Both creative writing and free form role-playing can get a bit boring without some sort of conflict. And in most cases, to have conflict you need a ‘good guy’, and a ‘bad guy’. Writing for or playing a bad guy though is not always as easy at it would first seem.
Jerry Stratton wrote an enlightening […]
According to Harriet Silkwood over at bookbymany.com,
Writers are such a moody species. We call ourselves sensitive, but honestly, downright touchy is a truer description. We are so touchy, in fact, […]
Copyright issues are of concern to writer’s in general because of the desire to protect one’s work. Role-players have the same concerns, but also sometimes need to be aware of the other side of the coin when it comes to things like ‘fair-use’.
The World Intellectual Property Organization has put out a publication that it hopes […]
…why can’t I get my avatar to load properly?
Why are we talking about pictures here? Well, sometimes a good story can use a good illustration. Or for an online rp site a good character portrait or avatar can really drive home your character description.
But not everyone can afford Photoshop, and the stuff that comes with […]
I just saw the first trailer for the upcoming movie adaptation of Beowulf, and while it’s origin is Old English, I think most perceive it as more of a Norse/Viking epic. And since movies such as this often spur a surge in character creations based on their theme, I thought we could dig up some […]
Ok, while most of you may not ‘blog’, a blog is about writing, and you do write. Right? Typos are a fact of life, especially in live role-play. But there are those words that always seem to trip us up.
I Scored a 93%!
The folks at Just Say Hi have put together The Blogger […]
Writing for Role Playing is all about expressing your creativity. There has been countless debates over the tendency by some to over-use the thesaurus to the point it’s earned it’s own moniker, ‘purple-prose’.
Everyone seems to have their own threshold when it comes to thesaurus-thumping, and Andi over at Daily Writing Tips offers up an article […]
We’ve already covered how important it is to at least spellcheck and proofread your writing. If you post to message boards using Firefox, you have a built in spellchecker you can work with. If you don’t (and why don’t you?), check out SpellJax, an AJAX powered spellchecker.
Just copy and paste your text in to the […]
There are plenty of places out there to get a free website, most can be a bit cumbersome to use and riddle your page with ads. New kid on the block, jottit, is a unique mixture of a wiki and Twitter. Everything you do is done in a single, simple text box.
…the award-winning internet encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and religion. Here you will find everything from A-gskw to Zveda Vechanyaya, with plenty in between.
The Encyclopedia Mythica is possibly one of the most definitive resources on mythology and folklore, and it only continues to get better. Currently housing over 7,000 articles on gods and goddesses, heroes, legendary […]
