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any pearls of wisdom for someone second guessing their tags?

i think it's my biggest time sink as a tagger, and it's silly because i rarely change the core of my tag (dialogue, re/action, etc) despite the amount of overthinking i do.

Ask yourself what your motivation is behind the second guessing. Is it a general sense of imposter syndrome about writing your character? Perfectionism over tone or sentence structure? Just anxiety about hitting the 'post comment' button?

That said, as a former(ish) tag overthinker I think the thing that cured me was having a thread partner who wrote me imperfect tags for a thread I was really thirsty for lmao. Don't get me wrong, their writing was excellent but there were always the odd typos and occasional wonky sentence structure... and I realized I didn't give a shit because I was enjoying our thread so much. So I just cut loose with worrying about my own typos and writing weirdness and focused on tagging back faster, because my writing partners probably would rather have my slightly wonky tags 2-3 times a day than once every three days after a lot of polishing and editing.

ty for the reply, anon!

i think framing it as imposter syndrome is probably helpful as it is a lot about characterization. my current character is somewhat out of my usual wheelhouse, so i sometimes feel like i have no idea what i'm doing or have this general feeling akin to a kid playing at adult. (did i just describe imposter syndrome........)

I think you just did...

Do you think canon reviewing or reading up on the character would help? Whether that's doing some research into their job or rereading the wiki page for the series, or maybe even some fanfic that you like for characterization purposes? Maybe you could do some of those '100 questions to ask about my character' memes to kind of get the brain thinking about the different ways they would react in different situations.

But also! It isn't all that important, so long as you're having fun, your thread partners are having fun, and you're feeling about as reasonably IC as you can be! Heck, even if your characterization is wonky, is the thread still going in a good direction? If so, then (easier said than done) it's fine!!

Just hit the send button and accept your fate, and everyone will have way more fun.

try to imagine your character saying the dialogue, if possible, in their voice

if it sounds plausible hit send, the rest of your tag is just fine

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