Post by Ron Weasley on May 31, 2008 15:36:54 GMT -5
Hullo!
Firstly, welcome to Hallows and Horcruxes. I'm glad you've decided to join us, and I hope you have patience enough to hang about and try and take to heart (with a grain of salt, always) what we've got to say about your character.
If you think we were too mean, let us know; I offer my full apologies if you feel that way. It is never our intention to belittle or degrade anyone, and the comments we make are meant not to change a character but to define it. Only on a few rare occasions do we ask for something to be omitted or changed, such as blood purity, house, year, and perhaps some special abilities that canonically are too rare for more than one person to have.
I am not sure if anyone, even accepted members here at H&H, are aware that in the long months that we have been open, we have only denied two or three applications. These were usually denied due to plagiarism or character challenges. We have never turned any applications away for being short, incomplete, Mary Sue, or missing parts. If you see an application in the archives, it's because the member left, not because we here at the staff denied it.
I don't want you to feel discouraged because I am asking you for so much from your character. 'What's the point?' I had someone once say. 'I thought when you RP that is when you are supposed to build your character.' This is very true, and I couldn't agree more. However, I am firm in the belief that you should know enough about your character going into that RP that when another character asks yours a question, they will be able to answer it and know why they answered it that way, and answer all questions in a consistent fashion. Ron can't start acting like a Slytherin because his personality isn't like that, and yes, while a canon example, your original character (and yes, even unknown canon characters) should have that same kind of development.
What I think most people feel is, when they audition here and get a reply back that they don't like, dejected. They feel like they weren't good enough to get accepted on the first try so they give up and leave. Please! Don't think like that! I have ever desire to help you, to pose you questions to answer about your character to get it to be as though your character were intended to be a canon. It is my greatest wish as the administrator of this board to see everyone's character blossom as Harry did but without having to write seven books to get there. I know the questions, I have the tricks and tips, and most of the time I have really great ideas based on yours to help you write a really awesome character.
My point is, I want this to be a letter to the people who have already gotten feedback who feel put-out because I or someone else found something that goes against our rules (like Purebloods without a decent explanation into family ties), or have asked you to go into more detail about your character. Most of the time we're just looking for a little flesh to add to the bones of your character, so that you'll have more than a skeleton of a someone to play with. I've said for a long time that you paint a picture with your words, and if you don't give me, the reader, the details you have in your mind about your character, then I will either make the wrong assumptions about your character (which usually makes people mad), or I don't have enough of a picture to even get an idea in my head.
I hope you have taken something away from this, I really do, and I also hope that my message will strengthen your hope that with a little patience on your end that you will be accepted, you will have fun, and that you will be apart of our kicking little corner of the internet.
Cheers!
Hannah, aka Ron
Firstly, welcome to Hallows and Horcruxes. I'm glad you've decided to join us, and I hope you have patience enough to hang about and try and take to heart (with a grain of salt, always) what we've got to say about your character.
If you think we were too mean, let us know; I offer my full apologies if you feel that way. It is never our intention to belittle or degrade anyone, and the comments we make are meant not to change a character but to define it. Only on a few rare occasions do we ask for something to be omitted or changed, such as blood purity, house, year, and perhaps some special abilities that canonically are too rare for more than one person to have.
I am not sure if anyone, even accepted members here at H&H, are aware that in the long months that we have been open, we have only denied two or three applications. These were usually denied due to plagiarism or character challenges. We have never turned any applications away for being short, incomplete, Mary Sue, or missing parts. If you see an application in the archives, it's because the member left, not because we here at the staff denied it.
I don't want you to feel discouraged because I am asking you for so much from your character. 'What's the point?' I had someone once say. 'I thought when you RP that is when you are supposed to build your character.' This is very true, and I couldn't agree more. However, I am firm in the belief that you should know enough about your character going into that RP that when another character asks yours a question, they will be able to answer it and know why they answered it that way, and answer all questions in a consistent fashion. Ron can't start acting like a Slytherin because his personality isn't like that, and yes, while a canon example, your original character (and yes, even unknown canon characters) should have that same kind of development.
What I think most people feel is, when they audition here and get a reply back that they don't like, dejected. They feel like they weren't good enough to get accepted on the first try so they give up and leave. Please! Don't think like that! I have ever desire to help you, to pose you questions to answer about your character to get it to be as though your character were intended to be a canon. It is my greatest wish as the administrator of this board to see everyone's character blossom as Harry did but without having to write seven books to get there. I know the questions, I have the tricks and tips, and most of the time I have really great ideas based on yours to help you write a really awesome character.
My point is, I want this to be a letter to the people who have already gotten feedback who feel put-out because I or someone else found something that goes against our rules (like Purebloods without a decent explanation into family ties), or have asked you to go into more detail about your character. Most of the time we're just looking for a little flesh to add to the bones of your character, so that you'll have more than a skeleton of a someone to play with. I've said for a long time that you paint a picture with your words, and if you don't give me, the reader, the details you have in your mind about your character, then I will either make the wrong assumptions about your character (which usually makes people mad), or I don't have enough of a picture to even get an idea in my head.
I hope you have taken something away from this, I really do, and I also hope that my message will strengthen your hope that with a little patience on your end that you will be accepted, you will have fun, and that you will be apart of our kicking little corner of the internet.
Cheers!
Hannah, aka Ron