User blog comment:BraveHeart70/Need to be a better Roleplayer: HELP!/@comment-2182964-20141118130930

This sounds familiar. I went through something similar to this towards the end of my Part II storyline and it persisted well into my Part III stories too, eventually resulting in a long period on hiatus.

I wasn't happy with what I was writing, nor with what I had wrote previously. It wasn't just the individual works I posted, but the RP's (battle & story-driven) I did with others, as well.

I thought long and hard about my writing, how I could change things up, how I could improve. But more importantly I thought about how I could get that "spark" back. I started writing notes; didn't matter what, as long as I was writing something. Did a lot of reading too. Then it slowly took form as I really thought about the plot I wrote, and what direction it took. I used to write long, ridiculous plots, that leapt about the place between different characters so much it wasn't even funny. Everything seemed forced to my eye. So I simplified things. Short chapters, with a centralized character, and things started to get better. Everything was plot or character-driven -- nothing happened by accident.

I'm still not at the level I would like, but I'm enjoying what I write now and how I portray my characters, and that old "spark" I had is back in-full.

I don't suggest you go on a period of hiatus like I did, but I do suggest, if it's bothering you, to look at what you've written and ask yourself how you could make it better. It helped me so it may help you too. Not to blow my own horn but the quality of my work has definitely gone up, and I'm enjoying it again too. Experiment with different styles, post a few practice RP's, and ask for feedback. Criticism can help on so many levels. Opinions vary and nothing's perfect, but practice does help.

Hope this helps, dude.