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peanutpie guest	I just had a thought.... Aug 9, 2010 11:02:09 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by peanutpie on Aug 9, 2010 11:02:09 GMT -5 Everyone who consistantly roleplays on this website is a good writer.

Jasik District Mayor [M:-3775] 792 POSTS last seen Mar 6, 2020 17:24:40 GMT -5 When in doubt, just flail about	I just had a thought.... Aug 9, 2010 15:08:46 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Jasik on Aug 9, 2010 15:08:46 GMT -5 Well, considering roleplaying IS writing, that's a predictable outcome, isn't it?

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I just had a thought.... Aug 9, 2010 18:48:58 GMT -5

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Post by WT on Aug 9, 2010 18:48:58 GMT -5

I'm in total agreement with both of those comments- that the best RPers here are the ones who do it consistently, and that that fact is a logical progression. If you ask me, RPing is the single best way to learn to write. If I didn't know better, I would look back at my writing from when I was eleven and think it was a totally different person's. It's not just practice- that's a large part of it, but practice alone is almost useless. A great deal of it comes with reading other people's writing, and in the guidance that others give you both on purpose and on accident. I write the way I do now because people told me what was good and bad about my posts, but also because just seeing other people's examples told me a lot about what works and what doesn't. (It also exposed me to a lot of different writing styles, so I managed to break out of the "writing has to be this way" long enough to find something that I was good at. 'Course, now I'm in a stylistic rut of my own... >.> But, whatever.)

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I just had a thought.... Aug 9, 2010 21:06:19 GMT -5

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Post by Jasik on Aug 9, 2010 21:06:19 GMT -5

My writing skill grew here, too. I sometimes look at my first few posts on this site and I feel embarassed when I compare it to what I write now. So thank, THGRPG. I got perfect scores on both my midterm and final exam Literature essays thanks to you (ironically, both had something to do with THG).

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I just had a thought.... Aug 9, 2010 22:27:07 GMT -5

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Post by gm bourgeois decadence [aya] on Aug 9, 2010 22:27:07 GMT -5

I wouldn't say everyone who RPs constantly here is a great writer (some are; some have yet to hit that) but I'd definitely have to say that everyone who has done a fair bit of RPing is a better writer for it. It is, as was said above, a practice thing. Practice doesn't make perfect, but it makes better, anyhow. (Also: perfect writing does not exist. Perfect grammar, but not perfect writing. It's all subjective.)

It's nice too that characters start to take on lives of their own as they grow and develop and the writer is merely a medium between the character and the post, just the person pushing the keys. That is one thing that I'd have to say would be the mark of a great RPer, since RPing is character-oriented and character-driven. So when the Character is hardly anything less than a person, the posts are infinitely more realistic, infinitely better.

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I just had a thought.... Aug 10, 2010 18:34:21 GMT -5

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Post by Molly on Aug 10, 2010 18:34:21 GMT -5

As said above by everyone, I have to agree. When you begin to write you learn new ways and it helps your writing develop. When you RP with others it helps you with your writing style and finding it among every grain of sand. Because, in a way, we are all just grains of sand or salt in the sea and what we do here helps with our writing. Whether it be on the site or off it. It all comes together and makes a difference.
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I just had a thought.... Aug 10, 2010 19:29:52 GMT -5

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Post by cinder on Aug 10, 2010 19:29:52 GMT -5

What is great writing?

This is a question akin to the greatest of all. 'To be or not to be...'

Anyways I'm not going to ramble because I'm feeling sane today but anyways I feel that there is always room for improvement when it comes to writing and RPing HOWEVER most authors will tell you that by writing a little bit every day, whether its writing a letter to a friend at camp or writing a chapter in a book, it will help you in the long-run. Everybody should RP everyday, and everybody should work at adding a little bit of length/vocab to their posts. I used to tell myself no less than 300 words to a post, now I tell myself absolutely nothing less than 450 words. (And I can hit about 2,000 in a great thread)

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I just had a thought.... Aug 10, 2010 23:38:14 GMT -5

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Post by peanutpie on Aug 10, 2010 23:38:14 GMT -5

True, practice makes better. My writing is improving through the times, even though Ive only been on here for a few months. I am sure that my future LA/SS teacher will appreciate my efforts to keep a consistant writing down of everything...... No im not crazy.
And another comparison I make to us as writers is that we each have a different way of narrating out posts. I like first person, past tense, even though I noticed alot of people use third person. I think that people just have a comfortable thing. Like, me for example, I usually narrate my normal pieces this way (Yes, I write... quarter finished stories that I get ideas for and then drop off... even though my hunger games fan fiction is coming along quite swimmingly.) So, I think I go back to the first person thing because of that.

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I just had a thought.... Aug 11, 2010 11:16:45 GMT -5

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Post by sapphire on Aug 11, 2010 11:16:45 GMT -5

Hm, yes, most people on this website as well as many other RPGs, are very good writers. I started Role-playing on this very site. I had never even heard of text based RPGs. But, with help of the people here, I learned, and now my real stories and novels are better because of it.

See, I started writing back in the first grade, then years after that, my writing grew, then I found text based Role-playing! Hm, I would link you to my fanfiction but it is brand new and still nooby. O.o

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I just had a thought.... Aug 11, 2010 12:09:46 GMT -5

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Post by peanutpie on Aug 11, 2010 12:09:46 GMT -5

Mine is too Slytherin. I only say it is going along "swimmingly" because I know what is going to happen in the end. Its actually the 50th hunger games told through a character that dies perspective. She is from D7 and her name is Alaqua Treewater. The Careers are impressed by her ability to have good aim and make shelters, so they take her in.