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EVE-Online RP Discussion and Resources => EVE Fiction + Fiction discussion => Topic started by: Makkal on 25 May 2013, 21:45
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As we're coming upon Makkal's one-year anniversary, I thought I'd start a blog because all the cool RPers have one.
Any thoughts, suggestions, guides, advice?
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Are you concerned about persons metagaming your content on the blog?
Are you planning on making it a regularly updated blog or non-periodic as content becomes available?
etc.
What are your plans in general?
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This is hypocrisy, but my advice is to keep the entries fairly short and not too heavy in terms of depth. I've been doing my blog like that, and honestly, it's kind of made writing new entries intimidating and exhausting now that the varnish of the affair has sort of worn off.
Sustainability is always the best thing to shoot for with this sorta thing.
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Are you concerned about persons metagaming your content on the blog?
I'm ambivalent. The people I RP tend to respect that OOC/IC divide and Makkal herself is rather unimportant in the scheme of things.
Other than the 'It's EVE so you need to be paranoid of everything!' I find I'm not bothered by the idea.
Are you planning on making it a regularly updated blog or non-periodic as content becomes available?
Updated as my whims strike me.
What are your plans in general?
I've enjoyed reading through other character's blogs and think someone might enjoy reading through Makkal's. I have no 'plans' per se.
Oh, and it's probably good for my writing in general.
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This is hypocrisy, but my advice is to keep the entries fairly short and not too heavy in terms of depth. I've been doing my blog like that, and honestly, it's kind of made writing new entries intimidating and exhausting now that the varnish of the affair has sort of worn off.
Sustainability is always the best thing to shoot for with this sorta thing.
How long is 'fairly short?'
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How long is 'fairly short?'
Whatever you can write in 20-30 minutes as opposed to over an hour.
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I've taken an hour for a single post on these forums. ;)
That's a good guideline.
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Are you concerned about persons metagaming your content on the blog?
I'm ambivalent. The people I RP tend to respect that OOC/IC divide and Makkal herself is rather unimportant in the scheme of things.
Other than the 'It's EVE so you need to be paranoid of everything!' I find I'm not bothered by the idea.
Are you planning on making it a regularly updated blog or non-periodic as content becomes available?
Updated as my whims strike me.
What are your plans in general?
I've enjoyed reading through other character's blogs and think someone might enjoy reading through Makkal's. I have no 'plans' per se.
Oh, and it's probably good for my writing in general.
You should be fine for the blog then. Most people use blogspot, I believe, so getting involved into the blogger circle isn't hard.
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This depends entirely on the purpose of the blog. It sounds like you're doing this so others will enjoy it, not to build a professional portfolio or vanity affair. I'm also assuming this is about your RP.
If you're interested in people taking an interest in your blog, you should take an interest in those people. Mention other players (if OOC) or their characters (if IC). You're far more likely to draw a crowd if they can see their own RP efforts reflected in your blog.
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As we're coming upon Makkal's one-year anniversary, I thought I'd start a blog because all the cool RPers have one.
Any thoughts, suggestions, guides, advice?
/me is not a cool RPer :P
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/me :cube: Lyn
Neither am I. :(
:P
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I am :lol:
Although it's somewhat out of use currently.
Makkal, my advice would be to do lots of shorter posts rather than a few very large ones, and I often chose to make them as ambiguous as possible, only describe scenes that were public knowledge, or refer to actual happenings in game (eg, fights against PIE). This makes it pretty difficult for people to use any potentially damaging information in their RP.
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I was a cool RP'er, then I ran afoul of Gwen's issue.
(BTW, Gwen, it's not really hypocrisy if you hang a lampshade on it and say, "I've been doing this, it hasn't been working, don't do it.")
Keep 'em short and relatively shallow. It gets really hard to keep going if you try for depth.
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I used to have an RP blog. Ran into the :effort: issue as well. I've been debating re-starting it as a more general thing including OOC blatherings about EVE and whatever as well as IC postings.
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(BTW, Gwen, it's not really hypocrisy if you hang a lampshade on it and say, "I've been doing this, it hasn't been working, don't do it.")
It is if I have no intention of taking my own advice. :P
What can I say - My writing just tends to feel irritatingly unfinished to me, unless it's... Very developed, and very dense. To the point that it sorta feels pointless otherwise. Comes with the degree in creative writing (alongside the unemployment).
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My advice is based purely on my own experiences as an RPer and RP blogger;
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Hmm, do EVE-gate broadcasts count as blogging?
It works for me anyway.
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My blog makes me sad, most often when I realize that I did most of the writing on it while drinking nothing stronger than unsweetened iced tea.
There are some things I'd do if I started it all over again:
1) Stick to one character, and the other player characters she interacted with. I didn't really have a need to flesh out any NPCs. Or have NPCs. No NPCs would mean no NPCs that I'd convert to player characters, and then be tempted to blog about their adventures, so on and so forth.
2) Keep the historical, system and technology notes in their original form (e.g. bullet points jotted on a steno pad), and off the damn screen. The blog was supposed to be a memory aid, not a novel in search of a plot.
3) Write an occasional OOC post. On second thought, no, I wouldn't do that.