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Pre-Show Stalwart
Numbers Austin Reynolds
Here we go; I very much enjoy how youve done some of your homework. By calling someone a head nurse of a unit, classic job there man. It shows that you put a great deal of time into making your role-plays connect to the read. By the way, a head nurse in the states is most usually referred to as a Charge Nurse, just a heads up as Im married to a RN.
I noticed that in one of Austins speech parts that you leave out a word, the line is
I read it and knew exactly what you meant but being careful as I read your role-play since Im doing a review on it I do notice it very obviously.
As for the nurses speech parts, I get the feeling that you were relying on the nurse to be the voice of the doctor. Which I know is exactly how it is in most cases, however when speaking of brain activity I feel that the nurse probably wouldve said that the doctor is happen with his level of brain activity. Trust me; I know that doctors explaining things to patients usually only happens on T.V. Anne here didnt actually say anything wrong and its just a feeling that I have. Also with reducing the sedatives maybe she wouldve said the doctor has put in the order to slowly reduce his sedatives and monitor what happens.
The file at the end of Doms bed doesnt exist anymore. Charts are no longer kept inside of the patients room due to confidentially reasons. She wouldve either walked in with the chart in hand or had to leave the room to annotate something in it. More and more charts for patients are becoming computer based, so she wouldve more than likely had to leave the room, some hospitals do employ laptops for their nurses to do the electronic charting.
Okay that was just for your opening. I liked it very much regardless of what Ive stated up above. You did an excellent job researching your topic and writing about it and I commend you for that, I feel that most people just make things up without trying to connect to the reader what so ever anymore. My comments above are simple things that will truly make no difference in the way your role-play is judged due to the fact that some of the stuff isnt exactly common knowledge.
Its dinner time, onto the meat and potatoes of your role-play. Outstanding, really; I greatly enjoyed the back and forth between Austin and Gordito. You throw in a little action between the speaking parts and I like that, you get that you want to connect with the reader and show them that through not only words but actions. It was a good read; I enjoyed myself and found myself rooting for Austin and Gordito to take the match, way to go.
The Crock Sam Smith
In the beginning I started liking this role-play, and then I saw that the excerpt from an article was just placed there. You made it seem as though the Smiths were reading it but then there is no mention of that at all, its just there. Im not a fan of people using stuff in the opening of their role-plays that arent actually tied into the role-play in a major way. It was an article, perhaps you couldve had Scott fold up a paper and wipe his ass with it, whatever, just something to show how it connects to the role-play other than through the words of the characters.
Then I noticed that your action sentences arent very emotional. They dont evoke any emotion from the reader or the character for that matter. Sam ignored what Scott had to say, did he? Why should anyone care that he ignored his brother? Did he roll his eyes when Scott told him to calm the drinking down? Did Sam glare at his brother? Or was he just stone faced? Details make that emotional connection, if your character doesnt feel any emotion than neither will the reader, and if that doesnt happen the role-play will come off as being very bland, and who knows it could be the greatest promo ever spoken but the emotional tether isnt there.
Upon further reading, from the excerpt that you gave us, its apparent that Sam didnt catch onto the message, while that can be a good thing; I get a feeling that it wasnt intentional that he didnt catch on.
More ignoring on Sams part, unfortunately the ignoring hes doing isnt of just his brother but of his emotions. I can tell by the words that youre using that hes pissed off and drunk, what I cant tell is how Sam truly feels. People react to things, if theyre offended they react, if theyre happy they react. I believe that you got caught up in what Sam was going to say that you complete negated the reactions he should be having. For future reference, this is a very bad thing. Like Ive being saying lately in these reviews, connecting to the reader is key.
I do like what little interaction there is between the brothers and your speech parts are very well written. I have zero complaints about any of that. My only criticism that I can offer you is that your actions need to be more detailed. Give Sam some visible personality otherwise hes going to end up like Lance Storm.
FunKay D. Wolfwood Steven Holmes
Okay the opening to this one to me felt like a dream sequence. The scene is written well which works in your advantage; however I think I wouldve preferred it to have been a led conversation. Led by Kurtesy, telling him about Toyotas backside and telling him to try avoiding the moment in his mind and what not, showing actions that only Steven can actually see doesnt do anything for me.
The interactions between Holmes and Kurtesy is good, youve done a good job at getting their relationship across. Youre action paragraphs are too far and few between for my liking. I feel that Steven was probably smiling when he woke up but there was nothing like that. As a matter of fact the majority of the actions phases are about Kurtesy and his reactions to Holmes. Steven needed some more actions, besides the dream sequence there at the beginning, Steven literally only does four things, open his eyes, shakes hands with Kurtesy, hug Kurtesy, and leave the office with a smile. Kurtesy has most of the action after the dream sequence and that makes this feel almost as if it was a Kurtesy promo.
The speech phases save that though, they return the promo to being about Steven Holmes. And this is what I wouldve liked to have seen during that dream sequence. Kurtesy leads the conversation by asking about Holmes feelings and reactions, too bad we dont get to see those reactions.
You modified what Im going to call your catch phrase, to fit into this role-play. I liked it a little bit; the placement was good it doesnt always have to be what ends a promo. However, I feel it couldve been a bit better. Quote time!
You couldve changed Im to just I and added was right before simply and it wouldve been better. Or try this?
Watch your spelling, its not defence, its defense. I know youre usually very good about spelling things properly and I know that we all make mistakes here and there. So this is just a heads up to watch your spelling, take a moment to go over your role-play and make sure everything is spelt right.
The role-play is good, there is decent interaction between the two characters in it. Not enough action or emotion being displayed for my liking. One thing I notice though is that some things you put in there could be said better by adding a word, subtracting a word, or changing the order of the sentence around. Keep an eye out for this, impact can still be maybe by the sentence and if you change it just a little it can possibly make a bigger impact.
Over all not a bad role-play, youve definitely gotten better since you started in WZCW and while you can get worse I dont see that happening to you at all, youve only got upward to look forward to.
Here we go; I very much enjoy how youve done some of your homework. By calling someone a head nurse of a unit, classic job there man. It shows that you put a great deal of time into making your role-plays connect to the read. By the way, a head nurse in the states is most usually referred to as a Charge Nurse, just a heads up as Im married to a RN.
I noticed that in one of Austins speech parts that you leave out a word, the line is
I always liked just going out there and feeding off the energy that fans .
I read it and knew exactly what you meant but being careful as I read your role-play since Im doing a review on it I do notice it very obviously.
As for the nurses speech parts, I get the feeling that you were relying on the nurse to be the voice of the doctor. Which I know is exactly how it is in most cases, however when speaking of brain activity I feel that the nurse probably wouldve said that the doctor is happen with his level of brain activity. Trust me; I know that doctors explaining things to patients usually only happens on T.V. Anne here didnt actually say anything wrong and its just a feeling that I have. Also with reducing the sedatives maybe she wouldve said the doctor has put in the order to slowly reduce his sedatives and monitor what happens.
The file at the end of Doms bed doesnt exist anymore. Charts are no longer kept inside of the patients room due to confidentially reasons. She wouldve either walked in with the chart in hand or had to leave the room to annotate something in it. More and more charts for patients are becoming computer based, so she wouldve more than likely had to leave the room, some hospitals do employ laptops for their nurses to do the electronic charting.
Okay that was just for your opening. I liked it very much regardless of what Ive stated up above. You did an excellent job researching your topic and writing about it and I commend you for that, I feel that most people just make things up without trying to connect to the reader what so ever anymore. My comments above are simple things that will truly make no difference in the way your role-play is judged due to the fact that some of the stuff isnt exactly common knowledge.
Its dinner time, onto the meat and potatoes of your role-play. Outstanding, really; I greatly enjoyed the back and forth between Austin and Gordito. You throw in a little action between the speaking parts and I like that, you get that you want to connect with the reader and show them that through not only words but actions. It was a good read; I enjoyed myself and found myself rooting for Austin and Gordito to take the match, way to go.
The Crock Sam Smith
In the beginning I started liking this role-play, and then I saw that the excerpt from an article was just placed there. You made it seem as though the Smiths were reading it but then there is no mention of that at all, its just there. Im not a fan of people using stuff in the opening of their role-plays that arent actually tied into the role-play in a major way. It was an article, perhaps you couldve had Scott fold up a paper and wipe his ass with it, whatever, just something to show how it connects to the role-play other than through the words of the characters.
Then I noticed that your action sentences arent very emotional. They dont evoke any emotion from the reader or the character for that matter. Sam ignored what Scott had to say, did he? Why should anyone care that he ignored his brother? Did he roll his eyes when Scott told him to calm the drinking down? Did Sam glare at his brother? Or was he just stone faced? Details make that emotional connection, if your character doesnt feel any emotion than neither will the reader, and if that doesnt happen the role-play will come off as being very bland, and who knows it could be the greatest promo ever spoken but the emotional tether isnt there.
Upon further reading, from the excerpt that you gave us, its apparent that Sam didnt catch onto the message, while that can be a good thing; I get a feeling that it wasnt intentional that he didnt catch on.
More ignoring on Sams part, unfortunately the ignoring hes doing isnt of just his brother but of his emotions. I can tell by the words that youre using that hes pissed off and drunk, what I cant tell is how Sam truly feels. People react to things, if theyre offended they react, if theyre happy they react. I believe that you got caught up in what Sam was going to say that you complete negated the reactions he should be having. For future reference, this is a very bad thing. Like Ive being saying lately in these reviews, connecting to the reader is key.
I do like what little interaction there is between the brothers and your speech parts are very well written. I have zero complaints about any of that. My only criticism that I can offer you is that your actions need to be more detailed. Give Sam some visible personality otherwise hes going to end up like Lance Storm.
FunKay D. Wolfwood Steven Holmes
Okay the opening to this one to me felt like a dream sequence. The scene is written well which works in your advantage; however I think I wouldve preferred it to have been a led conversation. Led by Kurtesy, telling him about Toyotas backside and telling him to try avoiding the moment in his mind and what not, showing actions that only Steven can actually see doesnt do anything for me.
The interactions between Holmes and Kurtesy is good, youve done a good job at getting their relationship across. Youre action paragraphs are too far and few between for my liking. I feel that Steven was probably smiling when he woke up but there was nothing like that. As a matter of fact the majority of the actions phases are about Kurtesy and his reactions to Holmes. Steven needed some more actions, besides the dream sequence there at the beginning, Steven literally only does four things, open his eyes, shakes hands with Kurtesy, hug Kurtesy, and leave the office with a smile. Kurtesy has most of the action after the dream sequence and that makes this feel almost as if it was a Kurtesy promo.
The speech phases save that though, they return the promo to being about Steven Holmes. And this is what I wouldve liked to have seen during that dream sequence. Kurtesy leads the conversation by asking about Holmes feelings and reactions, too bad we dont get to see those reactions.
You modified what Im going to call your catch phrase, to fit into this role-play. I liked it a little bit; the placement was good it doesnt always have to be what ends a promo. However, I feel it couldve been a bit better. Quote time!
I will start to prove once and for all that I am the Elite in WZCW and that Im simply born better
You couldve changed Im to just I and added was right before simply and it wouldve been better. Or try this?
I will start to prove once and for all that I am the Elite in WZCW because I was simply born better.
Watch your spelling, its not defence, its defense. I know youre usually very good about spelling things properly and I know that we all make mistakes here and there. So this is just a heads up to watch your spelling, take a moment to go over your role-play and make sure everything is spelt right.
The role-play is good, there is decent interaction between the two characters in it. Not enough action or emotion being displayed for my liking. One thing I notice though is that some things you put in there could be said better by adding a word, subtracting a word, or changing the order of the sentence around. Keep an eye out for this, impact can still be maybe by the sentence and if you change it just a little it can possibly make a bigger impact.
Over all not a bad role-play, youve definitely gotten better since you started in WZCW and while you can get worse I dont see that happening to you at all, youve only got upward to look forward to.