- Invitation Status
- Posting Speed
- One post per week
- Slow As Molasses
- Writing Levels
- Elementary
- Intermediate
- Adept
- Advanced
- Prestige
- Adaptable
- Preferred Character Gender
- Male
- Female
- Genres
- Dark Fantasy, Fantasy, Romance, Historical, Some Sci-Fi
When you create a character, you define his skills and his personality and you give him specific traits and all of that good stuff. How do you remember to think and insert those specific traits into the post? Give the character a soul and a voice?
See, the way I write is on impulse and improvisation, followed by a round of editing and polishing. But when I edit and I polish, I merely fix typos, grammar and punctuation mistakes and I change some word choices to make sure the text flows smoothly and the proper word selection from a range of synonyms is used.
Unlike with a story, I can't look at the whole picture and tweak the characters to make them different. RPing requires a lot more improvisation that way. The human memory can only go so far. Unless I fanatically reread every single post from the beginning, I am unlikely to keep to the same 'voice' that I had for the character in posts way back.
So, really, what's a good way to keep the character's voice unique and individual? Should I create a short list of points for every character, a list of traits and quirks, and see if I can insert them into the post? I'd need a note keeping program or something that can sync across multiple devices.
See, the way I write is on impulse and improvisation, followed by a round of editing and polishing. But when I edit and I polish, I merely fix typos, grammar and punctuation mistakes and I change some word choices to make sure the text flows smoothly and the proper word selection from a range of synonyms is used.
Unlike with a story, I can't look at the whole picture and tweak the characters to make them different. RPing requires a lot more improvisation that way. The human memory can only go so far. Unless I fanatically reread every single post from the beginning, I am unlikely to keep to the same 'voice' that I had for the character in posts way back.
So, really, what's a good way to keep the character's voice unique and individual? Should I create a short list of points for every character, a list of traits and quirks, and see if I can insert them into the post? I'd need a note keeping program or something that can sync across multiple devices.
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