Why I don't do Novel Style RPs

[Anonymous Posting "Reasons"]

I'm going to say this to start. I think it's some grade A bullshit how many people probably pass over my RP lists simply because my length is only in the multi-hundreds of words per side, rather than the multi-thousands. However, this is not a call out. Instead it's an explanation.

I'm going to explain why I don't do Novel lengths anymore. Yes. Believe it or not, I actually did. 

The simple reason is that it's a lot of nothing. Novel length posts can work. Okay? They totally can. It's just more often than not people I've roleplayed with who write over a thousand words per side, it becomes clear that they only accomplish that length by adding a ton of "fluff" to sort of boost their numbers up. 

Literally every, "Novel" Style Partner I've had will have a post where half of it is just non-sense, that adds nothing to the RP. It's like one time this partner I had spent five paragraphs describing her characters hair. A guy partner I had would make posts of over 2,000 words in length just talking about his character's feelings.

Okay...so how does that take the RP anywhere? That's my problem. For me...it doesn't. I get replies like that, and my first instinct is to try and filter out all of the stuff that's meaningless, and look for "What can I actually make a reply to?"

And I'm not bashing on details! I love details, but I don't need to see an entire post about your OC's feelings, when you could've summed it up in 1 or 2 paragraphs.

Going back to my first part, I really do think it's some judgmental bullshit about how picky "Novel" roleplayers are on length. Some of the best friends I've made are people who write like 1/5th of what I feel comfortable putting out. I saw that they were into series that I was into, and so instead of judging them prematurely I reached out, to be friends. Add in here that more than one of them has since improved their writing skills, because they wanted to be a better partner for me to have. I'm sure that many Novel Roleplayers would find some great friends if the majority of them weren't so bitter about length. 

I mean if there's a series you love, and the one person who can RP it only writes 400 words per side, is it that big of a deal-breaker? 

Anyway this is not a call out. I'm not calling out anyone in specific. Just my personal thoughts, and opinion towards Novel length roleplayers.  I do stress this is just my personal opinion. You're free to agree, disagree, half-agree, not care, whatever. 

I just really needed to get this off my chest. 

[Mischievous Minx]

I'm not a fan of the novel style, either. Although my own reasonings differ from your own, I do continue to partake it because as you mentioned you do get overlooked if you don't write in novella style. This is unfair as you again mentioned, but I think the reason is that most think more content is a good thing when it can be both overwhelming, but also makes responding a chore.

[songo88]

i can't do Novella either mostly because I'm not the type of person who feels like a roleplay needs to be a book i'm also at a point where I think trying to find roleplay partner here is just not working because I don't do novels 

[♛ justanothertale ♛]

I prefer just sticking to two paragraphs or three nowadays. Although, I'm a sucker for details which can often lead to novella style length. As for other people, I believe it's more of a preference of what someone likes.