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Post by Guillotine (QDT) on Apr 28, 2019 22:19:43 GMT -5
So it’s half 3 am my time and I need to be up for work in just over 4 hours... but I can’t sleep after the hype and laughs of Havoc. Hoping posting this might help me.
Forgive me if this comes across as annoying, Tony Robbins-esque motivational speaker bullshit but I hope it helps at least someone.
I’ve been in e-feds since 1998 (fuck I’m old!) and experienced a gamut of emotions. In e-wrestling, I’m sure many of us have felt -
# miffed that results have gone against us # like we’re writing lots of shit but no one is reading # like no one cares about our characters and angles # jealous at others’ wins, likes, respect, acclaim # as though no one wants to work with us creatively # that we are seriously inferior quality wise # that we will never get better
These feelings are normal I think. I’ve felt most of these, even very recently. I’m under no illusions - even though QDT just had his breakout match and is finally getting on people’s radar, I am probably gonna encounter these feelings again.
Relate to this? My advice, for what it’s worth -
# They are just feelings. Don’t take them too seriously. You may be WAY off base and perceiving negativity that just isn’t true. # Be humble. You might have rocked your 2012 poetry class but there’s insane talent here. Don’t envy, learn from. # You might never be a top star here. That’s just reality. However EVERYONE is capable of establishing a quality niche that is rewarding both in terms of personal enjoyment and what you offer to others here. The fed is set up with rewards aplenty. You “only” gonna be 201 Champion level? Be the best 201 Champion you can be (just a random example haha). Focus more on the rewards than the “failures”. # Shift your perspective if you can. This is a game. There’s a biblical phrase ‘guard your heart’. Don’t let this stuff make you bitter and twisted. Keep the smooth, leave the rough at the door. # Having a ferociously competitive mindset is good but primary motivations should be to live up to your own expectations, have fun and express yourself IMHO. Try to focus on writing stuff you’re proud of. If you are consciously or subconsciously judging your own efforts, chances are you’ll find external feedback hard because your internal dialogue is subtly or not so subtly even worse. # Keep going! You might just need a breakout moment. People are generally busy and consumed with their own writing (not a criticism, just human nature). Maybe you did a shitty RP months ago that put them off you, perhaps they dislike your character’s name, maybe you aren’t their buddy yet. Current lack of interest in you isn’t always reflective of your current performance. You never know when people will start seeing your qualities. A lot of times progress in popularity is exponential. # Keep committed to improving. You may feel miles off but sometimes there’s just a small thing that needs clicking into place to really get you up a level. # If you know your biggest weakness (i.e. shoot, character development, description, dialogue etc.), find people who do it well and study the heck out of them. # READ! This is hard for me as I am not a prolific reader. But reading RPs and other literature is vital. # Find something deep within you that your character stands for or doesn’t stand for that you share in common. For me, as a Christian l write totally opposite to my core beliefs as QDT in that he is a nihilist who doesn’t believe in love, meaning, truth etc. This is quite powerful actually; I depict that mindset as a critique. However, I really admire and want to incorporate some of his total lack of self doubt into myself. He’s quite psychologically astute and this is something that interests me. Find common ground; even if it’s working in binaries. You hate superficiality? Try being as vacuous as fuck to parody it. But do try to give them a quality you can at least admire, and vice versa. Don’t write someone totally alien to who you are as it won’t work. # Shoot is crucial. Work out clever ways of incorporating it in as opposed to a standard block of dialogue text. # Finally, be warm, a giver and an encourager OOC. Lift up rather then knock down. Get involved. It does help as people will be more likely to read your stuff if they like you. It makes people more comfortable to create stories with you. And it’s really frickin enjoyable. There’s absolute diamonds here... and you truly bring that to the fore when you see the diamond in them rather than the dirt on them. We all got plenty of dirt as imperfect humans; focus on the good in other writers OOC here and that’s mostly what you’ll get back atcha.
Any more advice? I’m especially interested in inspiring anecdotes of people who used to struggle more and have improved or grew in stature here or overcome hard times in e-wrestling. Please do share.
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Post by Derrick Vayden on Apr 28, 2019 22:48:00 GMT -5
Real talk, I was feeling all of this before our match. Seeing that amazing RP you turned in after only working on it for three hours, barely beating the deadline? I was freaking out. All the people predicting you to win somewhat discouraged me, because I knew they all were right. I wasn’t mad at all, just kinda down on myself. You are absolutely phenomenal, brother. But like you said, change perspectives. Instead of being discouraged by the impending loss, I felt proud with my RP, win or lose. I decided to just let whatever happened happen and had fun with it. Seeing just how close the match turned out and the fun we had reacting to it, it only made me motivated to get better and better. So thank you. I hope we can do it again sometime soon
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Post by Torture on Apr 28, 2019 23:46:57 GMT -5
..Seeing just how close the match turned out and the fun we had reacting to it, it only made me motivated to get better and better. So thank you. I just want to add to this, real fast. Because this is true. You see, when Me and Gravedigger decided to be serious and run an efed, we wanted to reward great writers and good writers and even normal average writers who are moms, dads, students, full time employees, etc even when they lose. In real wrestling, its on the announcers to put guys over even in losses, right? So we wanted to use that same formula and bring it to Action Wrestling. If you ever lose, pay attention to the announcers, pay attention to the story thats unfolding. It's not 100%, but more or less 90% of the matches have a story in its finish and post-match. I do this on purpose to sort of give the writer and its character some sort of momentum, some sort of direction without communicating in whole. You, specifically for your 201 match, you WERE close, you were very close and so we put that over in the match, and we put that over in the finish. If anyone feels down about a loss or anything just pay attention to what the announcers say, they'll either reference you being close, or mention the other guy.. that should give you a good reason to go back to the drawing board and either really work on something or remind you that you're doing well it just wasn't your night. Like GD always says "Sometimes it aint you that sucks, its just the other guy was better." and I fucking LOVE that quote. ----- I just want to use an example ----- Karlie Nash late in 2018 was in a really good competitive match and I can't remember specifics, but the match was close so I ran the finish with the ref maybe fast counting, or someone had their foot on the ropes and the ref didn't see it. It gave that person the clear win (based on RPs) but also told Karlie, dude you were close so its not exactly a clean win - and what did Karlie do without ever talking to me? Started roasting the fuck out of AW refs on the IT boards, felt like AW was screwing her, so we ran a story with her every week in which Torture/Camila kept reminding her and the viewers that Karlie wasn't screwed it was a simple mistake - and lo and behold, every week after that or at least every meaningful match after that for like 3 months Karlie was screwed out of some matches, then some how which resulted in her FINALLY receiving a FAIR title match against Holliday or someone. But that's what I'm talking about - Karlie took that initial loss, noticed the finish of the ref making a mistake and used it to fuel her character and it added a layer and some depth. And we did that without ever talking (her and I) and we did that just organically. That's what AW is all about.. .. Which now brings me to QDT's point. Action Wrestling isn't for the hyper-competitive super shooters of the west (or WCF's "golden era"), sure you can be that and find a lot of success, but it's also about bringing stories out, having great moments, finding your spot on the card and making it your own. Theres plenty of opportunity. L Verez, Karlie Nash, SJW, TFK, Jaice Wilds, Shadowlove all found World Championship matches (all of them legit too, none of them angled), and they did that because they found a spot with their character and began to dig deep in it. You know the two biggest storylines since January? Was BK vs FS, Corey Black as Doom Squad chasing Jaice, and Kidsgrove and Dandy. That's a US title storyline, a Masked Terrorist storyline, and two stables.. notice how the World Championship is barely even recognized in those three? (Lockhart frustrations aside)* that's because guys found their dancing partner, or found a way to create something without needing to be super successful or having to be hyper-competitive and win all the time. Hell, Kidsgrove and Dandy cost each other matches to new signups, allowing their characters to lose just to further their storyline! ANd the best part? Is that neither of them (which was just stated tonight between the three of us) have a clue on how this got so god damn personal and so god damn bloody. And thats what AW is really about, showcasing two writers who found their characters soul purpose, found a true rival and are pushing each other but in a fun and grounding way. I'll bring up Spencer Adams and Shadowlove too, and this is no knock on them, they'll tell you that their PPV wins and losses are not a good number... but know what? They're main eventers. Spencer continues to have great stories he constantly works with writers to elevate them and push them the exact same with Shadowlove. Look at Shadowlove in the Rumble? NvL has to take time away so he got his justice/revenge on NvL for the last few weeks, eliminated him, and then eliminated another 5 superstars, had a great number of eliminations in the rumble, had a ton of great spots.. and even went face to face with Holmes, Odin, and a few others, and I know 100% Shadowlove is going to use all of that momentum, reload the pistol and shoot again this week, and the next week, and the next week and he'll be on PPV cards every month - because thats what great writers with their great characters do - Find little nuggets and push it forward, and thats where AW helps you, pushes you, and gives you direction.
Anyways, its been a long day, beers, Havoc momentum, etc, I love all of you guys, and QDT has a lot of great points and I just wanted to coattail with some AW perspective!
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Post by Shadowlove on Apr 29, 2019 1:14:53 GMT -5
Actually, Tort, I’m announcing my retirement. Just kidding. Everything that Torture has brought up tells you how great AW has become.
You shouldn’t let the predictions discourage you or be down on yourself, you put out a very good role-play against the one of the best in the 201 & Fun and almost pulled out a victory. It’s good seeing how people were reacting to your match live on discord made you motivated to do better, I don’t think you would’ve had that reaction if you were just reading your match in the results section.
Damn you Tort for bring Shadow up again as an example. You’re ruining my unstellar reputation. Just kidding. I’m humbled and honored at the same time that Shadowlove can be used as an inspiration for those to follow.
I’ve been doing Shadow for a little over 3 years now and in that time I’ve won only one TV Championship. Not because I wanted to win the TV Championship just because some said it couldn’t be done with a low word count, as you know, low word counts aren’t my forte. I was a one hit wonder but proved that I could win a low word count match if I wanted.
I haven’t worried if my character’s been getting shots or not getting shots at championships on a weekly basis, it’s the thrill of the chase and knowing that I’ve put in the work character wise to be just as respectable just as much as a World Champion. I’ve gone mano-e-mano and toe-to-toe with some of the best writers that I’ve seen, some victorious and some not so victorious. That’s always been the measuring stick that I’ve used for Shadow. And now, there’s an aura of Shadow having a cult following, no, I’m not going to be a cult leader cliché, I’m talking about Shadow’s cult of personality following.
Unintentionally, I sort of turned Shadow into a Tommy Dreamer-esque kind of character. You know, how Dreamer would face Raven but could never quite beat him but you always cheered for him anyways in ECW?
I wasn’t too concerned with how Shadow would perform in the Rumble, I already had my shot at Ryan at Clash of Champions, (and yes, I know why I loss to Ryan, you’re lucky I didn’t pull two role-plays out of my arse, my friend. lol).
But I digress, even without having the spots I had in the Rumble, I would’ve been happy with my performance. Battle Royals in e-fedding are designed to refresh your character and help push them along in a different direction storyline wise. Find that right opponent that makes you both better in the long run.
Shadow and NvL would’ve been one helluva feud, our characters are complete opposites, we both were setting up to put on a show, but the real world unfortunately intervened.
But there are plenty of storylines that people other than Shadow can have to help push their character forward and capitalize on their situation. You just have to have the patience and due diligence and follow The Shadowlove Rule, ( damn, you @6ix6od6hark. lol)
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Post by Hazel Overton on Apr 29, 2019 2:01:22 GMT -5
Guess I took the predictions hard before the Havoc Rumble. Every fed I've been in, I've always ended up being a low card wrestler at best. I don't know if that's because my writing has declined for the past 10 years or because no one is truly invested in my characters. I'm also highly critical of my own writing so when no one is invested I get confused on where to go. I ask for feedback and get nothing. I'm not even sure if I'll ever be a top talent again.
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Post by Lockhart on Apr 29, 2019 2:44:26 GMT -5
I'd say just try and get what you want out of the game. If you want to satisfy a competitive urge, do that. If you want to improve your writing, do it. If you like wrestling and want to put on an entertaining feud, do it.
I myself am a mix of the above three, if I wasn't true to myself and tried too hard to be solely story based or solely competitive based, I'd get bored, burned out and probably end up leaving. That's why AW is good, it caters to what you want to do.
Also keep in mind this is a game of progression. Some may start off at a higher level than others, but no-one is unbeatable and everyone had to work to get better.
Wade had to go through a few characters before he became this monster main-event level writer. Spencer grinded away for months, absorbing as much knowledge as he could. You read his work from his early days at WCF and compare it to now and he is a completely different writer who has improved immensely. I myself struggled in my first few feds and even after I was experienced, I still wasn't one of the top dogs over at WCF. Everyone develops at different rates. If you have the desire to improve, just do your best to write weekly and work on areas of your game little by little. And as Tort mentioned, results aren't indicative of a characters reputation and status on the card. If you're telling a story, doing your best as a RPer, and having fun? It'll show, your work will be rewarded in one way or another.
I know some of this might seem like bullshit coming from such a record centric character like Ryan, but it's just that. A character. OOC I know that I could lose at Evolution, go on a slump, but if I'm still RPing consistently and showing Tort I give a fuck through segment work and all that stuff? He won't forget about me, he'll reward the hard work.
So yeah, that's my take. Whatever you want from this game, just go for it and make yourself happy. It's supposed to be enjoyable, after all.
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Post by Guillotine (QDT) on Apr 29, 2019 4:33:21 GMT -5
Real talk, I was feeling all of this before our match. Seeing that amazing RP you turned in after only working on it for three hours, barely beating the deadline? I was freaking out. All the people predicting you to win somewhat discouraged me, because I knew they all were right. I wasn’t mad at all, just kinda down on myself. You are absolutely phenomenal, brother. But like you said, change perspectives. Instead of being discouraged by the impending loss, I felt proud with my RP, win or lose. I decided to just let whatever happened happen and had fun with it. Seeing just how close the match turned out and the fun we had reacting to it, it only made me motivated to get better and better. So thank you. I hope we can do it again sometime soon It was such fine margins between us. You ACED the character side. I maybe spent more of the RP focused on the shoot aspect but I needed to be creative with that to stand a chance. I've learnt a lot about the 700 word discipline since late October when I started. I lost the belt to Wasabi a couple of months back. I tried to be over elaborate and dedicated too much time to peripheral character stuff rather than weaving it into my shoot. It was a wake up call because I was uncharacteristically happy with my RP but lost because Wasabi was more straight to the point, spoke about his motivations and so on. The character progression of someone in the 201 division potentially has to be a bit slower, more measured and subtly intertwined with shoot. You're smart and talented enough to make that work but I almost think it'd be a waste as you're so especially gifted on the character side that I feel you need more words to do that proper justice. Our match was nuts man. It was so fun in the chat with you and the others. Really looking forward to seeing what Derrick does next in AW. Thanks also for being so gracious and good humoured.
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Post by Guillotine (QDT) on Apr 29, 2019 4:41:32 GMT -5
Guess I took the predictions hard before the Havoc Rumble. Every fed I've been in, I've always ended up being a low card wrestler at best. I don't know if that's because my writing has declined for the past 10 years or because no one is truly invested in my characters. I'm also highly critical of my own writing so when no one is invested I get confused on where to go. I ask for feedback and get nothing. I'm not even sure if I'll ever be a top talent again. I literally created this very thread with you primarily in mind. Please read it again if you want to. Then read what Torture said again. Read again Dandy's feedback to you on the other thread. People care about you here and we want to care more about your character. I've seen far less naturally talented people than you improve, find their feet and rise high up the card over the course of my 20 year on and off e-wrestling "career". I want to see you become another good news story. I'm rooting for you. (Please don't take that condescendingly, I am being sincere) As for asking for feedback, apologies. Been a very busy time and I'm not great with giving feedback to anyone. Hopefully I can do this for you over the coming days as time permits.
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Post by Guillotine (QDT) on Apr 29, 2019 4:45:18 GMT -5
P.S. guys, sorry to spam 3 replies in a row but I've pulled out of work this morning I only got 2 hours of sleep due to a hyper brain and skin problems I'm experiencing. THANKFULLY I remembered I'm working a full day on my usual day off of Saturday so I could have the luxury of taking most of today off besides a few important emails. That's the benefit of having a flexible hours job where I pretty much manage my own schedule.
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Post by Gravedigger on Apr 29, 2019 4:59:04 GMT -5
Guess I took the predictions hard before the Havoc Rumble. Every fed I've been in, I've always ended up being a low card wrestler at best. I don't know if that's because my writing has declined for the past 10 years or because no one is truly invested in my characters. I'm also highly critical of my own writing so when no one is invested I get confused on where to go. I ask for feedback and get nothing. I'm not even sure if I'll ever be a top talent again. No one should ever take the predictions hard. They're nothing more than the person's opinion and I feel like most of the time they're just making a gut reaction to the match and didn't actually read everyone's RP for the match and really think about it objectively. Another trend you'll notice a lot of the time is people predicting their friends or stablemates to always win. Human nature. I had a period of time where I was on a huge win streak and was winning every week and it was also during a world title run and every single week I was picked against by over 90% of the people in the predictions thread. It was frustrating, but it just goes to show that it's just people's opinion and their opinions are not the same as those of the people judging the matches. Take Havoc Rumble for example, which may be a bad example with the sheer number of people in it, but only two people in the predictions thread got 2 of the final 4 predicted correctly. Your frustrations were probably more over the TV title predictions, but just making a point here. Just remember that the predictions are the opinions of the handlers and not reflective of your work. I rarely got involved in predictions threads in other feds I was in because at that time I didn't have the time to read everyone's RPs. I seriously doubt that more than 3-4 people outside of Torture and myself really read everyone's RPs in full for Havoc. The combined word count for all RPs for Havoc (including the two title matches) were easily over 100k in content (rough estimate). Finally, don't take the feedback issue to heart either. It's not necessarily something against you as people just may not have time or they see your thread but are busy at the moment but then forget.
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Post by Dandy DiVito on Apr 29, 2019 8:03:11 GMT -5
Guess I took the predictions hard before the Havoc Rumble. Every fed I've been in, I've always ended up being a low card wrestler at best. I don't know if that's because my writing has declined for the past 10 years or because no one is truly invested in my characters. I'm also highly critical of my own writing so when no one is invested I get confused on where to go. I ask for feedback and get nothing. I'm not even sure if I'll ever be a top talent again. I think most feedback threads get zero responses, so don’t take that too hard. The rest of it though, like Tort said, find someone to work with and go hog wild in that niche. You write on the shorter side of things, right? Why not put Hazel in 201 and explore that division? Perfectly legit place to complete (QDT is an excellent example there!). I don’t think we’re ragging on you or intending to blow you off or be mean. It’s just a matter of finding the spark that sets the fire and stoking that shit from here to the end of the world. Godspeed, Hazel.
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Post by Dandy DiVito on Apr 29, 2019 8:05:58 GMT -5
Take Havoc Rumble for example, which may be a bad example with the sheer number of people in it, but only two people in the predictions thread got 2 of the final 4 predicted correctly. Don’t forget my genius ass picked the whole thing right!
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Post by Spencer Adams on Apr 29, 2019 11:08:49 GMT -5
Guess I took the predictions hard before the Havoc Rumble. Every fed I've been in, I've always ended up being a low card wrestler at best. I don't know if that's because my writing has declined for the past 10 years or because no one is truly invested in my characters. I'm also highly critical of my own writing so when no one is invested I get confused on where to go. I ask for feedback and get nothing. I'm not even sure if I'll ever be a top talent again. So awhile back I had posted a thread detailing a breakdown for a general path to improvement. I think it's still stickied on here? Either way, I'd be glad to echo some of the sentiments of people in here as well as add to the discussion. A thread of this nature sort of intended for you or others feeling in the same boat should never be taken negatively. What it's saying I believe is that we hear you're frustrated, how can we help? The art of "getting over" or just getting further in general is complicated. I can count on one hand the number of people I've encountered who are bad at this and I don't think you're one of them. Truth be told, aside from a rumbling or two or your recent expressions of feeling down on things, I probably never would've known you were discontent. At the end of the day, AW cares about the handler. We want everybody out here to eat. If we're being blunt and really breaking it down, the character will always be secondary to the person behind it. One of the biggest things I hear in recruitment is all this focus on who/what to be and it's like..we want people. We do the occasional podcast, we have an exceptionally active OOC, and we have an insanely active/friendly/productive official facebook chat on top of it. The biggest thing to note here is that this IS a "boy's club", but different than how you'd define it before. We're the god damn Olive Garden. When you're here, you're family. We sincerely love the fact that you picked us as a fed and I think hospitality is the gratitude we want to give for that. Onto the constructive bits, I think the key is continuing to voice more desire for things. Again, without you saying something, I'd have continued thinking you were comfortable showing up to RP and that's it. Maybe that's still the case to a degree, I don't know. I do know that you get out of this what you put in. As Lock sort of alluded to, I ACTUALLY sucked when I started out in this hobby. My first roleplay ever was literally this: "(Spotlights come on in an interview like space to reveal Spencer Adams) Hi I'm Spencer Adams. Most of you may not know me but I am the newest member of the NOW roster. I am here to make a mark and live my dream of wrestling in NOW. I promise to bring great sportsmanship and technical wrestling ability to the ring. I aspire to be a great champion like many before me which of course wouldn't be possible up to this point without the help of the fans or James Duthie. NOW is where I will reach greatness. (spotlights fade)" I'm not here to stroke my ego, I just know I can give myself as an example, because really, even if you see yourself as lower card right now, you decide your own ceiling. I'm not naturally or technically as good at writing as Wade Moor/Ryan Lockhart types (to name a couple), but I love this place and I love this hobby, so I bust my ass to kick out the best work I can and try to match the highest level I can. Not to say you aren't doing the same, but try to identify what makes work from guys like those two so top tier and try to capture that yourself to the best of you. If you prefer a niche like 201, look at QDT and find out WHY he's so good. You can rock it here in AW and I 100% want you to. Yes, this is a casual place in a lot of ways. I've seen RP limits of 10k and longer, ridiculous shit nobody should be expected to hit week in and week out just to hold a place. Here, everyone has a place, but we're also very passionate in Action Wrestling and we care a lot about how we can contribute to the experience. If you have some questions, ask. If you want further direction, please feel free to message Torture any time you're in search of that direction. I don't know if this helps, I hope it does. My PMs are always open as well.
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Post by Gravedigger on Apr 29, 2019 12:02:26 GMT -5
I re-stickied the post you're talking about Spencer.
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Post by Wade Moor on Apr 29, 2019 12:09:09 GMT -5
As someone who had to absolutely scrape and claw, I can echo all of these sentiments.
My efed “career” hasn’t always been the easiest and there’s been plenty of times where I’ve felt like calling it quits but I decided very early on that I didn’t want to do anything but improve. Working with others, listening to valuable feedback, and applying it to my work not only gave me confidence in my writing but it gave me confidence in life too. It can be a struggle at times but eventually the struggle ends, or lessens over time.
Admittedly I’m pretty lazy at answering blanket feedback requests on the boards, but my pm box is always open if you want to bend my ear! I’ll more than likely answer you if you come straight to me. This is an invitation for everyone, top of the card to the newcomers! I like to think of myself as a “locker room leader” so I’m here for you if you need it!
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Post by Jaice Wilds on Apr 29, 2019 13:42:14 GMT -5
Guess I took the predictions hard before the Havoc Rumble. Every fed I've been in, I've always ended up being a low card wrestler at best. I don't know if that's because my writing has declined for the past 10 years or because no one is truly invested in my characters. I'm also highly critical of my own writing so when no one is invested I get confused on where to go. I ask for feedback and get nothing. I'm not even sure if I'll ever be a top talent again. Honestly, if my work schedule hadn't been so ridiculous as of late, I would be trying to give feedback. Because I have seen first-hand what it can do for people. Take, for example, Karlie Nash. This time last year, I could hardly stand to read her rp's because they read off like bland fanboy lezzie riffs. I could see that there was SOMETHING deeper in there, but it got lost in the shuffle. I told Karlie's handler via a feedback thread that she needs to flesh out her character more; next thing I know, I am legitimately looking forward to Nash rp's. I will be doing my damndest to set time aside to give feedback more often, because it's getting clear that a lot of people are stuck on what to do. And even for us vets of this game (15 years!) there are times that we stumble and try grasping at straws. Hell, Tort gave me the World Title push and I honestly wasn't entirely sure I was ready. I got my 2nd opportunity and felt shitty at first because I thought I wrote an epic rp, but read the whole match and saw how close it was for them. I think QDT is on the money. Everyone just needs to find their niche and roll with it. This is first and foremost a GAME. Forget titles and accolades; if you aren't having FUN, there's no point.
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Post by Jaice Wilds on Apr 29, 2019 13:48:53 GMT -5
Real talk, I was feeling all of this before our match. Seeing that amazing RP you turned in after only working on it for three hours, barely beating the deadline? I was freaking out. All the people predicting you to win somewhat discouraged me, because I knew they all were right. I wasn’t mad at all, just kinda down on myself. You are absolutely phenomenal, brother. But like you said, change perspectives. Instead of being discouraged by the impending loss, I felt proud with my RP, win or lose. I decided to just let whatever happened happen and had fun with it. Seeing just how close the match turned out and the fun we had reacting to it, it only made me motivated to get better and better. So thank you. I hope we can do it again sometime soon Like I said in my prediction reply; it was a close call for ME. And I'm not even a judge. Only reason I gave it to QDT was because he's been on a dominating roll as of late; and momentum like that usually builds on itself both in and out of character. I honestly believe you have the chops to unseat QDT (I love you, tho!!); just have to keep pushing. Enjoy what you do, and everyone else will, too.
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Post by Guillotine (QDT) on Apr 29, 2019 14:16:42 GMT -5
Real talk, I was feeling all of this before our match. Seeing that amazing RP you turned in after only working on it for three hours, barely beating the deadline? I was freaking out. All the people predicting you to win somewhat discouraged me, because I knew they all were right. I wasn’t mad at all, just kinda down on myself. You are absolutely phenomenal, brother. But like you said, change perspectives. Instead of being discouraged by the impending loss, I felt proud with my RP, win or lose. I decided to just let whatever happened happen and had fun with it. Seeing just how close the match turned out and the fun we had reacting to it, it only made me motivated to get better and better. So thank you. I hope we can do it again sometime soon I honestly believe you have the chops to unseat QDT QFT! (Quoted For Truth not Quixote Fella Torre )
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Post by Beau Del Sol on Apr 29, 2019 16:47:26 GMT -5
AW is great for niches. The staff here “gets it”. Perfect example is ZMAC. I feel like anywhere else he would have to clean his RPs up in terms of dialect and some shoot but it’s his niche and what he’s known for with that character.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2019 23:07:13 GMT -5
Bake your bread...
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