A little more description, a little more action please...

[socksiesohmy]

I appreciate that you tag quickly, I really do. But you're giving me next to nothing to work with here. A touch of dialogue, no description, no attempts to work on setting or plot or background or internal thoughts or really any of it. It just doesn't cut it for me. I know the difference between tagging quickly because you're focusing on a log and

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[socksiesohmy]

Yeah. It wasn't a huge plot or anything, but she was really giving me nothing to work with.

If I want to tell someone a story, I'll write a fanfic and post it and they can go read it there. I RP because I like collaborative fiction.

[maverickz3r0]

Is it bad that I sung "A Little Less Conversation" in my head when I read the title?

But yeah, word. I'd rather wait even a day for a good tag that I can reply to than a few minutes for a one-liner. When I see people in chat saying 'posted!' to each other every five minutes it makes me go 'okay, so...you can't have written much then.'

[socksiesohmy]

It's what I had in mind when writing it.

Yeah, exactly. And I'm not against fast logging. My normal RP partner takes about as long as I do to respond, and we've worked together beautifully for six months now, but if you're going to be fast, be fast because you just are, not because you can't be bothered to give even the smallest scrap of description.

[sidhe_uaine42]

One-liners aren't bad if there's something there.

I once explained what I wanted to somebody by saying, "Imagine you're playing in your backyard on a hot summer day. Would you rather be hit by an air-filled balloon or a water balloon? Please fill the balloons, um - your posts, with water."

It was in an OOC chatbox I did this, not the IC board.

couldn't help myself

[azkaban_hunter]

"This post is pretty wet...."

or

"This post is pretty waterlogged...."

[socksiesohmy]

They have a time and a place. But when you're doing paragraph-style logging and your partner is generally responding with 2-3 descriptive paragraphs, one line just isn't enough when it's every response, even if there is technically something there to respond to.

I've got nothing against short-style logging, scripting, or short tags in the middle of a longer log when they're appropriate. Just a bit frustrated with recent experiences with partners who can't seem to tell the difference between a script and a log because they want to respond in under five minutes.

[sidhe_uaine42]

Ah, so the person's giving you the equivalent of a half teaspoon of beef broth when you want a four ounce steak, eh?

Sorry about my food analogy, it's just that it sprang to mind after the fire alarm went off in my building (false alarm, though neighbor burned the popcorn he was making.) Another addition to the building's file at the fire department. *rolleyes*