Question of the Day - 8/19/23

[REQUIEM Puroresu]

What's your preferred roleplay style? Promo? CD heavy? A good mix? Something else altogether?

[Aria Knight]

A good mix. I love writing promos, as it's at the core what the hobby is about... but character development is also a major key. Evolve as things happen in MGP/wherever, why are they the way they are with a backstory. Mix it up always helps my sanity as well

[Brighamj96]

I'm slowly learning how to be more CD heavy but I've only ever made promo style before efedding with EAW and MGP

[DS(Jessa Wells)]

I'm CD heavy. I like delving into the internals of a character and exploring what they are feeling. I also like telling a story. I tend to mix wrestling in as part of their life. My view is they are a person who happens to wrestle rather than having it define who they are. I don't enjoy promoing as much. I try to find creative ways to deal with that aspect when at all possible.

Part of what I dig about fedding is that everyone has different styles and enjoys writing different things. Makes it interesting to read everyone's work.

[maddelinesatterfield]

Mixture. I like to build the character's story and world while mixing wrestling in with it.

[Chloe Storm]

I've gone through the different preferences. Back in the day, it was just more of "write something different" but didn't have a TON of CD or Promo. It was just a story.

Then it was much more promo heavy.

Now it's much more CD heavy. I think I'm digging the CD heavy style, especially in the CAW world.

[Cap]

Generally, story-heavy rather than promo-heavy these days. Of course, it depends on the character as well as the word limit. With a small word limit, you're almost coerced into focusing on a promo exclusively, though I'm not even doing that on a 1k limit with Juniper Jackobin, clearly displaying that I'm a story-first writer by far nowadays.

Even going back three or so years ago, I was still a promo-first writer. But in competing with a huge base of strong writers, I've had to adapt to a story-first approach. Being a promo-first writer would never get it done in this day and age, barring a 500 word limit or something.

That said, I still enjoy writing promos. I just make them count now. Here in MGP, I've even experimented with writing super quick, succinct 300-400 word promos. I often find that I get to say what I need to say with a promo in that amount of words. I'm also aware that the more one monologues and goes on a tirade, whether a promo tirade or a descriptive/narrative tirade, the more likely that someone's going to tune out. So I try to make stuff flow as best as I can, never giving one scene or 'section' too many words, and to make things readable as best as I can.

[Karlie Nash]

Mix of both