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[motosada]

I believe the term is "win-win situation".

[OrochiGeese]

joe said:

Posting, LAWLz

Its my weekend off from work, so we might actually - GASP! - get more updated biographies posted in the next day or two. I think we can all agree this is a good thing.

That makes me very very happy ^_______________________^

And your efforts might also motivate me to update MY bios as well. Cause um...Alicia Gordon's narrative in her bio hasn't been updated SINCE SHE DEBUTED And Holly's isn't much better off. I did put in "update notes" for both women but the narrative itself is years behind. I...I should rectify that ;D

[Joe Snack Road]

Yuk.

I got started writing bios and realized how HORRIBLY OUT OF DATE a majority of them are.

So, uhm...

Yeah.

[OrochiGeese]

Yeah,

I should get to updating mine. Alicia and Holly's are painfully and EMBARRASSINGLY out of date. And while Geese isn't Joshi, his bio is another example of one I haven't updated since major stuff happened. I wrote the bulk of Alicia's bio BEFORE she ever debuted in OG-Joshi. So I never really kept up with it as exciting things were happening for her. Holly's bio was written during a calm period in her career and then updated later during other calm periods. She...she hasn't had a "calm" period since she started with Jo Ryder!!

Its just hard for me to worry about updating bios constantly since I'd rather be creating the content for them rather then writing about their past. I figure thats really the main reason for why any of the OG-Joshi bios aren't as up to date as they could be. We're all more interested in creating present/future content, and rightly so!! Any creative energy I have for a character I usually prefer to turn it into an RP for them

Also I set myself up to fail in this case cause I originally insisted on writing novel-like bios for my characters. Now I feel kinda bad just summing up new events so i tend to put it off until I have energy...which, as I said, ends up turning into RP's!! So it's an endless cycle of shame...the best kind of cycles ;D

...well, next to unicycles, that is. Those are cool

[Joe Snack Road]

With OG-Joshi being the only really active e-fed about now, I am in that HUUUGE down swing of having to be creative (which is nice, because I'm thisclose to becoming the Electronic Arts of RP writing)... and I want to update a couple of bios.

I play around with the idea of retconning a character and entering him into another e-fed outside of our sphere of influence. Change the name, rework his moveset... and see if the same antics would get him over. I think this could work - ENDLESSLY. Just change things up after a few years, recycle the same promos, get over for teh same reasons...

ITS BRILLIANT!

[OrochiGeese]

LOL, that sounds like the EA of e-wrestling

Change Jenny's history to remove any references of our e-fed circle...but still have her personality intact. Kinda like "alternate dimension" Jenny! And then just substitute new opponent/ally names for her new promos in another fed

Actually, that may be MORE work then EA puts into its sequels/spin-offs

And I welcome any bio updates from any of us (including me...that damn slacker!). But if you guys would rather use your creative energy for RP's, then that really works just fine with me. It's up to you guys, really. Bio updates are cool as well, but just use the rule of thumb of where you feel your creativity taking you

Actually...that's a BAD rule of thumb: cause 9 out of 10 times, MY creativity takes me to Goose antics

[motosada]

I didn't really spend a lot of time updating mine. I just abridged them, to give a good generalization of who the person is, and update it just a bit with current angles. Kaori's took me long until I just decided "fuck it, man!" and cut out all the crap. After all, if someone wants to see all that, it's still up at the old OG-Joshi boards, and probably at the NDP boards, too.

[OrochiGeese]

I was "grappling" with this issue last night (get it.."grappling"...OG-Joshi wrestling...ahh forget it!) and thought of what may be a good compromise for updating MY bios. There's just no way I'm gonna want to take the creative time away from RP's and show writing to update Holly and Alicia's bios in the same way that I started writing them. It's just not gonna happen cause I already perceive it as a chore. So what I think I'll do is give "annual updates" to reflect each year. A general paragraph and then some highlights. If I do that for each year missing, i think that should work out while not being too time consuming for me.

[Joe Snack Road]

What I've decided to do (to ease the bio writing stress) is to split the biography: You get a professional version (bascially, wrestler's history in OG-Joshi for the "new to the game" kiddos) and then the personal version, which is pretty much "So, whereyafrom?"

Thinking about it, it made sense: the personal bio won't get updated too much, unless a character makes a OMFUX DRASTIC change - a heel/face turn, for example. The professional bio is teh one that matters, and that is one you can kind of ignore for stretches at a time - or maybe Ms. Melancholy is just spinning her wheels so you don't feel the need to update her professional bio every few weeks because it'd read "12 Apr. - Jobbed again." or somesuch.

[OrochiGeese]

I think that sounds like a really good and manageable idea

Split the bio writing duty among two parts that are updated at different times. Once you put in the work for the personal part, you don't have to do that much else except for big changes. And while the professional part can be updated more frequently, the updates aren't necessarily as big or hard to write

I just have to decide what to do for Holly, Alicia, and Geese (totally unrelated to OG-Joshi but his bio is the most outdated out of all the ones I have. I don't even know if it has "CHAOS" mentioned!! )

I don't want to erase what I have but I suppose I can split it from here on out into those two categories. If I just force myself not to be needlessly specific, the "personal" bio shouldn't HAVE to take me hours to catch up on. I just have to realize that the real SPECIFIC parts are in the actual RP's and shows. So there's no need for me to put it all down, but just document it. We'll see if I can keep to that

[OrochiGeese]

OMG! Month later update!

Thanks to Joe's excellent idea, I just finished a totally new version of OrochiGeese's bio! I split it into "Personality" and "Career" and it seems to be very manageable. It should be pretty easy to update as well. I didn't even use any of the old "second by second" bio from PW-W (which was literally 2 years out of date). But I think it will work for OG and for both Holly and Alicia when I get around to doing theirs.

I'll probably post OG's bio sometime this weekend after Voltage

[Joe Snack Road]

admin said:

OMG! Month later update! :o

Thanks to Joe's excellent idea, I just finished a totally new version of OrochiGeese's bio! I split it into "Personality" and "Career" and it seems to be very manageable. It should be pretty easy to update as well. I didn't even use any of the old "second by second" bio from PW-W (which was literally 2 years out of date). But I think it will work for OG and for both Holly and Alicia when I get around to doing theirs.

I'll probably post OG's bio sometime this weekend after Voltage :)

It works quite well - I just haven't been smrt and posted any yet.

When you cut it apart, you can tell what's important about your character (Where they're from, gloss over small details of schooling, homelife, past, etc.) and then you can tell about their career (Which can be summarized pretty well for some of the lengthier timed wrestlers... and doesn't need to be too much longer than an intro for newer ones.)

[OrochiGeese]

joe said:

It works quite well - I just haven't been smrt and posted any yet.

When you cut it apart, you can tell what's important about your character (Where they're from, gloss over small details of schooling, homelife, past, etc.) and then you can tell about their career (Which can be summarized pretty well for some of the lengthier timed wrestlers... and doesn't need to be too much longer than an intro for newer ones.)

Keina: "PLZ TO BE MORE SMRT AND POST BIOS FOR KENTA!"

Seriously, though, you hit the nail on the head. And what just struck me is how well these concept bios work in eliminating/glossing over certain details, just like you mentioned. Now the cool thing is, those details can actually be given by completing one of your handy McPro style Chapter 25 bios! So if someone decides to do one of those as well, then it really compliments the kind of bio we are looking for.

So I think we definitely have a means to capture every aspect of a character using varied means. But wow, the new bio format works SO well for OrochiGeese. Pity I didn't start using it a bit earlier for some of my other new wrestlers, but the new ones aren't as big a problem (yet) cause I don't have a load of backstory for them. When things get out of hand there, then I can just convert to the new format as I did for OG.

[OrochiGeese]

New OG Bio!

New style and none of the fat!

I figure I'll do something similar for Holly and Alicia. Some of the new OG-Joshi and UBL wrestlers of mine can have the old school bios for now as I think it helps get them over when they really haven't officially debuted yet. But these things are always works in progress so I can switch to the OG style bio for them later too.

[motosada]

Yanno what? The message board promo-thing? Unorthodox, but I liked it.