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Hello everyone!

Lately, I've been feeling like I have lost my touch with RP since I can't seem to find the motivation to RP that much except for a couple of replies to things.

I also feel like I let my RP partners down and that makes this feeling worse.

Can anyone give me any advice on this?

~ Stella

It happens to everyone darling.
Don't get worked up about it. It will eventually pass just means you need a break and some inspiration.

Things fall out for a little while but then they come back.
It happens to the best of us. *Hugs*

Even your partners will experience it so don't worry.

Totally seconding Wise-Owl. We all hit a rough patch or a ditch, and sometimes those unmotivated times won't last a day, or a week, sometimes they can creep up and last months. Don't be freaked out. It happens to everyone. Perhaps you need a break, perhaps some you time might help.

Play it by ear, try new things, stretch your legs, pick up a hobby you stopped doing for a while and maybe didn't realize you stopped in the first place - like read a book, for you, on your own time if you used to.

Remember that if you keep communication open with your roleplay partners and let them know what's up that they'll most likely be open and understanding. We've all been there. Life gets hectic. Don't beat yourself up because something is happening outside of your control.

What Wise Owl said.

This can happen for all kinds of reasons. It could be because something happened to one of your characters, or to a character your partner plays that you love and you wish it had never happened. It could be because you have one play that is not going too well, and you're struggling the most to reply to that one, and it's draining the creativity for all of your other RPs. It could simply be because you have something going on in your life and you need to address that. Maybe it is that you just need to get out of the house and just do something that doesn't involve your computer, or RP at all.

Consider taking a week off, where you don't even look at this site - no matter how tempted you are to do so, don't.
Then at the end of that week, see how you feel. Reassess your RPs and speak with your RP partners, see if there needs to be any kind of change.

When or if you come back after a week, reply only once a day for each of your partners. Maybe you need to stop with only a couple of your plays for a week or so, and focus on the ones that you really love. Only focusing on those ones could help recoup your creative energies so you can go back to the other ones again with renewed ideas and drive.

Do anything you can, but don't just try to force your way through it, because then you run the risk of burning yourself out completely, and a couple of weeks of absence could turn into an absence of months or even years, and you don't want that.

Good luck!

Going on Hiatus helps.
Just take a break from the rps seriously. The people who really matter will understand. People get burnt out on rps and sometimes end up doing drastic things like deleting their entire accounts so just take a break even if it's for a few days you have off.
I had a few weeks where I just couldn't reply and now I am back in the groove and working on replies like normal because I took a break. The biggest thing is communication. Tell people what's going on and they will understand and not leave the rps usually.
Idk if this helps it's just something I do every so often when I loose the motivation. It's rare but it's happens to the best of us. Good luck and I hope you get your groove back.