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Post by Kennedy Matthews on Apr 30, 2019 1:20:24 GMT -5
I truly felt like I had a top 10 RP and when I wasn't top 10 in the results I was a little disappointed.. Im not gonna give up... I have ideas to work with
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2019 1:43:42 GMT -5
I truly felt like I had a top 10 RP and when I wasn't top 10 in the results I was a little disappointed.. Im not gonna give up... I have ideas to work with Damn straight!
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Post by Odin Balfore on Apr 30, 2019 16:43:20 GMT -5
only 2 of my guys finished top 15. this is bullshit.
*flips table*
tort and GD are racists, facists,. cis-genered homo-thugs for the patriarchy.
*rabble rabble rabble *
in real talk, everyones doing amazing.
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Post by Shadowlove on Apr 30, 2019 17:31:55 GMT -5
I truly felt like I had a top 10 RP and when I wasn't top 10 in the results I was a little disappointed.. Im not gonna give up... I have ideas to work with You shouldn’t be disappointed at all about your performance, you wrote a very good role-play and were very competitive as was everyone else in Havoc. I was predicted to be a Top 7 finisher and finished outside the Top 10, so that kind of tells you how competitive that Havoc was this year. Kennedy Matthews remains a very strong character in AW, and I’m looking forward to seeing the heat that will come from a possible Kennedy Matthews vs. Lissie Hope match.
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Post by Casey Holliday on May 1, 2019 21:09:59 GMT -5
I am going to add something to the conversation here. As established in the WCF closure thread, I was there in 2014 with a different character. I was EASILY discouraged by everything: lack of feedback, prediction threads, lack of attention or the wrong kind of attention, and so forth. My character did do well from a win-loss standpoint, but couldn't get over. It frustrated and discouraged me and eventually, it embittered me to the point where I walked out on the place multiple times. I even remember writing this long "fuck you" PM of sorts to Seth when I left the second time vowing that I would never be part of the fed/community again. (Well, I never did rejoin WCF but I was wrong on the community part).
December 2016, on the good word of two former friends, I joined UCI with Casey after her original fed was kind of a nightmare for her (and this was prior to word count limits becoming a thing). It was there, with this character, and with this group of writers (which some did come from WCF) where everything finally started to click. I had to leave 8 months later due to stuff, but when AW came around and I happened to need somewhere for Casey to be, here she came, knowing she had some success with this same group before. The rest is history.
The point being that for some people with this community, especially with the massive depth of talented writers we have here, success doesn't come overnight. It sure as hell didn't for me. It took me multiple tries and as it turns out, a change in attitude and perspective on my end. As it turns out, that character wasn't meant for WCF/this community as a whole. I knew I had the ability (I mean, 13-4 in WCF isn't a bad record at all), but I had the wrong perspective and the wrong character. Then, I thought I had it all figured out (I didn't) because that character was my best thing ever and she was amazing (so I thought... but turns out she wasn't lol). Now? Well, the run I've had here and the Havoc match speaks for itself. I'm 5 years older and 5 years better (as a writer) and Casey has turned out to be a much better fit for this community than that other character ever was.
I'm not the only one with this sort of road. Other examples include QDT (Brent Alpine in WCF, who I remember had struggled to be over somewhat at that time) and Wade Moor (who was Colin Marshall...not a bad character overall, but the handler had struggles trying to figure him out from what I remember) who hit walls at first, but have found their niche. And really, finding your niche (regardless of whether you switch to another character or maintain the same one) is what matters at the end of the day. That character I had in WCF? She wouldn't have finished in the top 10 or even the top 15 in the Havoc rumble. But I found what works around here with Casey and I am beyond happy with that.
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Post by Guillotine (QDT) on May 1, 2019 21:38:49 GMT -5
I am going to add something to the conversation here. As established in the WCF closure thread, I was there in 2014 with a different character. I was EASILY discouraged by everything: lack of feedback, prediction threads, lack of attention or the wrong kind of attention, and so forth. My character did do well from a win-loss standpoint, but couldn't get over. It frustrated and discouraged me and eventually, it embittered me to the point where I walked out on the place multiple times. I even remember writing this long "fuck you" PM of sorts to Seth when I left the second time vowing that I would never be part of the fed/community again. (Well, I never did rejoin WCF but I was wrong on the community part). December 2016, on the good word of two former friends, I joined UCI with Casey after her original fed was kind of a nightmare for her (and this was prior to word count limits becoming a thing). It was there, with this character, and with this group of writers (which some did come from WCF) where everything finally started to click. I had to leave 8 months later due to stuff, but when AW came around and I happened to need somewhere for Casey to be, here she came, knowing she had some success with this same group before. The rest is history. The point being that for some people with this community, especially with the massive depth of talented writers we have here, success doesn't come overnight. It sure as hell didn't for me. It took me multiple tries and as it turns out, a change in attitude and perspective on my end. As it turns out, that character wasn't meant for WCF/this community as a whole. I knew I had the ability (I mean, 13-4 in WCF isn't a bad record at all), but I had the wrong perspective and the wrong character. Then, I thought I had it all figured out (I didn't) because that character was my best thing ever and she was amazing (so I thought... but turns out she wasn't lol). Now? Well, the run I've had here and the Havoc match speaks for itself. I'm 5 years older and 5 years better (as a writer) and Casey has turned out to be a much better fit for this community than that other character ever was. I'm not the only one with this sort of road. Other examples include QDT (Brent Alpine in WCF, who I remember had struggled to be over somewhat at that time) and Wade Moor (who was Colin Marshall...not a bad character overall, but the handler had struggles trying to figure him out from what I remember) who hit walls at first, but have found their niche. And really, finding your niche (regardless of whether you switch to another character or maintain the same one) is what matters at the end of the day. That character I had in WCF? She wouldn't have finished in the top 10 or even the top 15 in the Havoc rumble. But I found what works around here with Casey and I am beyond happy with that. Fantastic. Awesome stuff, Casey. I truly believe there will be one or two people in similar situations as we were who will have a similar metamorphosis down the line. Sometimes all it takes is a bit of a perspective shift or just good old fashioned time, though there's a lot of wisdom within this thread and elsewhere by some experienced writers here which could prove helpful to some.
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