Post by "Burned in Blood" Konrad Raab on Dec 3, 2018 22:16:21 GMT -5
I've been considering to do this post for a while about requesting somebody to help me proof read my RP's. I want to get better and I struggle to find errors in my work until somebody points them out to me.
I will get them done early just so you can read it through and advise me if needed to make changes of things not sounding right to make them sound better or helping me describe things better in my CD work.
I understand if you lot are too busy with your own feds, RP's and real life stuff, but I'm just unable to spot things myself. Respond here or in PM if you are able to help. Thank you.
Post by "Burned in Blood" Konrad Raab on Dec 4, 2018 21:22:55 GMT -5
Roxy Cotton If that's possible yes please as I want to get better, but I can't spot the mistakes very well.
Jet Somers I thought about it for a while, but yes truthfully, I never had the guts to do it and it was just that time of finding a proofreader to help me get a pair of eyes to help me out.
Post by "Burned in Blood" Konrad Raab on Mar 4, 2020 2:57:44 GMT -5
Is any tools, apps or anything you guys use to proof read your RP's? Since Roxy who used to help me has left, anybody else want to help me?
I need somebody to help me proof read my work because obviously, I can't on my own. It seems to still be a problem, but obviously a different problem to what I've written above this time.
I don't know where I repeat myself or know how to use different phrases, especially I don't know what some words mean. Any help would be very apprechated, even some tips to give me.
Post by cooltubesource on Mar 4, 2020 11:43:42 GMT -5
Proofing tip: Listen to your promos! I got this from Ken (HE does it because he falls asleep reading promos like a 70-year-old man "resting his eyes" while watching Matlock in his den with a glass of bourbon) and I can absolutely say that I proof my work WAY more now than I ever have. It's a fact that our eyes skip over our mistakes when reading, since our mind knows what we meant to say, which is why we were taught as kids to pass the paper and have a classmate read it. And having your computer or phone read your promo to you helps you hear things your eyes would normally miss. Trust me, it REALLY helps!
Additionally, CTRL+F is your friend. When I first started listening to my promos, I noticed that I used the word "clearly" a LOT. Curious, I searched for the word and saw that, between dialogue and narrative, I used that one word a full DOZEN times. Way too much! So I changed at least half of them to something else or simply deleted the word. That certainly helped me with that particular issue of repeating myself. Now, Sar saying "literally" fifteen times and using 1k words to make an unpleasant analogy about someone she doesn't like is a totally different story 😉
Redundancy is one of my curses too, and I find myself cracking a thesyarus every time I write to look up replacements for words I've used 500 times on one page
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Post by "Burned in Blood" Konrad Raab on Mar 10, 2020 1:42:10 GMT -5
Thank you all for suggestions given to me. Before I did the RP for the CH/battle royal match, I looked on google to see if there was an add on for open office to read my RP's aloud. Turns out there was so I downloaded the add on for Open Office and then once it was installed on Open Office, I used readaloud text for that RP.
Hope it worked alright even if the results don't match them (Never expected to win the battle royal cos I suck at them along with my lack of creativity and confidence for them and Rumble RP's, which is why I avoid them altogether, unless it's for storyline reasons or in this case, have to be in one so don't be surprised if I don't enter the Massive Melee match) and I use grammery for grammar errors which I do pay for because there wasn't ones for free that pinpoints my errors in full.
Sorry to be annoying lately, just I want to improve my RP's so badly and get frustrated easily when I don't understand things because of my learning difficulty (Which I do want to do a thread, regarding that here so you guys know about my struggles more). I will tone it down a lot more, going forward. I thank everyone who's helped and been patient with me.
Look out for a PM this week, Tempest. Sorry I didn't get to you about it earlier. Just got caught up in other things.
(Never expected to win the battle royal cos I suck at them along with my lack of creativity and confidence for them and Rumble RP's, which is why I avoid them altogether, unless it's for storyline reasons or in this case, have to be in one so don't be surprised if I don't enter the Massive Melee match)
I've been meaning to chime in on this for a bit and keep getting distracted. You have a track record of ducking challenges that you lack confidence for, along with a track record of doing well and making improvements once you force yourself to try. Battleground is a good example of this. When you step outside your comfort zone there are certainly growing pains, but there is growth.
We generally do not try to put people in situations where we don't think they have an opportunity to succeed. I encourage you to give the Melee a shot this year.