All right guys and gals! We're coming the end of the prologue of this RP and soon the main group is going to be together (Dante, Lilth, Shola, Piper, Zoduz, Blaze, Lucas, and Nyx). That will start the main journey portion of the RP.
So going in to that I thought I'd make a few notes about how things are going and let you guys know what's going on in mine and Kura's little corner of the world. If you haven't noticed that my posting has slowed down, it has because I've started back to work. In a week or so the semester will start and it looks as though I will be working two jobs in addition to grad school and have tentatively begun a new relationship. What that means is: one, my posting will probably be limited to once or twice a week. Two, Kura, my lovely roommate, is going to be co-GMing with me in this RP to help move the story along when I'm swamped.
Three is the big one:
I am not requiring you guys to post as quickly as you do since I cannot keep up that pace. You all have some really amazing characters and I think you all have the ability to really contribute to the RP to make it a great read for all of the other players and the people reading along.
Quality posts make everyone excited to read and participate and I think we all owe it to each other to try to make this as fun for everyone as possible. Our roles as GMs is to facilitate and run this so that we all get to hone our writing and have fun doing it.
So I'd like to challenge all of you to really engage your fellow players.
Take more time to write longer, more detailed, more interactive posts. Take a day, or even two days, but give the person after you something to run with. Talk to each other if you aren't already! Talk to me and Kura if you'd like to do something daring or aggressive in the RP. Come to us with ideas, concerns, questions! I want to point out in particular (but not exclusively) Kura and Captain Scrubz as the kinds of posts that are really driving the RP forward.
It's easy to fall into hyperfocusing on your character and not engaging the story at large, but I encourage you all to break away from writing about JUST your character's innermost thoughts and begin to engage the worlds I've set up and the awesome characters everyone else is playing. I can't stress enough
to read my posts and information here carefully since I am using those to give you guys info about what's going on. If you skim what I or Kura has posted, we can tell and it hurts our little black hearts. Also: if English is not your first language, or you're dyslexic, or you flat-out have some doubts about your post's readability, please don't hesitate to send it to me! I do this for a living and it's nothing for me to skim a post and tidy it up a little.
So in short: Take the time you need, read posts closely, ask us about anything you're unsure of or wondering about, and put your all into making really awesome posts.
I say this not to scold, but because I see that I've got some really good writers that I know can really shine.
Edit: Here are a couple of links that might be helpful, just found them courtesy of Kura myself.
Some guidelines on RP habits that make it hard to play with others
Some guidelines on why short posts are usually not helpful