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
