#I think I've done it well with say Jeanne - where her power gap by now is so stupid large

[soulstagger]

Thinking on how writing in rp differs from a proper fic or story. Given its a two way street that relies on both people sharing and making use of each other's halves of the story. Even in threads were someone is very clearly having to lead or steer the story, being in positions of control or action.

Lewd threads can fall into this pit a little, the active and reactive sides aren't giving each other enough to keep moving the thread forward. But I've noticed in tense scenes, scary or action wise, people often fail to use what's given to each other to progress the scene.

Especially where there's clear differences in who controls the scene and/or power scales. Emotional barriers as well can fall for this, a matter someone being indifferent to something or someone being beneath them.

Just because something doesn't work or what someone says doesn't mean anything to a muse, it doesn't mean in the reply it shouldn't be accounted for. It needs to be felt/known how it doesn't connect, how it didn't work, how it doesn't matter.

You can write an oppressive control, a power gap, or even indifference to a emotional plea/bait meant to trigger aggression. Without it coming across as utterly ignored to your writing partner, while still having it dismissed in the thread itself.

Failing to be aware of this often leads into those loss of communications that result in threads going slightly awry or losing their direction. If a lamp fell on someone in a thread, you wouldn't just not mention they side stepped it, failing to do so would imply a lamp hit them. How can someone know the intent if its not written.

This isn't a rant or anything, its just looking back on stuff I've written and seeing where I can improve so that people don't feel lost in a thread.