Post by Chroesh on Mar 15, 2009 15:01:50 GMT -5
It's recommended that members check out the Ostermark Gazette for broader access to roleplay on the server.
This was posted by Margaret on the forums there; it's an idea she found on another forum that allowed people to more fully explore their characters without having to write 5000 words. We're posting it here for others to read, enjoy and attempt!
Margaret's instructions:
The idea behind the list was to write a single paragraph for each word on the list from your character's point of view. It provided a very nice short-form RP outet for people like me who sometimes have trouble focusing on writing long stories. Particularly it's helped me work on difficult characters or on a difficult point in a character's life. I guess I use it as a way to break up my writer's block.
I don't usually write in any particular order, I just focus on whatever word strikes a chord with me at the moment. Sometimes I will take that paragraph and spin it off into a larger story and sometimes it stays as a small window into the character.
So here are the fifty words we started with. I challenge anyone reading this to write something for every word and finish the list. If it takes a month, or a year - just go for it.
The List
1. Air
2. Apples
3. Beginning
4. Bugs
5. Coffee
6. Dark
7. Despair
8. Door
9. Drink
10. Duty
11. Earth
12. End
13. Fall
14. Fire
15. Flexible
16. Flying
17. Food
18. Foot
19. Grave
20. Green
21. Head
22. Hollow
23. Honour
24. Hope
25. Light
26. Lost
27. Metal
28. New
29. Old
30. Peace
31. Poison
32. Pretty
33. Rain
34. Regret
35. Roses
36. Secret
38. Snow
39. Solid
40. Spring
41. Stable
42. Strange
43. Summer
44. Taboo
45. Ugly
46. War
47. Water
48. Welcome
49. Winter
50. Wood
This was posted by Margaret on the forums there; it's an idea she found on another forum that allowed people to more fully explore their characters without having to write 5000 words. We're posting it here for others to read, enjoy and attempt!
Margaret's instructions:
The idea behind the list was to write a single paragraph for each word on the list from your character's point of view. It provided a very nice short-form RP outet for people like me who sometimes have trouble focusing on writing long stories. Particularly it's helped me work on difficult characters or on a difficult point in a character's life. I guess I use it as a way to break up my writer's block.
I don't usually write in any particular order, I just focus on whatever word strikes a chord with me at the moment. Sometimes I will take that paragraph and spin it off into a larger story and sometimes it stays as a small window into the character.
So here are the fifty words we started with. I challenge anyone reading this to write something for every word and finish the list. If it takes a month, or a year - just go for it.
The List
1. Air
2. Apples
3. Beginning
4. Bugs
5. Coffee
6. Dark
7. Despair
8. Door
9. Drink
10. Duty
11. Earth
12. End
13. Fall
14. Fire
15. Flexible
16. Flying
17. Food
18. Foot
19. Grave
20. Green
21. Head
22. Hollow
23. Honour
24. Hope
25. Light
26. Lost
27. Metal
28. New
29. Old
30. Peace
31. Poison
32. Pretty
33. Rain
34. Regret
35. Roses
36. Secret
38. Snow
39. Solid
40. Spring
41. Stable
42. Strange
43. Summer
44. Taboo
45. Ugly
46. War
47. Water
48. Welcome
49. Winter
50. Wood