How to Take Turns in Collaborative Settings is a must-read for anyone who is working on a collaborative writing project or in a play-by-post or forum-based roleplaying game. It talks about how not to hog the scene. Capturing Fantasy has a wealth of advice relevant to online roleplaying and creative writing.
Screw You and Your Facts! Keep this from Gnome Stew in mind the next time you’re whinging at your GM and/or fellow roleplayers about how some nit-picky bit of trivia shouldn’t be allowed in the game because it wouldn’t work in real life. If we wanted perfect reality, we’d walk away from the game and just live our oh-so-mundane and realistic lives!
Three things to ensure a satisfactory endgame… at StupidRanger.com details the crucial components to your roleplaying campaign’s final session: the big event, suspense, and the epilogue.
Get Rid of Ugly Wordiness: How to Cut your Novel Down to Size at PoeWar.com gives four suggestions to trim excessively wordy writing. Less is more.
In Tolkien’s Lilith, Doctor J explores the uncanny similarities between Tolkien’s Ungoliant and the Biblical/demonic figure of Lilith. (Who should not be confused with Lillith, btw. Or Lilithiel –eve)
Undertown is one of the two May 2008 RhydinWiki Featured Articles. I am dying to use this setting in some upcoming writing. When I get time!
As mentioned in Perfect Playable, all of the ((Perchance to Dream: Threads)) at the Red Dragon Inn. It is so interesting to read about other characters’ dreams.
Obviously my recommendations this week are all related to roleplaying or writing. What interesting sites or articles have you stumbled upon recently?
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I expected I would going to find Screw You and Your Facts! (*cough* lore whores, canon nazis *cough*) more relevant to my roleplay, but actually How to Take Turns in Collaborative Settings resounded more clearly: “So you post. Another player posts, you post in return, and soon, the situation is one of a back-and-forth battle of speed.”
Nothing like posting in the morning, getting home from work and finding that three pages of posts have occurred and the non-gainfully-employed-during-daylight-hours players have moved on to another scene, with your character presumably just sitting there with its thumb up its bum watching the goings-on mutely.
I’d like to have seen the writer give some examples of what not to do and what to do instead, though all the same I’m going to be saving that link for the next forum roleplay storyline I step into.