Speed Posting

[Sench]

Okay, first of all, I wasn't sure where to put this question, so I decided to put it here.

Ahem. I consider myself a pretty good player/writer. I have good grammar, good language, can write posts of varying length and without excessive detail. But I do take a while to post. The problem isn't typing slowly, having to correct my mistakes a lot, not knowing what to write or anything respectable. The thing is, 80% to 95% of the total time I spend on making a post (starting with thinking of a post and ending with sending it) I waste on picking words. I know what I want to write, but I can never pick the words that I feel would express my opinion best, even when they all mean almost the same thing.

I didn't think this was a problem in the past, but I recently got into a new 1x1 roleplay. I'd say we're on about the same level in writing. There are two differences. One, their posts contain a bunch of typos, but that isn't really a problem since I often skip right over them. Two, they take fifteen to forty minutes to reply, while I take forty minutes to over two hours to do so, when our posts are of the same length/quality. My partner hadn't said anything about it, but it's really bothering me.

So, any tips on being able to put your thoughts into text faster?

[LSunday]

http://writeordie.com/

Use that for practice. (The free online version, in the sidebar) What I always find is that to other people, it will be the same regardless of which of the 30 synonyms you choose for any given phrase. What you have to do is force yourself to not be as picky.

It's basically the same thing as when you read your own stuff a few days later, and want to put a massive red X with DO OVER written all over everything. The tool I linked is one way to do it.