How does one get people to pick up want ads reliably? Mine are always very open for all sorts of adventures.

I feel like we've swapped journeys, hahaha. I usually have written 'good' characters overcoming what has felt like an insurmountable darkness, where their healing and redemption is the focus of their story -- they refuse to let their trauma define them. It's super fun and rewarding storytelling, and I hope you're having a great time with it.

I'm going the opposite way now and writing a slow and inevitable descent into tragic villainy. It's been exciting for me to write a character who has access to storytelling avenues I can't write in 'good' characters, exploring emotions that I wouldn't want to IRL. There's something so satisfying about exploring new character storytelling directions, isn't there?

I wanna make another character so badly but I should focus on ending a couple more threads first.

I kinda wanna try doing character journals again at some point. For the characters who would write them of course! I kind it fun to write a character's thoughts and feelings sometimes.

I am having the worst depression episode of my life and I kind of have to reevaluate how much i'm doing per day with threads and such. What stuff sparks joy and what doesn't. It's never wrong to ask someone to drop a thread because you're trudging through it!

plans... schemes, even.

A lot of getting ballsy enough to jump into people's DMs and messaging them if I think a wanted ad of mine matches something that they were interested in doing. Even if it's not a perfect match, my wanted ads tend to have a lot of room for people to take the wanted ad in any direction that they want, with suggestions for possibilities to at least help give a platform to start building on. I think to be successful at getting wanted ads filled, you need a combination of make it easy enough for anyone new to jump right in (especially if this is the first time someone's joining a site, which is probably the easiest opportunity to get someone to pick up a wanted because they'll want to start RPing with people when they first hop on) without needing to know very much, and a sprinkle of friendliness to help welcome someone onboard and to get them excited to start on a site. I know when I'm first on a site, I try to pick up a wanted ad and see if it helps me stick— also, it helps when someone says they're really excited that I'm picking up their wanted ad. Make me want to write and I'll write! 

I need to get better about perceptions of my writing. I get into a "it's okay" --> "oh God it's terrible, burn it all" cycle, especially when not writing in such a long time.

If anything I just need to write gdi. Imma fight myself.

Lost out on a plot because I don't smut.

^{I roleplay to escape the failings of my body.}

the world needs more animanga middle aged female fcs :pray:

Hate it when that happens.

me here like "oh i know when i REALLY want to write a char and that's because i automatically go to do their replies while doing others"

no apparently my clue was that i just made a playlist for drayton pokemon in under three minutes