Emote skills?

I am new to this. When I looked for jobs, I saw "emote skills" some times.
What is that? Have it some thing to do with voice? Or do you need voice?

Thank you for answer.

In Chat you of course see the things people "saying".
Also you will see "What they are doing" described.
Joe Bloggs : Hello etc.
Joe Bloggs Takes his hat off etc

Note the " : " is missing, this is done by typing /me prior to the action quoted.

Might be more to it than that but that's what I understand of emoting and I use.

Remember I'm a blonde.
Love, June

I think it means "the ability to describe a carnal scene without making too much typo errors".

This. If you are a dancer, you need to emote some of your 'moves' in an enticing way, you also need to be able to emote your thank you for tips etc. Best thing to do is go to a club where the dancers emote well and watch them for a while.

Can you tell me about any good clubs for doing this?

I would suggest that you try to find clubs where they think a foreign accent is sexy . . .

Pep ( . . . as your English doesn't appear good enough to emote to EFLers otherwise.)

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You lost me with this response.

Read the OP's initial post.

Pep (It is obvious that English is not their first language.)

ie good at one handed typeing

I think the important skills with emotes are being able to improvise stuff rather than cut and paste it, and knowing that less is, in this context at least, very often more.

One of my main dislikes about a lot of clubs is being spammed by dancers who're obviously using pre-written notecards containing toe-curlingly embarrassing, would-be erotic, descriptions of what they're supposed to be doing. I usually end up muting the poor things just so I'm not disturbed by their endless drivel filling up my screen when I'm trying to talk to someone.

It's one thing to have a crib-sheet of generic ways to greet people, thank them for tips and so on, and when I used to dance I had some notecards of ideas for things to say which I used as an aid to composition if I was stuck for something to write. But my main role as a dancer -- and what got me the tips -- was to interact with the audience, or at least with people who wanted to be involved, and keep them entertained by flirting with them, joking and making them feel involved in the show. Yards of pre-written stuff about how randy /me feels as the cool steel pole moves up and down between her soft lithe thighs and beads of sweat trickle down her smooth back don't really help, at least in my experience.

that's true..might as well be a bot if you are gonna copy and paste..

Short sensual and original sometimes humorous goes farther than writing a book that washes everyone's chat including other dancers emotes..
some may like those long chat washers but most don't want to read a book..you can actually bore them away..

basically if you are new to being a dancer then go to some clubs.. look around the room and listen to other dancers..then say to yourself..how can i better that..
if you are a sensual sexual person in RL all you need to do is learn the basics and then react to what you would actually do in RL if you were with that person..only turn it up bit stronger..
Then describe it to them in a short but detailed way to where they feel it..
keep out the foul language because you can't pull off sensual using terms from a porno..
instead of saying thanks for the tip which to me just kills anything you just said..

describe something like lowering down putting their face in your palm as you ease to their ear giving a little nibble as you whisper with warm swirling breath..thank you bebee ,you're so sweet to me..

try to keep money out of replies as much as possible..

it's kind of like dating..you can be a one night stand just doing what the majority do or you can be the one they wanna come back and see all the time..
you won't have to IM someone to see if they want to come watch you dance..they'll IM you asking if you are in the club..

Basically if you are up there for the money and projecting thats why you are on the stage they will pick up on that..

if you are up there projecting that you are there to enjoy being up there and enjoy communicating and playing around and even getting turned on..they'll feel that..

if it's not fun for you it's going to suck basically.. lol

Ceka is right.. I was at a club the other day and the dancer was bitching about not having enough tips.. Why anyone would assume that this type of behavior is going to get you more tips is beyond me..

I have a friend that would use really short emotes.. Not make you read a Novel.. She was funny in a lot of her emotes, She was sweet and very good at it.. She made 50k per month dancing.. I think it's like Ceka said.. You have to have fun doing it and enjoy it or people will pick up on it.. Don't make it about the money.. You have to make the customer feel like they are the only one in the room..

What Ceka said.. if you're not having fun, the audience won't be, either.

I'm glad I got response to my question.

And some silly remarks as well

I didn't know, " Mr Daniels", that my English had to be flawless in order to work in a club though.

I had a very bad day, and keyboard, when I wrote the first OP.

I've been to some clubs where the host/ess spelling was really, really bad, but it didn't matter at all!

And for the "sexy" part in your remark: How can a foreign accent sound sexy in typo?

I love music and therefore I was looking for a job as a hostess in a music club. But I need, as somebody said, see and learn first.

Why don't you really go for the sympathy vote and tell us you are dyslexic as well?

Pep (Your post merely reinforces my comments.)

What Ceka said. I go to several clubs a week and the girls on the poles mostly talk too much. Less is best. Be direct and friendly, not too excitable or 'in your face' as you may get muted. Guys just sometimes need to watch. Quietness can create mystery. I'll drop tips for the friendliest girl, not those who try too hard. Flirting with the customers is fine, keep it clean and not littered with crass innuendo. Depends on the venue I suppose. The stage players generally need to look a million dollars. So invest the most you can in your looks skin/shape/clothes. Invest your tips into the way you look. If this is your vocation then its a glamour business honey.

Well, I'm not going to apply for a job with a Zelda newbie look

And since, as Mr Daniels correctly remarked, English is not my first language,

and I don't want it to be an obstacle. I'm rather good at English and have no problems

with writing, even though I'm not very fast when it comes to the keyboard.

I'm not dyslectic, just don't have the skill.

Thank you Miss Daines, perhaps you would like to go away and practise and come back when you have acquired the requisite skills for the job. Next!

Pep ("Rather good at English". PMSL.)

Danya

I'm glad you got some helpful replies. I don't know much about this area, but I shouldn't think typos would matter: Typonese, is, after all, SL's universal language.

Please don't be upset by some of the responses in this forum. Those behind them are, I suspect, unhappy individuals with a deep-seated inferiority complex. Being powerless in real life they seek to achieve power by trying to belittle and humiliate others. The ignore button is your friend here.

Francesca (who chose to use the plural, but suspects the cap fits only one head)

If you would like to send along details of your qualifications in remote diagnosis psychiatry we will consider your job application . . .

Pep ( . . . or you could always just continue making yourself look very foolish in public.)

PS Ah, I see you claim to be a sporadic poet; I presume you would believe you have sporadic interludes when you can look into the souls of others, which isn't quite the same thing.

nah, typo errors shows excitment.

Danya...IM me in world. I can help you practice emoting, if you're looking for a dancer job.

(You there, sniggering in the back row: No, this is NOT a pass. It's a serious offer to help with dramatic skills.)

Sorry, bit of a digression here, but I confess I've never understood the point of conventional emoting. How can reverting to the third person:

"Scylla Rhiadra imagines doing unspeakably rude things to your body"

be more "sexy" and effective than the first person:

"I am imagining doing unspeakably rude things to your body."

I see the value of emoting in the third person as a way of maintaining some distance from the RP, but were I a dancer (and maybe this would make me a poor one?), I'd assume that the latter would get me more tips than the former.

Ah, going in that direction. I'll note a pet peeve of my own then.

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2+ people in a room, a stranger walks in.
"Large Ivan licks your ears and asks you how your day was."

Large Ivan is still about 7 meters away from everyone. At the door. Two+ people in the room. Who the bloody heck is you? Does anyone else know this person? Or did Large Ivan lick my ear? Should I emote back "Lexxi Gynoid stiffens as the strange man enters and then tries to lick her ear. Her sharp claws extend, gleaming in the soft light. Twists and springs toward the licker." on the off chance Large Ivan was talking to me?

Well, most of the time I do nothing. Then five minutes pass with no one in the room responding to Large Ivan and he either leaves, repeats the line, or continues the dialogue with, apparently, himself.

(oh, and notice the difference between "licks your ears" with "tries to lick her ear"; "you", whoever that is, has been kept from dodging, responding, keeping that dirty disgusting tongue from her ear - which, of course, can happen if you startle someone, though that wasn't emoted; compared with "springs toward the licker" keeping options open, not emoting the other person's response, etc.).

3rd person emotes describe things outside of me. These are things you would be seeing, hearing, smelling and anything else you can not do through SL.



This is a typical line of emote for me. I do not believe there is a right or wrong way; either 1st or 3rd person is fine. Use what helps you express yourself. 2nd person, on the other hand, is like fingers on a chalk board for me. Big NO NO. You can say "what" they feel but never try to tell someone "how" they feel.