Emoting 101 by Head Mistress Syn

	Greatest sins of emoting: abbreviations, switching between first- and third person.
Using terms like “lol”, “hru” and generally lazy sentences are a big no-no when it comes to emoting, especially if you wish to catch someone’s interest. Another important thing to consider is picking a point of view and sticking with it – for example:
“/me dances her sultry gaze from the bulge in your pants up towards your eyes, slowly yet determinedly scouting that delicious body while squeezing the cold metal pole in between her plump cheeks, grinding down into a squat.” – Here I refer to myself in third person and my partner in second person.

“/me feel my lips curl into a sinister grin as that sexy man parks his firm boy butt down in front of me. Slowly, I swing around the pole in an attempt to show off my thick butt, making sure that each motion would spark his interest.” – Here I refer to myself in first person and my partner in third person.

Personally, I tend to stick with myself in third person and usual refer to someone in second person, meaning that I refer to Syn as “she” and the partner as “you”. You may also refer to your avatar in first person “I”, and the person you’re emoting with either as “you” (second person) or “he/she” (third person).

It’s fine to mix between them as long as you keep it consistent during the emoting or roleplay itself. Switching mid-action is usually very confusing and should be avoided.

	What is emoting? Roleplaying? Differences?

Emoting is used to portray action taken by your avatar. It can be anything from something simple like a cough to a more complex maneuver like swinging around a pole while checking some fine ass out, it all really depends on your vocabulary and imagination. When expecting money for your emoting or roleplaying, or whenever you’re doing it as a job, then you _have_ to be as descriptive as possible!

Roleplaying on the other hand is when you’re playing out a constructed persona set around certain parameters, have predisposed feelings and often some sort of story arch to play out. Sure, you might be here roleplaying as a stripper and there are many who claims we’re all just playing roles… but in order to make this simple and avoid the philosophy class I will assume we’re all ourselves, out of character.

	Descriptive and realistic emoting.

I already touched on what emoting is and I used coughing and swinging around a pole as two examples of what an emote could be. Now, there are (according to me) 2 ways of emoting… A simple and more casual way, and a serious and descriptive way.
Someone approaches and stuffs some money down your skirt? Let’s start with the casual one: “/me giggles as she dances around the pole, thanking you for the money” – This wasn’t very exciting was it? I’d avoid ever dropping lines like that one when getting paid for emoting.

And now to how I think all of you should do it: “/me blushes as you recklessly stuff that hundred down her skimpy skirt, giggling underneath each of her heavy breaths before wrapping a few petite digits around the metal pole… swinging graciously around it in a single impressive motion before blowing you a wet kiss.” Through being descriptive and more detailed I could say the exact same thing I did before, but in a much better way! It doesn’t even have to be an entire book, one or two paragraphs can be fine as well, especially if you’re a bit nervous about your ability.

Short and sweet is often the key in all sorts of emoting, both as a stripper and escort.

The best advice I have to you despite your proficiency with the English language is to simply stop for a brief moment and picture yourself doing something along with *how* you do it, in what way you’re doing it and most importantly, how you want the other person to react! I always try and add a sexy or lewd touch to my emotes when getting in someone’s pants, spark their lust and all that.
Lastly, it always boil down to your imagination and attention to detail when doing creative writing, which is what emoting is at its core.

	Knowing when to engage with someone.

So, now you know how to impress while shaking that ass. You probably sit there writing up sick walls of text to draw that cash money in! Well… hold your horses there for a bit sweetie. Now, instead of standing there wasting your creative writing on people while no one remotely gives a shit about you seems stupid, doesn’t it? And no, you should never have pre-typed out messages that you keep copy-paste spamming, this isn’t hosting 101.

My best advice is to do a lot of so called “idle emoting”. I’d pretty much describe it as writing shorter, descriptive emotes doing perhaps one or two actions at a time… like working the pole in some way and maybe flirting with people around you. When someone takes an interest in you, whether it be through tipping or engaging in talk or emoting themselves, that’s when you break out the big guns and turn that spicy sample into a sexy wall of text! Basically don’t shoot your textual load until someone is interested in you. There is a fine balance between luring people in with sweet words and just throwing them away.

	Idle- and active emoting.

So, I already mentioned what I like to call “idle emoting”, what is active emoting then? Well, that’s when you have established a connection with someone and it’s time to put on a show. For strippers it’s good to do some idle emotes about your dance moves where’s an escort would present her body to all the possible clients.

Remember, these terms are made up by me in order to make things as simple as possible. They are obviously copy written.

	Short and sweet over lengthy uninspired walls of text.

This is also another step building onto the awesome foundation I should’ve provided by now, I just never want you to simply write for the sake of writing. There is no point in doing lengthy emotes if they reuse the same word on 100 occasions in a single action or describe you doing the same thing multiple times.

Avoid: “/me lashes her wet tongue over your wet cock, feeling that wet cockhead spraying her with your manly pre cum.”

Instead: “/me lashes her wet muscle over your pre cum stained shaft, tasting every little bit of that slick delicious liquid coming from your throbbing crown.”

Important! Find synonyms and creative ways around using different words to describe the same thing if you have to in order to avoid it being stale and boring to read.

	How to portray feelings, avoid thoughts and instead express them.
A pet peeve of mine is whenever someone uses an emote to tell me how happy they are. “/me is so happy seeing Caliber get along with the alien lifeform!”

This goes for all emotions. You need to show intent and mood through body language and not just saying it straight out.
“/me leaps happily into the air with her arms flailing excitedly around as Cal seems to get along with the alien lifeform.”
The key element is here is to use adverbs and words to describe how something is done, whether it’ll be the way you shake your ass or if you want to foreshadow a certain action.

	How to talk while emoting

This simple point is just telling you people that in order to clearly differentiate your avatar speaking and going something just put the words in quotation marks. An example. “/me kneels down in front of the altar, those dark eyes weighing heavy on her head as she bow to the floor and whisper to herself… “Your butt is flat.”, before standing back in a fit of maniacal laughter.”