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- Primarily Prefer Female
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- I'm open to a wide range of genres. Obscenely wide. It's harder for me to list all I do like than all I don't like.
My favorite settings are fantasy combined with something else, multiverse, post-apoc, historical (mixed with something else), and futuristic. I'm not limited to those, but it's a good start.
My favorite genres include mystery, adventure, action, drama, tragedy (must be mixed with something else and kept balanced), romance (again must be mixed, and more.
I'm happy to include elements of slice-of-life and romance, but doing them on their own doesn't hold my interest indefinitely.
This is a challenge a friend of mine put forth to me several months ago, and it hasn't left my head since. He told me "Mood, you're not allowed to use the word 'was' in your roleplays anymore!"
I asked why, and he spouted some bull-dung that sounded legit. I tried it, and it was hard. However, despite the difficulty, I noticed it did make me think harder about my word choice, and in some cases an active tense worked better, and in others I found leaving off those descriptions was ideal, and in some cases, I really did need 'was'. I took it a step further. No more 'were', no more other verbs that meant 'being'.
I went from this...
To this...
I challenge you to tell a short story (or edit a roleplay post) with no 'being' verbs, and if you do use them, make them bright red [color=red]like this[/color], and then count them when you're done to look at how often you're repeating them.
Disclaimer: Do not completely eliminate 'being' verbs from your writing. Everything in moderation. This is a prompt to encourage writers to think about what words they want to use a little more when writing.
I asked why, and he spouted some bull-dung that sounded legit. I tried it, and it was hard. However, despite the difficulty, I noticed it did make me think harder about my word choice, and in some cases an active tense worked better, and in others I found leaving off those descriptions was ideal, and in some cases, I really did need 'was'. I took it a step further. No more 'were', no more other verbs that meant 'being'.
The desert sand was afire in the morning light.
Barren sand dunes erupted into vibrant hues as the morning light washed over them.
I challenge you to tell a short story (or edit a roleplay post) with no 'being' verbs, and if you do use them, make them bright red [color=red]like this[/color], and then count them when you're done to look at how often you're repeating them.
Disclaimer: Do not completely eliminate 'being' verbs from your writing. Everything in moderation. This is a prompt to encourage writers to think about what words they want to use a little more when writing.
