Ok, don't shoot this one down straight away, but I've done this elsewhere and it is a brilliant and highly addictive way of provoking competitive and complementary writing...
The word role-play personally fills me with dread, I always think back to that wanker with the rubber swords on the set of Henry V who insisted on bragging about his 'martial prowess' with a latex appendage... enough said really. The way in which an online writers role-play works is simple:
- Agree a Genre for the impending role-play.
- Post our characters, built to a character sheet (yeah, cringe, cringe)...
- Outside some basic rules of character interaction (shouldn't be a problem, but in action orientated variants some people cannot understand the difference between 'drama' and 'murder' and attempt to 'kill' other peoples characters - clearly a silly idea!)
- There is a 'gamesmaster' (I know - cringe!) - I will shave my head, chop my legs off and don a silly red smock. I will appear from behind rocks and dispense justice if peeps get silly - right! Fear ME... I might send Uni after you!
- Have fun, the idea is to compete over the story line and have different perspectives on the same story - effectively then competing to out-do each-other in story twists, brilliant complexity or astounding writing...
My votes for a murder mystery set in a 'to be agreed' time period and place with different PI's, police detectives etc competing to discover clues before the murderer etc strikes again.
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What a great idea... some rules. If we are all agree I shall post them alongside this. It's just a idea but... it might just work!
(Cue 80's American music!)
How would the posting work? Usually you'd do this as a continguous thread... with one writer entering a 'chapter' after another.
Hi Folks,
Have you tried out the "Once Upon a Time" card game? It plays a little similar to what you're writing about.
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