So I’ve calmed down a bit from last night. (Thank you to those who offered words of love. I appreciate them, even if I seemed like I ignored them and didn’t reply.) And now I feel like I want to actually take a bit of time and tackle the thing about purple prose and why people may not want to roleplay with those who write it. Please keep in mind that I’m not attacking purple prose or anyone who writes it. I’m not bashing a writing style. I’m going to point out the problems that I (and likely many others) have with it.
Please don’t send me hate, or anyone else hate.
When I was a kid in elementary school, which was grades 2 through 5, we would get vocabulary lists, which were basically lists of words we had to learn for the week or month, usually week. It was our weekly homework to look up each word, write out the definition, and use it in a sentence correctly. In this way, we learned first, how to look words up in a dictionary, and two, how to use those words. We also learned grammar. Rule structure. Parts of speech. Consistently, every year. Nouns, verbs, adverbs, subjects, adjectives, conjunctions, punctuation, and how to use it.
I bring this up to sort of set the foundation for what I’m trying to say, I think, and to illustrate that I know what I’m talking about. I may not have a degree in creative writing, but I have written professionally for a company website or two, and I do know how to write.