SRP Support Thread

[monique_minx]

Welcome to the SRP Support Thread where those of us who are lacking creativity or feeling particularly inspirationally challenged can throw out a question in the hopes that someone else might inspire with a useful answer.

Example:

"My character could do this, this or this at this point in our thread but I don't know what direction would be best! Help!"

This is for those among us that have collectively hit the creativity wall and just can't muster what they need to go on. Sometimes we could all use a little help right?

Okay I am going to throw out some simple things that will make it easier for me to read YOUR threads. I'm an avid reader but even some of who I would consider great writers on this site seem to make these simple yet annoying mistakes repeatedly.

No. 1: YOUR and YOU'RE. Use them correctly. It's so annoying when people mix them up.

"I love your shoes." - Denoting a possession.

"You're going to love these shoes." - You're is just 'you are' abbreviated and it references a person.

No. 2: When your character is speaking, create another paragraph! When another character is speaking - whole new paragraph. EVERY TIME! No excuses for creating a block of speech that no one can muddy through and understand.

No. 3: The endless sentence. Just stop. Seriously. If your sentence continues for more than four lines and you can't full stop? Seek help.

No. 4: PROOFREAD YOUR WORK! Always! I can always find the time to reread and edit, you can too, no excuses.

No. 5: TO, TOO and TWO.

"Are you coming to the party?" - Slam dunk and very easy, rarely confused.

"This is just too easy!" - Always, always confused with 'to'. This is an impact word, use it correctly!

"There are two of us!" - Numbers. Should. Not. Be. This. Hard!

No. 6: THERE, THEIR and THEY'RE. This happens all too often, I am going to kill people.

"No, no, she's hiding over there!" - THERE is a place!

"Two people are at the club on their own." - THEIR is a possessive adjective.

"They're not coming back, are they?" - THEY'RE is just 'THEY ARE' abbreviated.

No. 7: WE'RE and WHERE.

"Where are they?" - An adverb. Seeking a place.

"We're not going!" - 'WE ARE' abbreviated and completely different.

Use this information wisely, stop making my eyes bleed and don't make this a waste of my time. Teacher Minx says class dismissed! ​

 

[Vail_Indigo]

w00t! *subscribe*

 

[yeishia]

Sounds like a great idea, could someone write mine for me pretty please?

 

[Ausus_girl13]

It's perfect Minxy.

Now will someone please help me with Rules in Blood and Attraction? I am not super great at the spy thing, this isn't my best thread by far, but I am hitting a wall.

Do I give up? Does Jolie dump the car, the clothes, and get cash? Help!!

 

[Veroe]

yeah subscribing to this

 

[monique_minx]

It's perfect Minxy.

Now will someone please help me with Rules in Blood and Attraction? I am not super great at the spy thing, this isn't my best thread by far, but I am hitting a wall.

Do I give up? Does Jolie dump the car, the clothes, and get cash? Help!!

Okay well if no one else jumps on this before I get back from catching some much needed Z's then I will have a read and help you out babe
My muse is behaving herself lately, I am good!

Thank you Vail and Veroe, I am humbled glad you both like the idea! I thought of it yesterday but didn't know how to write it out until Rayne's comment in another thread got me to put it to words

Yeishia, not sure if anyone will do that much helping but you're welcome to wait and see!

 

[Veroe]

To help you out, Ausus,

Do I give up?

No

Does Jolie dump the car, the clothes, and get cash?

Yeah, head for a safehouse with Nathan, Have Jolie, take time to assess the situation she's in, call her contacts for info or supplies and support, people in her profession always have contacts in the espionage or criminal underground the world over. Use this post to have Jolie try and figure out what to do next, if you can't figure that out either ask Spectre if he has any plot ideas you can help steer it towards, or just leave the next step for him to tackle in his next post.

 

[Last_Rider]

Agree with Veroe, the inherient distrust that runs rampant through a profession like that means you have avenue's to explore. Calling contacts or people close enough to actually trust makes sense while you and Spectre decide on the next plot point.

 

[Veroe]

Sounds like a great idea, could someone write mine for me pretty please?

Now that is an extremely daunting proposition, Yeishia. I for one could never write Jeannette in Vassal any where as well as you do.

 

[fuckmeat]

Ooh, what a great idea, I must exploit it at once.

subscribes

So...

I'm planning to write a highlander style thread with Veroe. This thread will feature two characters who have a LOT of backstory that spans many centuries and must be closely intertwined. He is going to be an evil immortal, who has at various intervals trained, enslaved and fought my character, a female immoral who I've been planning to make Asian in appearance. She doesn't have to be Asian but I wanted her to be a little exotic.

I'm trying to flesh out their backstory but my historical knowledge is woefully inadequate. I was wondering if anyone could help me out. I'm also unsure how old the immortals should be and how similar their respective ages. Obviously he is significantly older and more experienced than her.

I did say I'd do the research for this because Veroe rightly said that such closely intertwined backstories would have to be written by one person. I'm having difficulty with it though and could use some input from greater minds.

All thoughts gratefully received.

 

[princesssexci]

Okay so I'm having trouble writing my intro post for Princeton Place. So far I have her stressing out over needing to rehearse but I can't seem to decide if she should go to the pool or what she should do because of lack of players that have posted.

Any suggestions would be highly appreciated, thanks!

 

[monique_minx]

Ooh, what a great idea, I must exploit it at once.

subscribes

So...

I'm planning to write a highlander style thread with Veroe. This thread will feature two characters who have a LOT of backstory that spans many centuries and must be closely intertwined. He is going to be an evil immortal, who has at various intervals trained, enslaved and fought my character, a female immoral who I've been planning to make asian in appearance.

I'm trying to flesh out their backstory but my historical knowledge is woefully inadequate. I was wondering if anyone could help me out. I'm also unsure how old the immortals should be and how similar their respective ages. Obviously he is significantly older and more experienced than her.

All thoughts gratefully received.

Well, Veroe chuck in here too. Exactly what kind of historical knowledge would the two of you be needing and how far back do you wish to go?

Ancient History is a bit of a passion of mine

 

[monique_minx]

Okay so I'm having trouble writing my intro post for Princeton Place. So far I have her stressing out over needing to rehearse but I can't seem to decide if she should go to the pool or what she should do because of lack of players that have posted.

Any suggestions would be highly appreciated, thanks!

For an intro post, a link would be useful to us Princess

Intro posts are a cinch because basically you are introducing your character more than actions, only a small amount is required there. I tend to focus on the kind of person they are, their appearance and their way of thinking when I write an intro post.

Give us a fair idea of the plot?

 

[princesssexci]

Princeton Place

According to Zydrate, the moderator of the thread the plot is basically a lit style soap operaish thread. My character is a ficticious porn star and actor's (non porn) daughter. She's a fashion model and actress and I have no clue what to do with my character at the moment.

 

[fuckmeat]

Ooh, fantastic.

Well as you know your Greek and Egyptian stuff, we could use that. I was thinking around 800 years for her maybe and 1500 or more for him.

He found and trained her when she was young, though not half as nicely as the guy in the film did it. Then he enslaved her and she rejected his more megalomaniac philosophies. He would have had her at his mercy for quite a time, until she fought and damn near beheaded him. She escapes and goes to ground, putting distance as well as time between them, till he tracks her down in the USA and they duel again on a skyscraper roof. they're so closely matched that it becomes a draw, with her collapsing and regenerating on the roof and him being pitched over the side to regenerate at street level. At that point two human characters will be introduced and the SRP proper will begin.

 

[monique_minx]

Princeton Place

According to Zydrate, the moderator of the thread the plot is basically a lit style soap operaish thread. My character is a ficticious porn star and actor's (non porn) daughter. She's a fashion model and actress and I have no clue what to do with my character at the moment.

My suggestion would be to send her down to the pool then, physical fitness would be a crucial thing to her and doing a few laps would not be out of character for her. She would also have the opportunity to interact with some of the other tenants.

Ooh, fantastic.

Well as you know your Greek and Egyptian stuff, we could use that. I was thinking around 800 years for her maybe and 1500 or more for him.

He found and trained her when she was young, though not half as nicely as the guy in the film did it. Then he enslaved her and she rejected his more megalomaniac philosophies. He would have had her at his mercy for quite a time, until she fought and damn near beheaded him. She escapes and goes to ground, putting distance as well as time between them, till he tracks her down in the USA and they duel again on a skyscraper roof. they're so closely matched that it becomes a draw, with her collapsing and regenerating on the roof and him being pitched over the side to regenerate at street level. At that point two human characters will be introduced and the SRP proper will begin.

Okay I think you and I shall do a little tampering in private sis flesh out the back story for you and play around with dates and such.

 

[princesssexci]

My suggestion would be to send her down to the pool then, physical fitness would be a crucial thing to her and doing a few laps would not be out of character for her. She would also have the opportunity to interact with some of the other tenants.

Thanks Minx!

 

[Veroe]

FM, don't fret over it, we're still very much in the developmental stage of making our thread. I didn't realize what a large task to accomplish I gave you.

800 years from now in the area of Egypt and Greece would be around the time of the fifth crusade. just the type of situation our baddie would relish being a part of. Anyhow, here's a link to the wiki page for the 5th crusade http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Crusade I hope you two find this helpful.

And I'm hopeful with Minxy's help you two can come up with a great backstory for the characters. I can hardly wait for it.

 

[Ausus_girl13]

To help you out, Ausus,

Do I give up?

No

Does Jolie dump the car, the clothes, and get cash?

Yeah, head for a safehouse with Nathan, Have Jolie, take time to assess the situation she's in, call her contacts for info or supplies and support, people in her profession always have contacts in the espionage or criminal underground the world over. Use this post to have Jolie try and figure out what to do next, if you can't figure that out either ask Spectre if he has any plot ideas you can help steer it towards, or just leave the next step for him to tackle in his next post.

Agree with Veroe, the inherient distrust that runs rampant through a profession like that means you have avenue's to explore. Calling contacts or people close enough to actually trust makes sense while you and Spectre decide on the next plot point.

Thanks guys!! I will weigh in on others when I have a chance. Let's see what I come up with.

 

[monique_minx]

FM, don't fret over it, we're still very much in the developmental stage of making our thread. I didn't realize what a large task to accomplish I gave you.

800 years from now in the area of Egypt and Greece would be around the time of the fifth crusade. just the type of situation our baddie would relish being a part of. Anyhow, here's a link to the wiki page for the 5th crusade http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Crusade I hope you two find this helpful.

And I'm hopeful with Minxy's help you two can come up with a great backstory for the characters. I can hardly wait for it.

Heh oh I am giving her a history lesson my dear, love myself in research mode

We're going for Egyptian or Roman for your character and English for hers. Don't worry, she'll have her head completely full of useless history facts if I have my way

 

[Veroe]

Roman seems to fit with the personality we talked about with the guy, and I'm sure I can work with that.

Now for some help for me...What should our highlander based thread be titled-after all we can't really call it highlander when neither Macleoud Connor nor Duncan is involved in it at all?

 

[Last_Rider]

At the risk of provoking your wrath Veroe, you could call it something along the lines of, "The other children of Zeist"


Seriously though, maybe, "Eternally entwined" or something with that same kind of feel. I'm awful at titles as well, so hopefully others can provide more useful suggestions.

 

[monique_minx]

Roman seems to fit with the personality we talked about with the guy, and I'm sure I can work with that.

Now for some help for me...What should our highlander based thread be titled-after all we can't really call it highlander when neither Macleoud Connor nor Duncan is involved in it at all?

Oh dear god lol

It's been far too long since I've watched the movies, that brought an onslaught of memories though! I need to watch them again heh!

Can't help you there mate but I got FM up to speed with the history of her character, I'm going to crash out and I'll help her with yours later

 

[ShyMystica]

Now for some help for me...What should our highlander based thread be titled-after all we can't really call it highlander when neither Macleoud Connor nor Duncan is involved in it at all?

A Thorn Eternal.

I presume from your descriptions that the relationship between the two characters is almost like having a thorn pierced in your back; often painful but you cannot remove it since you can't reach it. *shrugs shyly* Thus the title that came to my head.

 

[Rayne_Clowd]

I hope you don't mind minx but I totally need this thread so I am subscribing and will be back to ask for help when I feel I can write a coherent sentence *mutters about damn colds*