<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=156288.msg7307544#msg7307544">Quote from: Caitlin on 30-11-2012, 21:22:25</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I read all of Apocalypse's posts yes, but you might be surprised to learn that time is a very rare commodity for me. I'm tied up in so many projects that it's just not funny. In past games that I organised I ran up to 6 characters simultaneously without a problem, but I don't have that much time anymore. I'm only active in 2 games on E as it is. <br/><br/>My novel will be published tomorrow, so after that I'll have a bit more time again, but I still have another deadline halfway December for E's anthology project, and I need to rewrite my entire story for that too. On top of all that, I also need to get more active with marketing my novels since we're getting close to the Christmas period, and I still have a full time job to do as well, next to a social life, and several other hobbies.<br/><br/>Even though I can write very fast, my reading skills are very slow, and it takes me a lot of time to go through all the posts. I don't see myself having enough spare time to catch up on all those threads.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I understand Caitlyn, it was more of a suggestion. Trust me, I know all about crunched time. I have a spouse and two children as well as a full time job where I work 80 hours in a nine day span every two weeks. I am lucky to get one hour on E a night during those work days (and usually try to catch up on my long weekend).<br/><br/>I'm not trying to tell you what to do with your time. And I understand that for some people, writing can be more fun than reading other people's posts if your muse is hungry to express. I think what Crash and others were trying to say is that when you said here in the public OOC that you don't have much time - yet your character is cranking out posts at double or triple the speed of others (and not short posts either, mind you). It just makes us slightly skeptical.<br/><br/>And unless you don't re-read over your posts to edit them after you write them, then there is<em>no way</em>that reading someone else's posts takes longer than writing your own. Cause reading (especially skimming) takes less than five minutes per posts (if that on some of the shorter ones), while writing a post and re-reading/editing it takes at least ten minutes (unless its very short).<br/><br/>You don't have to give me an excuse why you aren't reading the other threads. It's not mandatory to do so. It's advised, but I understand that not everyone has the time to do so. Nor am I asking you to take on additional characters. You are free to do with your time as you wish, so long as you meet the requirements posted for this game.<br/><br/>To eliminate much of the confusion I'm going to go through and more clearly define the game requirements in both the Recruitment and Main Directory, and then post them here in a GM update so that they will definitely be seen and everyone can re-evaluate and make sure they are in compliance with what this game is asking for in regards to participation.