http://www.roleplayacademy.com/2009/12/roleplay-101-the-importance-of-words/ Roleplaying tips and tricks. Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:34:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.roleplayacademy.com/2009/12/roleplay-101-the-importance-of-words/comment-page-1/#comment-7767 Ava Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:05:59 +0000 http://www.roleplayacademy.com/?p=240#comment-7767 While I agree with this on about a 95% basis, I feel that a few things are missing from it. While I understand these are the 'basics of the basics', I am a little fretful that you have only really stressed upon grammatical and lexical knowledge and its importance. There is an underlying necessity that others tend to forget, and it is the "flat post", or the post without dynamic. On top of a broad lexical understanding, and a solid grammatical foundation, roleplay requires one to be imaginative in their writing. . . Not just in character creation, but how they write. The way that you describe something also affects the tonality as much as punctuating in right. This doesn't necessarily rely on knowing a lot of words, but being artistic enough to put them together. While this does depend on the style of roleplaying, every player should have a clean balance of ACTION and DESCRIPTION. I have noticed far too often that posts are either heavily descriptive with very little to respond to in any practical sense, or far too filled with action that it's utterly boring to read because of the lack of imagery. This is really where you want to spend your 'extra time'. Generally, if you run a post through MS Word, it should catch MOST of your mistakes, and the few that may be left aren't anything that will bother anybody. This takes a whole of three seconds, honestly. Most of the time you spend with your post should be making it sound nice, fun to read, easy and fluid, et cetera. All of this has to do with words and language, and is entirely relevant, really. More or less, I feel like while the basics are listed here, the actual purpose of their application (aside from the great punctuation example) is not illustrated. Many posts I've read have had great grammar, punctuation, and a diverse vocabulary---sometimes OBNOXIOUSLY diverse, the kind where you have to grab a dictionary because somebody got word-happy with theirs, yet their post is still utterly atrocious because they have no understanding of how to APPLY their fundamentals. I've had an epiphany for a new article! While I agree with this on about a 95% basis, I feel that a few things are missing from it. While I understand these are the ‘basics of the basics’, I am a little fretful that you have only really stressed upon grammatical and lexical knowledge and its importance. There is an underlying necessity that others tend to forget, and it is the “flat post”, or the post without dynamic. On top of a broad lexical understanding, and a solid grammatical foundation, roleplay requires one to be imaginative in their writing. . . Not just in character creation, but how they write. The way that you describe something also affects the tonality as much as punctuating in right. This doesn’t necessarily rely on knowing a lot of words, but being artistic enough to put them together. While this does depend on the style of roleplaying, every player should have a clean balance of ACTION and DESCRIPTION. I have noticed far too often that posts are either heavily descriptive with very little to respond to in any practical sense, or far too filled with action that it’s utterly boring to read because of the lack of imagery. This is really where you want to spend your ‘extra time’. Generally, if you run a post through MS Word, it should catch MOST of your mistakes, and the few that may be left aren’t anything that will bother anybody. This takes a whole of three seconds, honestly. Most of the time you spend with your post should be making it sound nice, fun to read, easy and fluid, et cetera. All of this has to do with words and language, and is entirely relevant, really. More or less, I feel like while the basics are listed here, the actual purpose of their application (aside from the great punctuation example) is not illustrated. Many posts I’ve read have had great grammar, punctuation, and a diverse vocabulary—sometimes OBNOXIOUSLY diverse, the kind where you have to grab a dictionary because somebody got word-happy with theirs, yet their post is still utterly atrocious because they have no understanding of how to APPLY their fundamentals. I’ve had an epiphany for a new article!

]]> http://www.roleplayacademy.com/2009/12/roleplay-101-the-importance-of-words/comment-page-1/#comment-7580 Salena Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:57:13 +0000 http://www.roleplayacademy.com/?p=240#comment-7580 Oh my gosh, you have no idea have true this thing is! I, myself, see the same mistakes all the time and its infuriating. Words can create the tone- feel of the character. Inside of saying "he walked 2 hr, Is gleaming with luv." Its much better to say: "He ran towards his love, embracing her." And its very good to build up the post and not go: "He walked through the forest, then rebounded off a tree." I mean, it makes no sense. Oh my gosh, you have no idea have true this thing is! I, myself, see the same mistakes all the time and its infuriating. Words can create the tone- feel of the character. Inside of saying “he walked 2 hr, Is gleaming with luv.” Its much better to say: “He ran towards his love, embracing her.” And its very good to build up the post and not go: “He walked through the forest, then rebounded off a tree.” I mean, it makes no sense.

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