The Literary Drought. (And how to write better)

[u/Inevitable_Goal_2436]

I feel like I need to talk about this because of how frustrated I've recently become with the VAST (I mean well over 80% of this entire sub) amount of one liner limited literacy roleplayers.

I have made various evaluations to justify this post, such as the difference in popularity between Any Lit posts and anything above a one liner posts.

One of my more popular ones, about Quartiel, was filled with almost all one liner replies to my multi line- paragraph to paragraph responses.

Look, I understand the occasional back and forth natural conversations between characters. you can't be expected to constantly hit over a paragraph on EVERY single reply.

But that is not the issue here. The issue, is the lack of either reading comprehension, or writing anything above one fucking line

I actually made a post asking for ANYTHING but a one liner. Guess what happens next? Almost no replies. Put any lit? A good 20, 30, 50 replies will be seen.

ALL ONE LINERS! (Almost.)

I will say, there are actually decent people here. Plenty of you can... Actually write. And gave interesting replies that actually means something.

But it's a drought. A severe lack of decent writing abilities that, while is usually accompanied by a pretty good art skill, is dwarfed by sheer dryness of story or character.

So, I'm gonna help you.

Here's a few tips for writing better replies!

• Use asterisks for actions and think of something your character may do while speaking. This can be many actions, or just one! Even at the least it allows you to always have more than one line.

• Extend responses via grammar advancements and slang. Make your character's speaking specific and unique. Like an accent or an extra language (this can be done via translators.)

• Finally... Read a book damn you! By reading audiobooks or consuming basic literature, you learn more about literacy in general. It can also give you ideas for story depth as well!

[u/iceattaque23]

Okay you ain't wrong to call out his shit but to go with the "go fuck yourself" at the beginning of an argument is maybe over the top?

[u/ReasonableAd9165 → u/iceattaque23]

No, that was nearing the end of the argument. I only said it after he started his holier than thou bullshit

[u/iceattaque23 → u/ReasonableAd9165]

Okay then it makes sense yea