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I think I tend to do most of my rewriting in my head before it ends up on a document, especially if it takes time to type it out on a laptop or my phone. I still run through and edit before I post, but the time up to that can be the period where I decide the main points of my post.

That and I tend to isolate on storylines where what other people do tends to have minimal effect unless I'm in a combo with someone. Then it's a collaboration.

 

I wish I had been told to not invest myself fully into a single character, or rather, to not end up treating the character as a accidental self-insert. It's pretty easy to fall into the trap if you spend a substantial amount of time roleplaying a single person. To compound on this, when you're starting out, it can come as quite a shock to find that if your character continues to make terrible decisions, it can result in a character death, which if you're not careful, can make you, the player, feel as if you're being personally attacked by the other players/GM when that was actually the least of their intentions.

I'd recommend any new player to reach out to their GM's, one, to let them know what your general plans for your character are, and two, if there's anything you don't want to do. It'll make the story more enjoyable for everyone involved

Spoiler: Personal example

For a personal example of this, I can look back at my deceased character named Vyatoris. I laugh at it now, but I remember at the time wanting to outright quit the forums after he was killed off by other player characters. To me, it was abrupt, unexpected, and truthfully, it felt pretty personally insulting. Looking back, he totally deserved it, being the two-timing prick that he was, but I was so used to the idea that a player's character couldn't die without their express consent that it was a complete shock. Through a series of back and forth conversations, everything got smoothed over and I came to terms with the fact that not only was Vyatoris proudly waving every sort of death flag imaginable, it actually made for an interesting story beat.

Through working with the GM, @Sinrebirth and I ended up writing a really touching send off the my character, which was vastly appreciated. (Also some of my best writing, in my honest opinion )

 

I mostly write in my head, as I'm thinking about the next post. Then, of course, I sit down at my desk to type it up. I try to wait to post to the next day, so that I can review and make tweaks, but sometimes I'm in a rush so, boom! Up it goes. Fanfiction is a bit easier, I almost never start posting until the first draft of the whole story is completely finished.

 

If I am completely honest, I only learnt this when I started playing D&D properly.
I had no idea everyone here was pming each other behind the scenes here, only realised that a couple of years back and then wasn't brave enough to do it.
.... and if I am really really honest, I'm still not brave enough to do that most of the time.
I only managed to properly do it for Irryn in Genesis Gate, so I was really bummed when that went on hiatus.

 

Myself. Seriously, before I knew what fan fiction was, I was firing up Microsoft Word on my grandparents’ computer as a kid and writing my own stories about Rocket Power, Donkey Kong Country, and Backyard Baseball. I also wrote some original stories, a couple of which my grandmother emailed to my aunt, who added some clip art to them and printed them out for me. I still have a couple copies around here.

As for how I found this place, someone on the GameFAQs message boards started a Star Wars RPG over there, and then eventually directed me here. And the rest is history!

 

Sadly no, I didn’t even realize those existed until after they were out of circulation. They remade Jungle Beat on the Wii, which doesn’t require the bongo drums, so I’ve had my eye on eBay listings of that one.

 

Roleplaying wise, I've been playing some form of Tabletop RPG (Dungeons and Dragons, Pathfinder, etc) for what feels like ever. As for doing this *gestures vaguely*, I think I started play-by-post style roleplaying on a different site somewhere around 2013-ish, about a year or two before The Force Awakens released in theaters.

I had just rediscovered my love for Star Wars and had consumed pretty much every form of expanded media at that point. I figured that, if there weren't any movies coming out, I'd make my own stories!

They were bad. Just awful. I'm really glad I went by a different username back then so none of it can be easily dug up

 

No one will ever know my original account on these forums for that reason.

 

I'm hopefully doubly protected as my terrible posts were on a different forum under a different username.

If anyone somehow manages to find them, firstly, rude, and secondly, do me a favor and please pretend you didn't

 

Triple-ly protected perhaps..? The forum itself wasn't dedicated to Star Wars, it just had a dedicated sub-forum for Star Wars stuff that I frequented. Then I found this place in 2018, and now you're all stuck with me

Jeeze.. I haven't heard anyone mention the Aruin Grimoire stuff in years... Never got to play it myself, but I do still enjoy poking around the rulebooks every now and then