If a character I play is female and has purple hair, there's a high likelihood that she's a polyglot who can speak several languages, at least.

Clifffhanger posts with an implied outcome but often goes the opposite.

All my posts are plain af. They read less like story sometimes and more like someone broadly explaining what someone else is doing.

Also, I dislike starting a new paragraph with the same word I started the one before it with.

Why do I feel the need to use commas so much? They're all over my posts and I don't even know when I started to use them so much.

making my post sound more threatening w/ the flavor text + narrative speaking while the actions and dialogue is tame.

i.e.:

Any characters I play that happen to be amoral tend not to refer themselves as such, but rather prefer to label themselves as "morally flexible".

the phrase... "there's a" as a way to start my descriptions off (idk if this makes sense) but basically:

My whole reply process.

I write all my replies in Grammarly and then post them on my test site inside their templates. Why? Because for whatever reason, I'm hyper-focused on making sure they look aesthetically pleasing inside the template. It's 100% why it can take me like 2 or 3 hours to post sometimes. I complained about it to myself every time but low-key, I like it.

I should say that while I'm writing on Grammarly - I'm editing and being beyond picky about the words I use. I'll write a sentence or sentences describing the same thing like 5-6 times at points. Super draining at times, and I never end up really satisfied. But damn, do I enjoy it.

Some of my posts still read like my attempts at my dissertation rather than stories, so much that I feel the need to go back and add more "character" to them. Years of break does it to someone I guess, but it certainly makes me feel super insecure at time.

hyperbole, war crimes against english grammar and the oxford comma, as well as a notorious amount of em-dashes

also i tend to hate reusing certain words in paragraphs or more, particularly if they're a "large" (see: multi-syllabic) word like, hypothetically, "admission" or "possibility" or "avoidance". i'm not joking when i say i have a tab open purely just to google synonyms whenever i have to write something.

Reviving cuz I’m curious :eyes:

I usually write my replies starting with the dialogue or the ending first, and work my way back to the beginning. Then I read it through start to finish, edit it to flow better, and then post. Unless it’s a starter (so nothing to reply to), I find it really hard to write straight start to finish.

I like thinking of how my character responds to someone’s dialogue immediately after reading it, so I like to write that down first and then work around it, usually writing the reply to the end before backtracking to the beginning.

It sounds v disjointed but I like to think my posts make sense lol. I do read through it straight to finish so it's cohesive, it's just that I can't imagine beginning a reply without the chaotic jumping anymore. Some advice an old writer friend gave me was “write what you want to write, if you want to start at the end, go for it” and I live by that personally.

I did not know this thread existed and boy oh boy do I have that thing I do. Yikes.

I will read sections of a reply at a time and start writing a reply, only to have to delete like half of it because it's been addressed in the second part of the post I haven't read yet. Whoops. I really should learn to read a whole reply first before I start replying to it, but no.

Also, I have weird dyslexia that likes to flip flop whole sentences instead of just letters or single words, so I've 100% read the same sentence like 3 times and misread everything all the time and am like. Oh. Wait a second. That's not what happened okay. I often have to rewrite all the things because I am not smart lolol.

em dashes, colons, and semi-colons hhhhhh

(which are also part of my arsenal in writing more technical paper hhhhhhhh)