Hello, hello.
This is nothing official and something I am doing out of enjoyment and the hope that people can learn to incorporate more RP into their battles rather than just writing bland moves. After all, everyone fights for a reason and you won't find a single battle in the Naruto manga where the characters simply stand there to spout meaningless jutsu after jutsu without striving for something greater.
So I'd like to create a small curriculum on the basics of incorporating RP into your own battles and essentially "becoming" your character. Technically, we are all already a "character" on the Internet where we can choose to be someone we are not in real life. For example, my real name is definitely not Adachi and I look nothing close to him, but that is how most people perceive me on NarutoBase - that is the persona I chose to be and due to the limitations of the Internet, that is how I am seen. Our avatars, our RP bios, our names, all of these tie into our perception of others on this forum because this is usually all we have to work with when we meet someone. Even you might have changed your name to the bio of someone you currently possess and as a result, that is how you people address and see you. No doubt, it is fun, but there are always ways to take this concept further.
In conclusion, I'd like to open this course for people who are serious about taking their RP further and most importantly of all, enjoy reading and writing. This is going to be done out of my own free time and I will be putting my 100 into it, and I don't mean to be discouraging in any manner, but if you are also not willing to put your 100, then please don't sign up and waste anyone's time. Also, I don't mean wallies of meaningless crap, wallies are wallies as of themselves, but RP can be done in both long and short sentences. Let's take these two examples into account:
1. Kakashi is unwilling to fight this battle. His hands are shaking as he reaches to his pocket, he is not using a high level technique, but is simply throwing kunais.
2. From the word "attempting", Kakashi is trying to get Obito to talk by meeting his eyes. Eye contact usually forces one or the other to react. Obito was once his friend, but am different now.
3. Obito is avoiding the eye contact. Why? Is he also feeling guilty? Is he unwilling to talk?
If I were to switch up Kakashi and Obito on the first sentence and change them to the names "Luffy" and "Ulquiorra", there would be no blatant difference. But it definitely wouldn't work with the second sentence. People would be no doubt confused.
Welp, it looked like I went on a small rant, my apologies. Anyways, below is all I have come up with thus far and am intending to teach with the course of this Creative Writing.
- Characterization: Why do you like your character? Why does he/she fight? What techniques make up your character? How would he/she act in a battle?
- English and some pluses: This will be more like your English class at school, but with a bit more of an RP aspect in it. This includes making your words flow, adding certain words that make your work seem more "professional" to give others a sense of high aptitude.
- Prose: Different characters use different styles and proses. For example, how might these two sentences give a varying feel?
So the current people I have aboard are:
1. Dragy
2. Gutsy Jiraiya
3. Noni
6. -Best-
7. Edward Suarez
8. Jokey
9. Deviation
10. Uzumaki Naruta
11. Kamishiro
I plan on splitting people into two or three per thread, in some cases, one on ones. If I missed your name and you VMed me about this, let me know. Depending on my time, I'll begin organizing my ideas and making threads though it may not happen this week as I have finals. That's about it. Sorry for the lack of professional BB Coding.
Edit: Further clarification on signing up, just leave a post below if you are interested. Feel free to give me some feedback or something you want to learn. I am always open for ideas. (Also, as I am a mod, troll posts not be tolerated.) But I will repeat once more: This is not going to be a breeze, I will critique your writing and I will expect effort as I will be doing the exact same for you. I have nothing but your benefit and improvement in mind. I won't accept everyone this first round as I have limited time but always keep an eye out. I do want everyone to enjoy writing and contribute their amazing characters to the RP. (Also, I am not a perfect writer, I am nowhere close to being great at it and I make tons of mistakes on a daily basis. Please, for the love of Madara Uchiha, do not put me on a pedestal or anything of the sort, I simply enjoy creative work and as an English major and from my experience through the years, I only hope to help others with it and most importantly, to have fun as well!)
This is nothing official and something I am doing out of enjoyment and the hope that people can learn to incorporate more RP into their battles rather than just writing bland moves. After all, everyone fights for a reason and you won't find a single battle in the Naruto manga where the characters simply stand there to spout meaningless jutsu after jutsu without striving for something greater.
So I'd like to create a small curriculum on the basics of incorporating RP into your own battles and essentially "becoming" your character. Technically, we are all already a "character" on the Internet where we can choose to be someone we are not in real life. For example, my real name is definitely not Adachi and I look nothing close to him, but that is how most people perceive me on NarutoBase - that is the persona I chose to be and due to the limitations of the Internet, that is how I am seen. Our avatars, our RP bios, our names, all of these tie into our perception of others on this forum because this is usually all we have to work with when we meet someone. Even you might have changed your name to the bio of someone you currently possess and as a result, that is how you people address and see you. No doubt, it is fun, but there are always ways to take this concept further.
In conclusion, I'd like to open this course for people who are serious about taking their RP further and most importantly of all, enjoy reading and writing. This is going to be done out of my own free time and I will be putting my 100 into it, and I don't mean to be discouraging in any manner, but if you are also not willing to put your 100, then please don't sign up and waste anyone's time. Also, I don't mean wallies of meaningless crap, wallies are wallies as of themselves, but RP can be done in both long and short sentences. Let's take these two examples into account:
Very to the point. Very easy to read. There's no issue here. However, let's say we add:
Now, from here, we can infer several things, giving this fight a bit more taste and the characters a bit more depth.
1. Kakashi is unwilling to fight this battle. His hands are shaking as he reaches to his pocket, he is not using a high level technique, but is simply throwing kunais.
2. From the word "attempting", Kakashi is trying to get Obito to talk by meeting his eyes. Eye contact usually forces one or the other to react. Obito was once his friend, but am different now.
3. Obito is avoiding the eye contact. Why? Is he also feeling guilty? Is he unwilling to talk?
If I were to switch up Kakashi and Obito on the first sentence and change them to the names "Luffy" and "Ulquiorra", there would be no blatant difference. But it definitely wouldn't work with the second sentence. People would be no doubt confused.
Welp, it looked like I went on a small rant, my apologies. Anyways, below is all I have come up with thus far and am intending to teach with the course of this Creative Writing.
- Characterization: Why do you like your character? Why does he/she fight? What techniques make up your character? How would he/she act in a battle?
- English and some pluses: This will be more like your English class at school, but with a bit more of an RP aspect in it. This includes making your words flow, adding certain words that make your work seem more "professional" to give others a sense of high aptitude.
- Prose: Different characters use different styles and proses. For example, how might these two sentences give a varying feel?
Notice how the periods make all the difference.
So the current people I have aboard are:
1. Dragy
2. Gutsy Jiraiya
3. Noni
6. -Best-
7. Edward Suarez
8. Jokey
9. Deviation
10. Uzumaki Naruta
11. Kamishiro
I plan on splitting people into two or three per thread, in some cases, one on ones. If I missed your name and you VMed me about this, let me know. Depending on my time, I'll begin organizing my ideas and making threads though it may not happen this week as I have finals. That's about it. Sorry for the lack of professional BB Coding.
Edit: Further clarification on signing up, just leave a post below if you are interested. Feel free to give me some feedback or something you want to learn. I am always open for ideas. (Also, as I am a mod, troll posts not be tolerated.) But I will repeat once more: This is not going to be a breeze, I will critique your writing and I will expect effort as I will be doing the exact same for you. I have nothing but your benefit and improvement in mind. I won't accept everyone this first round as I have limited time but always keep an eye out. I do want everyone to enjoy writing and contribute their amazing characters to the RP. (Also, I am not a perfect writer, I am nowhere close to being great at it and I make tons of mistakes on a daily basis. Please, for the love of Madara Uchiha, do not put me on a pedestal or anything of the sort, I simply enjoy creative work and as an English major and from my experience through the years, I only hope to help others with it and most importantly, to have fun as well!)
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