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How to not suck at writing.
svb1972:
--- Quote from: Mickey Finn on March 22, 2010, 03:33:21 PM ---When a MUSH clicks, it's golden. When it gets cliquish and stalls, it's frustrating beyond belief.
A MUSH is like a convention...lots of social, kick ass intelligent people mixed with people with bizarre social skills and people you secretly worry about.
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Sometimes it's hard to tell which are which.
Not to mention, sometimes.. they're both. And you end up having rp/conversations with 2 different people.. who are really the same person.
sometimes the kick ass intelligent people are also the one with bizarre social skills .. or worse.
I gave up mushing because it's just.. too much. The social politics behind it are troublesome. And Mushes tend to suffer from either Staff retiring and being replaced by people who are less good. Or by Staff that never leaves and gets serious god complexes.
Kali:
Yeah, and they haven't changed in all the years I've been MUSHing. I tried again recently, on a World of Darkness mu*. The person who ran the werewolf sphere had been there for a long while. Everyone who was nice and kissed her character's ass got special consideration. If you didn't, you got cut out of sphere events, had a hard time getting anything approved, found your character/pack constantly harassed...
I left. Wasn't worth it. If you have the patience to find a good game and a good sphere, it can be awesome. It just takes more patience than I've got these days.
Cajun Guy:
I am no expert, but when I have trouble getting into a characters head I base it loosely on someone I know/have heard/read about. Even if I don't entirely understand why someone does something you can reasonably predict what someone would do in a circumstance and often that is good enough. It helps build mystery ;) Seems to me that if you leave something open it gives the reader room to fill in blanks on their own which can be fun. Heck that's 90% of this forum.
Cajun Guy
Mickey Finn:
(Ironically, the White Wolf MUSH I'm reccomending is Cajun Nights. While not exceedingly active, it's alive enough and the staff are fantastic at present.)
Cajun Guy:
I never did the MUSH but I was a play tester for them a LOOOONNNGG time ago. The guy that GM'd our regular game moved to Atlanta and wound up working for them for a long time. Can't stand to see what they've done to the WOD since the company was sold.
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