For the beginner, the intermediate, and the scholar. Role-Play, in as few words as possible, is the art of interactive online story-based writing. For me, it is the cure to a loneliness that I sometimes feel after the intense and draining process that is called writing. I started at 11, and I know that I would be nothing without those countless years of boring tavern-based crap that was forgotten over time. I don't know how many here have been unfortunate enough to fall into that trap. It was a social retreat and a habitat for the lowest and most rejected misfits. In one word, it was pathetic. Pushing all of that aside, it crafted my writing, my morality, and allowed me to find myself and my faith. It was a blessing and a curse sharing the same box under the Christmas tree. It was the foundation of my interest of the written world. I met people who, like me, suffered from the knowledge that they were only a portion of what they could become. I strived to better myself, and Role-Play helped more than any "How To" book ever could. My reason for writing this is not necessarily to promote "RP" or to suggest that anyone should partake in it. Rather, I'm curious to whether I'm the only one who feels this way. Maybe I'm lost in my own nostalgia and can't think clearly at 1:26 AM. I'm not sure what I wished to accomplish with all of this. Perhaps nothing but a self-satisfaction with the fact that I'm not alone in my Role-Play upbringing. Or maybe I am and this is all a horrible fascination that I alone share with myself. In respect to the topic this is under, Role-Play is a definite way to tone your skills or forge them from nothing but a will and an interest in writing. The one deficit I find is the rarity of true Role-Play environments. I know of very few myself, and I've been at it a while. As a recommendation,
www.brokendagger.com. I hope this is not in vain.
