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07 Feb

Size Does Matter

Free Form Role-Play is still alive and well, and downright thriving in the world of online forums. With the easy ability for just about anyone to host their own phpBB set up, or join a site like freewebs, play-by-post and the creative writing side of FFRP may actually be bigger than ever.
Eve, the player behind […]

30 Jan

Coming up Short

In many ways, writing various scenes based on your role-playing character can be more like writing a short story than a novel.  And writing effective short stories takes a different approach than writing a novel.
Leo Babauta has a new blog, Write to Done, and recently posted an article about writing an effective start to a […]

13 Nov

Conventions for Live Role-Play

Conventions, besides being events that you attend, are a certain way of doing things that become ‘the norm’. Typically they are not policies or hard rules, but over over time they become the accepted way to do something. Text base RP sites each tend to develop their own conventions to help players better visualize what […]

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