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I hate writing. I despise writing. I hate it with a seething fire that permeates my soul. I can roleplay. I can use correct grammar. I take joy in reading through something and correcting the grammar and spelling to the best of my ability.
And for the past month, I've been trying to write a story.
Robert Heinlein once said that a writer is not who you are, or what you do for a living. Its a disease. funny pieces of dialoge from the tv spark off ideas inside your mind, and before you know it, its 4am (actual local time as I'm writing this) and you've cranked out another chapter.
I'm new to disco, and to the concept of RP, but not new to FL or writing (atm, I'm writing a medical textbook).
I log into disco, not because i'm an RP-fetishist, but because im a FL-fetishist, and disco is simply the best server going.
I was a little apprehensive of RP. after playing games like everquest and shaiya, i found that mmorpg actually meant 'middle-aged men online role playing girls'. but i stuck with it, and i now appreciate someone who can RP well. Kudos to the OPG who discounted the tax after i told him i was showing the wife's younger sister some trade routes last month.
It also makes it clearer who/what is sharing a system with you if they are in a clearly tagged ship. When i ran into a corsair gunnboat with an order tag and a civilian id (yes kitten, i'm looking at you), with the sloppiest rp and only the haziest concept of the server rules, i was 'sheesh, take the damn money if it means you will GO AWAY)
I had a point here, which kinda got lost:
I started writing after my encounters with bad rp-players sparked off an idea. I log onto disco, do some trade runs, meet interesting people and try to avoid getting killed by them. I then go and scribble down some ideas, which grew into 'The Journal of Caius Oakley'. If they're too lazy to RP, i'm hijacking their characters for my own story.
There's betrayal, murder, sex, alcohol and synth paste.
It is a bit of a novel, but i'm aiming it at the reunion mod that's coming up, so at a certain point its gonna stall. Having the whole of disco to feed your brain ideas is a wonderful antidote to writers block.
and when i get tired of writing long, complicated medical terms, its real good therapy to write about sex and violence
1 ... Not everyone can read everything written in the forums. If you go 3 days without reading the forum, you'll find there's 20 pages of posts to SCAN. I have no time to read everyone's post every day. So ... I have to pick and choose what I read. So my first thought is ... don't expect me to know who you are or what your background is when I encounter you in-game. If you have a back-story ... great ... let me know. But don't jump up and down on my back because I'm not reacting to you according to who you are. My first response to you is according to the ID and IFF you wear.
2 ... Too many people use these back-stories to explain why they have an unlawful ship and a lawful ID. Stories are not excuses to avoid playing by the rules. I've seen Bounty Hunters flying Dragon gunboats in the past. And the "I stole it" line doesn't work. I don't buy it and I doubt the admins will accept it.
3 ... These stories do explain away the gray areas ... especially for those who have generic ID's. I should probably write a few for mine. I just don't have the time.
4 ... They do add a positive element to the server. Best use for stories is to explain the player factions. Nice to know something about individual characters ... but I think its more important to have the background of a faction. We're more likely to encounter and (for role play) hear about or know about the various factions. You may have a FEW individuals who become notorious ... but these stories are usually written by those who have encountered them. Billy the Kid didn't write his stories. We know about Billy the Kid because of others who've heard or encounter the guy.
Douglas Adams, the guy that created "The hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy" summed up the way I feel about writing the best, & it's the closest to the way I truly feel about the whole thing.
i like having a written part of the RP that is like a dairy. - a recapture of what actually happened on the server, spiced with what you cannot do on the server, that might support your actions and shed some light on it.
so you only write what happened, but you are free to add your characters thoughts, feelings and intentions. - something you cannot really RP ingame. - but all in all, its more a description of what you actually did.
- what i don t like much is a story that is written and has no link to what happened in the game whatsoever. a brief history is fine. - a lengthy description of adventures that never happened and will never happen, and only happened in a story are - well... kind of boring for me.
so all in all, i prefer the dairy like stories - and i dislike it when the story takes up the greater part of the characters personality than what other players see ingame.
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