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the bee charmer from alabama ([info]colloquialisms) wrote in [info]rp_tutorials,
@ 2010-08-23 05:04:00

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Biographies vs. facts
Depending on the game, I think it could go either way when it comes to a character. Sometimes, I even think facts are better than a full biography mostly because people don't really have the attention span nowadays to sit and read a really in-depth biography, not that this is an excuse. We as people have definitely become a very ADD and lazy society.

My real question here, however, is when a comm asks for "detailed facts," how detailed is too detailed? What's an acceptable detailed fact sentence and detail-wise?

Edit: The character journal I'm working with in this particular situation is ~zifang, which I'll more than likely comment on this post quite a few times when responding to others. I'm a mult-tasker, so sometimes I forget which journal I'm signed into when responding to comments.

Edit again: There's a new post up in ~zifang which is the write-up containing the bullet point facts that are in the post below it. Feel free to comment and give me pointers!


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[info]zifang
2010-08-23 09:50 pm UTC (link)
Honestly, that seems a lot like my writing style now, but I do love writing in detailed prose. I not only like to describe the main aspects of my character as you've listed here, but I also like to showcase my writing so that people understand I do have the ability to write some pretty epic posts.

At the same time, I do recognize that some of my characters seem over-detailed. Characters like ~vyshaanti and even ~toriniti are so because I've had them for so many years. With them, I've played much more one-on-one, so they've been exposed to a certain group of characters that helped to write the biography that's in their histories now. As a writer, it's very important to me to continue that continuity with those developed characters.

However, when I write, I keep in mind that I want these character's to change in some way, and sometimes, it may not be their whole person. I always make it a point to write the character opposite of what I want them to become at some point during the game.

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