So many of my followers are probably aware, if they are still following, that I disappointed almost entirely. Why is that? Well mostly because I didn't feel I was getting very much response over my blogs and wished I had a more active fan-base. But, also, because I switched role-playing dimensions.
So why was that? Well back in what December 14 the yahoo chats were ended and I was left in a peculiar spot of the choice of having to try and find a new chatroom to role-play in or to give up role-play all together. Chips were going into giving up role-play as I signed up to things I didn't understand and tried to get role-play started with previously dead leads until someone said "Oh I use f-list" if you don't know what f-list is, look it up, but it provides a very different environment. Namely, most people on there WANT TO ROLE-PLAY.
What changed? Well I could make chats, I could join chatrooms that were almost entirely about role-play, and I could look people up with similar "kinks" as I had to role-play. Wow, what a change. However soon into this discovery I was left with the weird feeling that really lingered in the back of my head for a long time, was role-play a crutch to keep me from seriously stocking time into writing? Clearly it was.
Role-playing, as fun as it can be, is not serious writing. Written dialogue, plot, scenes, tends to be radically bipolar in their quality and so consistent in their unpublishability that it's really silly to think that what anyone is doing in role-play is writing some fantastic story. Really, anyone who thinks so, time to get over the facts you're not being an expert writer by role-playing. Online role-play is fun, it can have merit, it can even get you used to typing but in the end the best way to practice writing is to just fucking do it. Role-play serves as not a practice for writing but a way to waste time in a mindless, fun, attention getting way. Really, I suggest to anyone who reads this, don't be in the delusion that role-play is going to help you become a better writer. Archers don't play wii archery to practice archery, they just fucking go out and shoot things. If that analogy doesn't help you, then try beating yourself with a hot toaster struddle. I denounce role-playing (NOT LARP) and will never do it again. Good day.
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