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Guide to Role Play
Guide to Role Play
Before we leap into the types of role play and the rules lets discuss what role play (RP) is exactly.
Role play: To play a role. To personify oneself as a separate entity. In short, collaborative story writing.
Role play is often more than just acting as someone else. It can be used as a stress reliever, to help develop original characters: possibilities with collaborative story writing are endless. However, like all games, rules come with them.
We are all Human
Lets face it, while most of us wish to be super man and godly in strength, we are not. This applies to your characters as well. Its no fun to role play with
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Creating a Character
So you want to Create a Character?
It's best to start with the basics.
==Name
Remember, it's perfectly okay to change your characters' names as you write your story. A character's name could be as simple as a common name, such as Max Reuben, or could be as elaborate as Cecelia Jane Vivian Lily Iris Alexis Thompson. But remember, you want to have a name for your character that can be used conversationally. Max and other monosyllabic names are great, but for you more creative types, just make sure your character can have a nickname, or will just go by one of his or her many names.
Another thing to remember is that, as a writer, your goal i
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Lesson 3: Backstory
Lesson 3 – Backstory
Ah, Backstory. This one should be easier.*
When writing a story, unless you're being weird unique and only plan to sell the work as a piece of Literary Fiction, you have a basic scheme of time: past, present, and future. There are many ways of blending these things—say the hero is recounting his rise to greatness, in which we are grounded in the future, but the story is in the present (so to speak). Examples: Gladiator, the anime Baccano (as far as I can tell—it was kind of confusing), and a number of novels written in First Person. Most of the time you'll find works where the present is the focus, but wh
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Not even sure if this one's really good enough to go up.
But up it's going, anyway. I can't be a wanna-be writer if I don't actually upload any of my writing, now can I?
Yeah, there's a whole backstory I'm not explaining there. Don't worry. Uploading this is... mostly a self-indulgence.
Jaye and Mattie belong to: *RandomPedestrian
Zachary and Marquis belong to: Me. :3
But up it's going, anyway. I can't be a wanna-be writer if I don't actually upload any of my writing, now can I?
Yeah, there's a whole backstory I'm not explaining there. Don't worry. Uploading this is... mostly a self-indulgence.
Jaye and Mattie belong to: *RandomPedestrian
Zachary and Marquis belong to: Me. :3
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I love this one. So much sadness. D: So powerful. ;3;