How's My Driving?

[peacefulwinter]

How am I playing Winter? She's a little bit crazier than my usual, so I'm always open to feedback, positive or negative. Please leave me comments, suggestions, or anything else that needs to get to me. Comments are screened and anon is on. Please be warned that anonymous comments may be unscreened once I've replied to them, partly so I can make sure you can see the reply, and partly to reduce the number of people making the same comment.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I see there's actually a comment similar to what I want to bring up to you, here so I'll just elaborate on what I see:

Your posts really do look like they're only for the CR Winter already has. I saw you talking on plurk today about how you wanted more people to tag you, and I went to look at your post. I saw absolutely nothing I could tag. My characters don't know Winter. Saying "here's food, but it won't last to get to Locke" isn't going to get Locke characters involved, and "I have no new information since last time" isn't very engaging. Asking for something new when nothing new has happened in the last two weeks due to mod drama isn't going to direct anyone who might have plot knowledge either, especially since so many Vegas characters are blatantly angry with the Locke characters. Not to mention you last post had serious paragraphs of what she's doing in Vegas in a hotel that normal Vegas people won't be able to access, and Locke people won't be able to access at all.

If you want more people outside of your CR to tag you, you're going to have to either tag out more to get more CR to respond to your posts, or provide real hooks for people to respond to. I know you want to make Winter cute, but if she's a chore to respond to, that won't get anything. And if you take days to respond to one tag it's going to be a chore, too, as it seems you only responded to one person on your post. That's not exactly welcoming when included with a "I want more people to tag it but I'm not tagging the people who have" plurk.

[peacefulwinter]

I admit that some of that boils down to "we can't do a whole lot without plot stuff", but for the most part, I'm still fishing for what I can do. And the reason there's only one tag on the post so far is that I haven't been in front of a computer since I posted that last night; the one that's there was a phone tag at work. This is my first time on a computer since, and I'm getting back to you first.

I know I need to tag out, and I'm trying to work on that. I know I need to tag more rapidly, and now that school's ending I'm trying to work on that. I don't want to make Winter hard to work with, but I don't know what to do aside from tag more and try to get back to tags faster. Which is, well, the golden rule of RP, I guess.

I'm also not sure what you mean by Vegas characters being angry at Locke characters - it feels like there only a couple rather than a whole bunch.

I guess I'm just not entirely sure what to do with this, other than the things I already know I need to address. If there's something else aside from tagging speed and more approachable plots, that's fine; I know not everything I do will attract new people, and I'm fine with that.

...I know I'm probably coming off a little coarse; I'm sorry for that. And I really do appreciate that you're taking time to try and help me figure out what I'm doing wrong. I'm just trying to wrap my head around what I can do.