Roleplay Character Writing.

Wednesday, July 25, 2018


Roleplay, I've been in it since 2011 and lately I'm into The Stuarts, but how do I write?
A little showoff, haha.

I started /again/ in 2011 with roleplay writing, this time it was Facebook and the fandom van 'The Phantom of the Opera'. My characters name was Emma, the fictional daughter of the Phantom, her FC (faceclaim) began with Kate Beckinsale, then moved to Odette Annable, Sarah Olsen and eventually Julianne Hough. She lived on till somewhere this year, where I changed her from Emma to Mary (D'Este).

When I began with writing, I had only experience with fanfiction of Medicopter 117 and Flashpoint, which were, reading it back after more than 12 years are rather shit. And some forum roleplay, but nothing big, nothing out of the ordinary and nothing 100% fictional.

My first replies were small, I copied the writing style from people because I had no idea how to write emotions and the people I wrote with didn't use the book style.

Unfortunately, I have no replies left of the beginning of my Facebook RP days or even way before that. Sometimes you delete things you do regret later. If I may find something back, I will update this post.

A couple of years later, I met lots of more people and my writing changed into the book style, which looks way more 'professional' (for as far a roleplay account can be professional) and my replies got longer, something more than 5 paragraphs and other times I ended at 2, you get what I mean.

I will show some examples from Twitter later on different styles.

Lately, I've been active on Twitter Roleplay in the Historical Times of the Stuarts, and that's fun, you can interact with anyone and it's way easier than Facebook. However, it's annoying to post a long reply or starter as you only have 280 characters, I use twittrp.com for that and it's a bit double work, it works perfectly.

In case you wonder "How do you know where to write about with someone?" I have the easiest answer ever; You communicate. Most of the time I and my potential writing partner meet in DM's to discuss one and other, tell more about our characters and plot a storyline, it's like coming up with a story, only you do it together and mix and match.

I have asked my main writing partner if he was alright with me sharing some of our storylines, and he agreed. I'm also sharing a starter I wrote at one of my accounts the other day, which was the beginning of a long chain of replies between me and two others.

In starters, I always end at a point where my partner can enter, like with knocking on a door or something like that.

Just a warning, they're not fantastic.... I don't really like my starters at all, don't ask me why, but just. Nah.





This is the starter I wrote the other day to have some drama going on between Victor and Catherine.

And here I have a little conversation between James II/VII and Mary of Modena:
Note; these are snippets, if you want to read the full one, it starts here .

As you can see, there are completely different writing styles and we all often adopt one and other during the SL.
This is a sample of a light book style.

But here is an example of how I started with RP all those years ago (and admittingly it's still fun now and then)

All with all, it doesn't matter how you write, as long as you make it clear of what your action and words are.

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You can generally find me on Twitter under the tag #Victorieuxx.

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