iโve been seeing a lot of people recently complaining about losing motivation to role play / feeling super ooc / or losing the will to write. canon muses or ocโs alike, people have been down in some creative dump everywhere. and i feel like that itโs time that i said something. iโve given advice to some of the people iโve seen but the number keeps growing so i figure iโd make a post about this:
i have been rping for 12+ years now. when i started i didnโt have a care in the world. i was doing what i wanted to do. but then i did start caring about my portrayal and what i was doing. i wanted to do the best i could and shovel out as much as i can. i wanted to try and give my fans what they wanted to see.
this is a huge mistake. and i didnโt really learn it until just a few months ago.
iโve noticed that i tend to feel ooc the most when iโm pushing too hard. when iโve been going for too long or when i force myself to do more than i can. i used to try and reply to things daily. i used to cry a lot because i would get so stressed about being accurate. which admittedly, is both good and bad. it shows that you care about what youโre doing and thatโs good, but at the same time a hobby shouldnโt force you to be down in such a drastic low.
if you start to feel that you canโt write as well, stop. if you start to feel ooc, stop. if you start to feel like youโre doing too much, stop. it doesnโt mean that you have to stop completely by any means! but just donโt do anything. your brain is done. you donโt want to write anymore. you donโt want to role play. your body, your mind, even if itโs subconscious, wants to do something else.
does that mean youโre done forever? no. does that mean youโre actually ooc? absolutely not. it just means that you have lost the luster for that specific day. you can always come back later when you want to role play. when you want to write. i donโt mean take a break. because i know that doesnโt help everyone and it often leads to people never coming back. but, when you feel that you canโt do anything else but write / role play / die without getting a headcanon down on a post, thatโs when you need to come back. when that urge or that desire or that muse hits you.
tl ; dr โย ย if youโre feeling unmotivated for whatever reason, donโt force yourself to keep going. that will make you want to rp less. do it when your mind and body wants you to, and youโll find yourself twice as motivated as you were before. even if that means not being online for two weeks.
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