Time it takes to make a rp post

[Jonathan Meer]

I love it. Since Akane joined, we're finding all these great threads from ages past.

It should be noted that I almost never break 1500 words. The 1500/hour essentially is based off the fact that I spend about twenty minutes on my post, then roll. Even my "important" posts are done in about a half-hour. Maybe it's the mark of me being a technically unsound author or something, but I'm usually pretty satisfied with what I have written, and almost never proofread. For example, I don't remember the last time I gave my roleplay a read through before posting it. I just don't do it.

So I'm either a friggin' grade-A genius of writing who could rape Hemingway, or I need to learn some of the finer fundamentals. =p

[Ander]

I can't accurately say, since I get distracted and go through three other projects before I remember what I got on the computer for.

[Hellfighter 17]

Originally posted by Raditzu

Originally posted by Krillin
1500 words an hour.

About the same for me.

However, I don't actually start writting until I already have the jist of the post planned out. By "jist" I mean thinking to myself "X needs to happen, and then Jo and Bob need to find Y and use Z by the time I finish writing."

Way to go all algebraic with yer RPing.

I think I've slowed down. The last KoAII assignment I did took me about an hour and a half, and it was around 1400 words, so that's about 933 words per hour.

I generally don't plan in advance. I just start typing and get ideas, and only rarely will I go back and change soemthing to fit an idea I got. I think I may have done that about three or four times this whole year.

[Belle Hibiki]

Generally, when I'm trying, it takes me a little over a day to make a post that's 1000-1500 words in length. The actual writing takes about 1-2 hours of combined work, but I like to leave it alone and come back to it the next day, reread it, correct mistakes, make it flow better, etc.

So yeah. I'm slower than most.

[Saz]

Originally posted by Krillin
I love it. Since Akane joined, we're finding all these great threads from ages past.

This thread isn't that old.

Anyway, it's still taking me like 2-3 hours to write about 1000 words. But I'm usually doing other things at the same time.

[Jonathan Meer]

Originally posted by Sazuaa

This thread isn't that old.

I consider topics that haven't had a post in them for two weeks as "dead". This one's been pushing five weeks. So yeah, it kinda is that old.

As a sort of side question for some of you, do you generally wait for inspiration to roleplay, or do you just push forward without it?

[Saz]

Usually I'll know what to write, but sometimes I get stuck on something, when that happens I would normally just take a break and come back to it later.

[Super Buu]

As a little consolation for those who're as slow as I am, most professional writers don't do a great deal every day either. Philip Pullman does roughly 1100 words a day. From what I hear, that's about average. My seminar teacher, who's a published writer, says that on some days he'll get about 500 words done, and on other days he'll get 3000. When he rereads it the next morning, he find that with the latter, it's usually a load of crap (in his own words) and he needs to spend ages revising it, and with the former, it's the opposite. I'm a firm believer in this, since I experience it myself.

If anything I think I've gotten slower as time goes on. But that's simply because I've been spending more time trying to make my stuff better. And when I look back at my first posts, I can see I'm right.

Off Chubbs, though, that's probably not the best way of writing. The best way is to let yourself write crap, and then go back and revise it. Posts are always easier to self-C&C when you leave it for a while, so that when you return it doesn't have the novelty it did when you first finished it. Unfortunately on Chubbs that's often not the case, whereas lucky novel writers can do it anytime between writing and publishing.

[Ruhiel]

I can't write a darn thing that's worth keeping when I have no inspiration or will to write. However, when I do have something in mind, I can usually have a post entirely done within about 30-45 minutes. I'm just a really fast typer (100+ wpm) when I get going. Still, when I want to do a really good job, it can take me at most 3 hours. If it goes anywhere past that, I just can't write anymore, because I'll have run out of ideas to put down.

[Aiden]

Once i've got what i want to do in my head, i can pull off a 1,000 word post in about 20 minutes without proofreading it, which i rarely do.

[Vegeta Jr]

Originally posted by Pan

Originally posted by Krillin

I consider topics that haven't had a post in them for two weeks as "dead". This one's been pushing five weeks. So yeah, it kinda is that old.

As a sort of side question for some of you, do you generally wait for inspiration to roleplay, or do you just push forward without it?

I have 6 hours of school to think about what I'm going to post. =/ Honestly, I can hardly pay attention to anything else when I have an idea, especially if it's a killer one. And then I get home, sit down, see that PCIII is still up, /sigh, and then forget the idea all together.

>.> Thus is the cause of my horrendous English grade.