I generally feel the most confident that I've gotten my ideas across in my solos. There I can lay out a whole encapsulated story knowing that its me and only me affecting the variables. Of course some of them don't end the way I've intended, and sometimes I'll stop writing and delete whole sections, realizing exactly what Sliver would do and not me, but those ones are usually the areas I feel the most impressed with myself at the end when I turn them in for grading. That being said solos usually aren't as fulfilling as participating with other people. After all Miz is one giant writing community, and so in those situations, especially with more than one person, I just try to portray Sliver as accurately as possible while going with the flow of the thread, wherever it might take me. Generally if I've completed or participated in a thread that has some nice imagery, a bit of humor, and a bit of sorrow in it I'm content with the end result, no matter what the XP or reward is, if I'm more excited about how others will enjoy reading a thread than i am with the XP gain, then I try to think I've done something correctly. I think for n ST, there are different yet parallel goals to that of the PC. In then end its really about enjoying yourself and helping others enjoy it, which I think you're doing quite well. Long winding plots ftw. |