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Jun 3, 2014 9:40:52 GMT -6
Post by Icon Lord Leon Corbin on Jun 3, 2014 9:40:52 GMT -6
Struggling to find that feeling efedding used to give me. You know, that magic. How do you recapture it?
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Jun 3, 2014 9:52:45 GMT -6
Post by Vernon Vanderbilt on Jun 3, 2014 9:52:45 GMT -6
Fourish years off has worked pretty well for me so far.
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Jun 3, 2014 9:58:23 GMT -6
Post by Icon Lord Leon Corbin on Jun 3, 2014 9:58:23 GMT -6
Well, I am supposed to be retired lol. And I have taken a break.
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Jun 3, 2014 12:22:21 GMT -6
Post by Mickey Tourette on Jun 3, 2014 12:22:21 GMT -6
I left effeding to for a few years before I came back with Mickey. So yeah I can totally relate. You might start to like it again.... thats what happened with me.
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Burke
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Characters Handled: Burke, Mylène Roux
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Post by Burke on Jun 3, 2014 12:48:07 GMT -6
Yeah, I took three years off and feel refreshed since starting again.
That said, when I was last actively fedding before that and hit down periods I always found that reading stuff I wouldn't normally read, especially poems, would sort of jolt my mind into working again. A lot of the RPs I wrote/write take inspiration from poetry or music or things like that, sometimes as little as a phrase or a sentence provides me with something. Burke's finisher is taken from a latin phrase I first heard in a poem. I got an entire gimmick out of a single lyric in a song with an old character of mine. The Burke character came mostly from Chris Jericho's "ARMBAR!" promo. I guess what I'm saying is instead of sitting there trying to force something out, try just absorbing other stuff and the mind has a way of feeding off that.
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Icon Lady Eva Hikari
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"Greetings Vorcha scum. This one mistook you for Krogan excrement."
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Characters Handled: Eva Hikari, Hayden Hoshiko, William Stone
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Jun 3, 2014 13:19:00 GMT -6
Post by Icon Lady Eva Hikari on Jun 3, 2014 13:19:00 GMT -6
Your issue is you're too ingrained in the Mass Effect universe to think outside that box.I agree that taking a break can help, likewise reading things you otherwise wouldn't. Reading old rps always helps put me back in the character frame of mind. Then again it could be that you characters were an escape, and now that your life is pretty fookin awesome you're less likely to want to step back into Leon/Davina's twisted little worlds.
Inspiration used to come from anywhere though didn't it? Music, convos,tv? Maybe you just need to talk hobby with someone who isn't me? Throw around ideas and see what happens.
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Post by Icon Lord Jon Kellar on Jun 3, 2014 14:17:59 GMT -6
Don't just do fedding. Enjoy other hobbies
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Jun 3, 2014 14:51:38 GMT -6
Post by Sir Chris Cairns on Jun 3, 2014 14:51:38 GMT -6
I've never lost 'the magic' as I've always loved efedding. Lucky, otherwise efedding's just a shit waste of time spent on hundreds of thousands of words that only about eight people are ever going to read/skim/skim-read.
Everything about it is just fun to me though. Better still because GZW2K1 has been around for thirteen or so years, so there is a lot of history (and obscure in-jokes) to draw upon.
I never really think of myself as playing a role in efedding either. I generally just aim to amuse others and amuse myself with silly scenarios, and when that works out then it never gets old.
I usually write matches as well which is less fun and altogether just a bit bleak, but it helps keep the fed going, so as long as I'm not writing ridiculous amounts of matches then I don't mind too much.
The main thing holding me back usually is just a good old fashioned lack of time. There are never enough hours in the day. As enjoyable as efedding can be, it is just far too time-consuming sometimes. Whenever I'm short on time or have lots to do, efedding is easily the first thing I look at cutting down on or dumping altogether.
Now that I work from home... at a computer... on the internet... with my own flexible hours... It's a blessing and a curse as it means I can make more time for efedding, but often I'd rather not, because I spend so much time now at the computer anyway, that I've actually taken up running and gardening.
It also helps a great deal that I still love wrestling. Do you still love wrestling?
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Jun 3, 2014 15:06:00 GMT -6
Post by Icon Lord Leon Corbin on Jun 3, 2014 15:06:00 GMT -6
Honestly? Not anymore. Not with what I can get my hands on telly to see which is WWE and TNA and both of those brands have done a brilliant job of making me despise something I loved for years. It's fucking awful.
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Jun 3, 2014 18:07:04 GMT -6
Post by Mickey Tourette on Jun 3, 2014 18:07:04 GMT -6
I think what it was with me back then was tha it kinda got too much. See to cut a long sotry short wcwo moved to another board and i I helped run it for a bit. Then it moved again ( long story lol ) and I was given the fed to run under the new name of WXWF., this got too much as I was already running 3 characters and tryingto put together shows by myself as nobody helped lol In the end I decided " Fuck this " and handed it back to Torg lol But he was too busy to so it closed. I did go back to fedding about a year later when a few of the WCWO folk had told me about ACW.. but the drama started up again so I got out and vowed never to fed again. That was till last year when I was chatting to Rob about feding and I joked about bringing Mickey here.. " Do it " he said... and well here I am.
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Jun 3, 2014 20:08:59 GMT -6
Post by Icon Lord Leon Corbin on Jun 3, 2014 20:08:59 GMT -6
The place is better for it lol.
Also, about liking wrestling, I stopped watching mainstream wrestling back in 07 but still loved and enjoyed fedding way after that, so I don't think it's that anyway as I would still go to a wrestling show to see a bunch of people I know nothing about if it means getting to see great wrestling.
I think there is truth in what Kel says. (Not the Mass Effect bit ) where it's easier to delve deep into character when you're miserable. Lord knows my best writing was when I was down. Maybe I am just a one trick pony where I can only really write as Leon and now I've broken him, it's just not the same?
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Post by Icon Lord Leon Corbin on Jun 4, 2014 3:38:08 GMT -6
That and my favourite people to dual with are not really available anymore.
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Post by Icon Lord Jon Kellar on Jun 4, 2014 6:19:47 GMT -6
Charming :-(
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Jun 4, 2014 7:04:17 GMT -6
Post by Icon Lord Leon Corbin on Jun 4, 2014 7:04:17 GMT -6
You know what I mean
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Jun 4, 2014 8:30:46 GMT -6
Post by Mickey Tourette on Jun 4, 2014 8:30:46 GMT -6
Ikn ow how it is when you really get into a game. I was like that with Dragon Age and the saints row games. I stil drag em out from time to time and when I do.... goodbye social life lol
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