Need help with emoting

Agree that he's very cute but kinda on the short side. 10 in cuteness factor though.

/me tries really really hard not to inquire why you like gargling so much....

i have been to a place with male dancers
what made me tip was feeling i was special
was i?
heck no
but for that period of time i was made to feel like i was
and i loved it


edited to add that none of the making me feel special had to do with how i looked/my appearance

lol- I have called them gargles at home (rl) for so long i forget not everyone knows i call them that (i have a bunch of them at home and in fact here in the office- there are two of the little critters staring at me right now!)

Hurray! It drives me insane when people say something can't be taught, when what they mean is that you can't teach it by standing in front of a blackboard and talking. Probably true, but there's lots of other ways of teaching, including experience management. And saying "things are just genetic/natural" - but ask a biologist to tell you which allele(s) it is, and they'll admit it's just something they presume because they couldn't explain differences any other way.

Now, these were a few emoting tricks I was taught by a MUSH friend a while back. These are not so much specifically to do with dancing but they might be interesting a while.

- Choose your words carefully. They don't just describe your actions, they describe your personality. Do you "select", "pick", or "choose"? Do you "pull", or "slip"? It can matter a lot, but you do need to keep it consistent for them to work. Be careful with more blatantly loaded words like "sashay" and "wiggle", they can really just end up sounding cheesy.

- Be aware of how you use time, too. A very carefully written short description can be incredibly effective because it suggests that something very attractive can be easy for you - like it would be (or, stereotypically wold be) for a beautiful/handsome purpose. Likewise, stacking several items together can work very well - regular roleplayers call this "godmoding" and oppose it, but in situations where there's no conflict, it can have lots of positive effects by manipulating the posing.

- Don't be too fast and know how you'll close. How long does an RL striptease performane last? 10 minutes maybe? So don't expect to just start and go on for the rest of the SL session, and ditto if your customer expects you to.

Good point! Go down to a club like Sixx Pack (or however it's spelled ...) in your female avvy to see the men who dance and the women who dig it. Not saying that the men are real men or women are real women, but the lindens are real lindens.

very good suggestion, go out as a female, see how the other "guys" are doing it, see which ones tend to pull more girls over to watch/tip

learn from what they are doing
(do not mimic, but learn)

for instance, when I was DJing, one of the hostesses always pulled in 1000's of lindens, sometimes 8 to 10K lindens in a 2 hour set.
how did she do it?
She had her own style, that everyone loved, and from that, she just got a following who tipped to get her to do her thing.
I know a lot of hostesses since then that tried her style and it never worked for them, why? because it was HER style, her thing, her way, and genuine to who she was, it was never forced when she did it, but sounded forced and corny when others did.

So... find YOUR style, what makes you... you, an develop it, go with it, and have fun!

I have an Emoting 101 notecard in world that my fiancee and I made for dancers. If you would like one, IM me in world and I will send it to you.

This would get a tip from me if for nothing else, having the appearance of honesty and making me laugh.

Thank you LittleMe Jewell, you couldn't have said it better.

As for Pserendipity Daniels, This little comment shows how 'little' you think of women - I suppose it is extremely sad that you are married to a woman and feel this way.

I don't know where you went or what place you were at that you felt the women were so "grateful for any sort of attention" but I for one know that is NOT true. In fact it seems the Males are more "grateful for any sort of attention". One even chased me around this whole island - while he was nekkie - Even after I had told him 'no' he kept chasing after me. I had to go elsewhere for a little while just to get him off my tail.

One thing I DO NOT like about this place - is if you ignore someone - you shouldn't have to see their avatar at all after that! Instead you see this grey avatar - what's the point of having the 'ignore' option if you still have to see the outline of their avatar? Obviously they were doing something to get ignored, so therefore we shouldn't have to still be able to see them being annoying!

Back to the main topic...

If you have to ask how to 'chat' via typing in the /me - to tell others what you are doing/thinking/feeling - then perhaps this is not for you. If you are a writer of some sort or have the capability to be creative and use your imagination then you should have no trouble. Now if you are asking, that makes one wonder if you really are a male/female instead of what you claim. Like someone said a lot earlier - it does not really matter whether the person behind the avatar is actually of the gender they say they are - AS LONG AS THEY REMAIN THAT GENDER with that account throughout the whole game. I don't want to be chatting it up with a Male avatar to only find out later that it was actually a female person behind the male avatar and vice versa.