>>132961
The problem with para RP (or x paras RP, or x lines RP) is that it's one-size-fits-all. I was the same way as you when I was younger, I thought longer was always better so I'd try to establish a baseline size every post would be for each RP.
But that's stupid. Some of the time it was like pulling teeth or padding a college essay and most of the extra stuff was just descriptions I and the other player had read a hundred times before anyway. Imagine if, in novels, authors had to keep every action every character takes roughly the same number of words. Sure, RP is a different medium with different conventions and goals, but fixed post length goals are still dumb.
It was one of the things that made it hard to enjoy RP. Combine that with RPing too much every day and you'd get miserably burnt out chasing this ideal. I'd eventually reach the point where I was just staring at a text entry box with severe writer's block, feeling worse and worse with every passing second as my partner had to wait longer, until I'd either make up an excuse or more likely just force quit whatever program I was using and hide in meatspace for a few days.
Nowadays I do flexible posts and all the best RPers I know are the same way. Anywhere from 2 sentences if the characters are just having a dialogue to two (or more) paragraphs if there's a major event that's complex or a changes a lot of details in the scene. I can't tell you nice it feels to write exactly the right amount, then stop and press enter. It's just freeing. Keeps the RP moving faster too.