The Necessity of CD Threads

[odie1970]

After looking at all the great CD posts, I've come to the conclusion that I am one of the rare few who does -not- enjoy creative writing.

That being said, and by no means wanting to be an exception to the rule, I am wondering if you absolutely -must- post CD threads in order to a) Multi-classing to WM and b) Progressing beyond level 20.

I was never good at it and I find that doing these posts stress me out totally, to the point where it is not fun for me, it is a chore.

Is there another way I can achieve the above two objectives in my time here? Would it be possible for me to co-write a combined CD thread for my character Sabel Silverthorne and her husband?

Like I said, I don't want special privelege, I'm just curious.

Odie

[xXDenizeNXx]

I think , and someone will correct me if I am wrong I hope so as to not give you false information, but I think you can do a CDQ and pending the outcome multi to like wm but for the more exotic prc's i am sure that you cannot get away without a Dev Thread.

[iceyfire]

I dont like writing creatively for my characters but i can write creatively for my stories...
Wierd eh?
I dont know but i get you completely, i just feel at times that i would rather be in the game creating more of a story instead of having to spend time thinking of what to write about in my cd
Guess everyone feel's differently about it and i seriously doubt anyone would get away with not having one when it comes to cdq's and ecdq's.

[Nyralotep]

I absolutely despise creative writing and I empathize with you.  Still I do it when necessary...just not that creative of a person I guess.

[Filatus]

In my opinion you do not have to 'create' the story at all. Your character naturally develops when playing him, he makes new friends who influence him. Most people keep journals, other keep a thread to reflect on the inner thoughts of their character.

But the main point is that in most cases it is only about what happened to the character, a journal. The way you see your character, or the path you wish to take with said character, influences the prespective you take on the things that happened to him.

[Talan Va'lash]

I don't keep a character development thread for any of my characters. As far as character development is concerned, the only thing I will ever post publicly are things that are public IC.  Postings, open letters etc.

I also don't read CD threads.

This is a conscious choice. I don't want people's reactions to my characters to be biased by ooc information, nor do I want to create an opportunity where I might think it is biased by ooc information.  If the ooc information isn't available, their reaction isn't biased by it, end of story.  No "How do you know that?" tells or anything that ruins my immersion.

Conversely, I don't want my reaction to characters to be biased by ooc information about those characters nor do I want to worry and have to double think my reaction to make sure it isn't biased by ooc information.

This is not to say I don't keep my own notes (which are rather sizable by now,) but rarely are they in narrative form. Sometimes I turn bits into narrative for some use or other, but mostly I use the notes to jog my memory so if I need to write a story about it I can write it from my memory.

If I need to provide a DM information about my characters wrt a cdq or other quest or an ECDQ, I'll write up the pertinent information in conversational form (rather than narrative) and send it to them, or use bits and pieces of my own notes (which are not entirely IC, hence why I don't use them verbatim often.)

"i just feel at times that i would rather be in the game creating more of a story instead of having to spend time thinking of what to write about in my cd"

I rather agree with this sentiment most of the time. All of my development happens IG (as opposed to wrting CD stuff about events that happen when I'm logged off) and I'd rather spend time on that than thoroughly documenting what happened the day before in narrative form.

I for one, do enjoy writing, and do write things up in various forms when it is appropriate (most often when my character acctually writes something IG, then I'll write it up in an IC manner.)