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by SinfulSoul on Fri Jul 06, 2007 1:26 pm
There were some questions sent to me that I realized I should've answered to make this a bit more clear. With the person's permission, I'm going to post the PM I received and my response so that it may help other people who are interested in this.
Question:
Hello, as you can see, I am writing in response to your 'Darth Sin Applications'. Now, you've definitely piqued my curiosity, but I'm afraid I will need more than that. From what I understand, you would be working independant of the RPA? Meaning their rules would not apply, and therefore teaching something that couldn't be learned in the Academy. Now, I already graduated this academy, but I feel as if I could still learn much, much more. I feel my writing is still lacking, and that there is something along the lines of an... artistic flare, which is missing in my writing. I would apply here, but I am not exactly sure what it is you plan to teach, and so would not want to waste your time. Of course, asking follow-up questions might just waste more of it, but this once again falls into my need for further tutoring. I notice that you do not forum roleplay as much as one might (no offence intended), while I do not actively participate in chat roleplay (mostly because I don't understand it). Could this cause a problem? But that is just another question. Let's focus on the first.
What would I be learning?
Would you be 'passing on' what you have learned through your time roleplaying?
If so, what would such things entitle? Grammar? Character Development? General Etiquette? Or a whole encompassing of all aspects of roleplaying?
Anyway, I thought I'd ask, because it definitely interests me. Thank you for your time.
My response:
Sent at: Thu Jul 05, 2007 2:51 pm
by SinfulSoul
Awesome, I'm glad to see such enthusiasm to bring your RPing skill to the next level. Here's some answers to your questions.
Yes, this venture of mine is entirely independent of the RolePlay Academy. RolePlay Academy gets people on the right track to Roleplaying, makes them independent and have basic understandings of how to roleplay. If RPA is like kindergarten through highschool, what I'm doing is like K-12 plus college through grad school, or just the college through grad school depending on how skilled the the apprentice is that I choose.
So yes, since I will be teaching the apprentice everything that I know, this will be like "passing on" everything I've come to learn through nearly a decade of roleplaying. That is why I am running an application process to find a candidate worthy of me spending my time to teach a decade of trial and error to another person in less than 6 months or round about.
The things you listed, Grammar, Character Development, General Etiquette, those are all still part of the elementary section of Roleplay and will be taught if it is necessary. That isn't exactly the benefit of my training though. I will teach you more in-depth skills and emphasize the importance of diversification in my training. I will teach basic theories of roleplay and expand on these fundamental principals to show how roleplay can be furthered. I will explain how to be someone that moves RP along instead of someone that simply participates. My goal is to expand off of the basic linear path that basic roleplayers follow and have them branch out to play on a higher level. I will take your style that you have now, critique and improve upon it, then force you to apply your own unique style to a multitude of personality types. I expect a lot of this to be hands-on training to provide practical applications, and so while being trained you will also be gaining experience in real roleplay situations. However, for any of this to work I will need to spend a few days seeing how you roleplay and then tweak from there.
Most important of all, roleplay is supposed to be fun. Too often is roleplay secluded to a small group and I teach how to nurture a roleplaying environment that is fun for all characters involved and open to allow more to join in.
And finally, roleplay is not bound simply to a chat. Although it may seem that I do not roleplay often in the forums, it is something that I do enjoy and do often. Right now I'm currently a participant primarily in the Gundam Wing Continuing Legends roleplay. I will also be teaching how to roleplay on the forums, but I will admit that section is a little bit later in the training since forum RP requires an application of all skills from the very beginning. Hopefully within a few weeks you'll have perfected your own artistic style enough to begin work on your forum roleplay skills.
So now I have one request for you. You asked some good questions and I wanted to know if I could copy and paste both your PM and my response to the forum thread? Maybe it'll help someone else who has questions too.
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