well, for starters, let's just say kudos to you for realizing that you're not really capable of playing consistently in a game. i think a lot of trouble i personally have with flakes is this constant desire to have to play in games and have to take a spot that they're not actually doing anything with. i get it. they want to be part of all the fun to. but they're also really dimming the fun for other people when it's effectively like we don't really have X in the game since no one can get a full thread out of them.

as for the rest of it, i guess what i would suggest, if you're open to suggestions, is not holding yourself up to having to give out monster tags all the time. prose doesn't mean 5 paragraphs. it's a writing style. i write in both prose and brackets and honestly, i prefer prose. but even with a prose thread, me and my partner can boomerang short tags back and forth. why? because it's at least progressing the thread and moving it past whatever point it is that you particularly might have a problem with. if you love your prose tags but that one is just too big to get back to and it's the sheer volume that's holding you up, fire back a short reply. firstly, hey, at least it's something. secondly, it can help get you past that point that's making you stick. you can find that 'spark' and maybe get back into that groove you were in before.

maybe not, but tbh, i'd rather someone shoot me back a shitty one-two liner tag to try to move the thread along than consistently drop on me.