused bladesman char with my force users. They tend to be support buff chars or specialists for force users. I can do NFU just fine tho!
 
Characters without some kind of trauma.
Same though.

1. PvP/PvE battles. It's been a weak spot for a while but I worry that my PvE is unrealistic or boring and it's been a long time since I've written a fight against someone. So rather than annoy people with my incompetence, I don't do PvP.
2. Dark Siders/Sith. It takes a lot of effort to get into the mindset: effort I need to use elsewhere in real life.
 
I cannot do perfectly "good" characters. Like.. every single lightsided character I have had winds up becoming "evil" or morally grey at least. I just can't stick with it.

I don't feel like I'm any good at blow for blow duels anymore. Partly because I'm out of practice and partly because i find it tedious, i much prefer describing the overall arc of the fight instesd of this specific blade movement and footwork.

One single character! I try to limit myself but i can't stick to one character, i need variety in my life lol
 
1. The Good Guy - What I mean by this is, for years I didn't think I could write Jedi turned out I could. They just had to be a little messed up and dealing with darkness inside them. Bitter at the world or whatever. I just can't write the straight up good guy or old school Jedi type because it just bores me as a concept. They all have to be trying to work through some trauma for them to work for me and can be jerks because of it.

2. Romance - I suck at it irl and I suck at in writing.....I try and people say I am okay but I always feel like I am saying the same stuff or doing the same stuff over and over again when I try to write it and it doesn't come naturally.

3. Fleeting - I still write it though I am just not good at it. Allot of it is there is a lot to keep track of and I think personally it lacks story telling element pvp has it lacks closeness personal feel that combat on the battle field does. I think military ground combat is a middle ground between pvp and fleeting but still a lot to keep track of and my ADD doesn't like that much.

4. True Loyalist Character - My characters tend to be loyal to characters and people not factions/orders, ideals (Except their own) , or Codes (Except their own). My characters for the most part are all rebels and anarchist in there own little ways.
 
Hmmm.

Mando's — I have tried a few different times to write them, and I just can't get invested. Not sure why, because I've written other characters with warrior-based cultures and loved and became very invested in them. Part of it is probably getting put off by how opinionated the writers tend to be about what is/isn't a proper mandalorian.

Sith — I don't have it in me to get into that twisted mindset, at least not for a prolonged period. I could never have a main character that is Sith. But I think this goes for darker characters in general. I like to get deep into a characters mindset, and that's just not a head space I want to occupy for long. If I had a character that was Sith, it'd probably come about as the plan of a fall of some sort, with either a redemption arc in mind, or their end.

Male characters — Less that I can't write them, and more that they all turn into Dean Winchesters. I tried to change this with my character Anders and was semi-successful, though I didn't end up writing him long enough to see where it would go.

Overpowered Force Users — I'm an Andor lover. I like Force powers that are a bit more grounded in reality, I like my characters to struggle, and for things to not come easily to them. I want story, not to be the biggest and baddest. Sometimes I feel like it's hard to avoid on Chaos, because there are so many over powered characters that you have to dive into more extreme Force abilities, or be really good about writing around them and finding creative solutions, just to be on par with what others are writing, specifically in PVP encounters. But, trying to write that, I zone out and get uninterested really quickly.

Cutesy Slice of Life — Unless it serves a specific purpose to further important development, or it's being used as a juxtaposition, I have a hard time writing things like... Shopping threads, beach threads, coffee runs with other characters, etc. I have tried and I always end up dropping them. I think because I can go do these things in real life if I wanted to, so when I write, I want to write about the fantastical and things that are out of the ordinary.

PVP with no story — Treating writing like a game to win, rather than a story to tell, just doesn't interest me. I can't write characters who only show up to war post and never go any deeper into their psyche or who they are. I enjoy figuring out what makes a character tick, what drives them to fight in the first place, why that is important to them, and getting into all the particulars.
 
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2. Romance - I suck at it irl and I suck at in writing.....I try and people say I am okay but I always feel like I am saying the same stuff or doing the same stuff over and over again when I try to write it and it doesn't come naturally.

I don’t even try. I am not good at it and do not enjoy it. I know all of this is fiction and just for fun, but since I am married with kids but keep this part of my life mostly shielded, it would also feel a little dirty. I say that not to judge or disparage anyone who does engage in romantic relationships with their characters. There is absolutely a place for it here, and I do not mind one bit how others conduct that part of their roleplaying experience. It’s just not for me.

Cutesy Slice of Life — Unless it serves a specific purpose to further important development, or it's being used as a juxtaposition, I have a hard time writing things like... Shopping threads, beach threads, coffee runs with other characters, etc. I have tried and I always end up dropping them. I think because I can go do these things in real life if I wanted to, so when I write, I want to write about the fantastical and things that are out of the ordinary.

Same. I am on Chaos to write out my action fantasies. Basically a 1980s action hero in a Star Wars setting. If I want to go out for coffee or drinks, I’ll just go do that in real life. Maybe I’ll use a bar meet as a setup for a plot, but then we’re off to the races blowing stuff up again. The writer behind Pal Veda is all about grabbing a beer and hanging out with friends, watching sports, going to shoot at targets, practicing jiu jitsu, etc. The character Pal Veda does all of that off screen. On screen, he’s doing the things this writer can’t do — shooting bad guys, collecting bounties, searching for lost artifacts, and flying a heavily modified YT-2400 through blockades or enemy fire.

Again, no judgment against the people who do enjoy those kinds of threads, just not for me.
 

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  • - long-winded descriptions or in the words of the great Steinbeck — hooptedoodle (this might not be so bad actually to be bad at hooptedoodle)​
  • - sometimes i struggle with omitting things, but I’ve been working on it​
  • - power fantasy characters: I find no joy in writing anything that has no flaws and does not go through any try/fail sequences​
  • - noble/court rp: never really tried it, but I feel I don’t have enough knowledge to do it justice and will most likely read hollow. Maybe i should read more THR threads.​
  • - everything cause I think you should always strive to get better ​
 

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