Thoughts on RP

[unfeathered]

I've been role-playing like mad (I've had up to five threads going at certain points!) for the last day and a half and I just realised I have got so much faster at it. Because, I think, I'm finally starting to trust my characters. My muses have got a hell of a lot stronger (well, Spike was always strong but even the Master had been wavering a bit lately) and I'm finally getting the confidence to just go with my gut responses and trust that they'll be in character.


I still sit there after posting sometimes going, 'What the hell did I just write?' and 'Will anyone reading that think it's in character?' but I'm doing it. I'm doing a lot less of sitting around drafting a response, then scrapping it and drafting a different one, then going back to the first one etc. etc.

It's a nice feeling, and actually, one that manifested in that Angel/Jack fic, too, where I just sat and wrote the thing. Yes, I did a lot of editing to it, but I didn't have to change anything pivotal. It was mostly just wording and making some bits stronger.


Anyway. I've finished two of those threads now (two very different but both amazingly good fun threads, one with Becky, one with Mecca) and I'm off to watch a bit of telly. And to think about which characters I might want to RP tomorrow... *g*

Comments

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

that is so weird. Morris Park Players (the community theater my son's involved in) is doing Fiddler this fall too!

So wait- you have 5 months of rehearsals?

[unfeathered]

I think it's going the rounds. Shows do that. Another local group did it here and several of us went to see it to get an idea of what it'd be like!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

it's a great musical, but one of those that you really need a strong lead. My kids are bummed they can't try out for it, but my daughter's bat mitzvah is one of the performance dates and that takes precedence.

[unfeathered]

Oh, that's a shame!

Yeah, the version we saw, the lead guy was - okay, but not fantastic. But it was very watchable.

I have no idea who will play what in our group. We seem to have a few people who just do every show no matter what but a lot more people who pick and choose carefully, so there's quite a few people I don't even know yet!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

with the groups here you have to try out and make it, there's no one who just gets in. Except for Art, a guy who has been in every single performance they've ever done and really doesn't have a clue what to do anymore, but loves acting and just being there and helping so they always find something for him to do (usually without lines though)

[unfeathered]

Yeah, we only audition for speaking parts. The chorus tends to whittle itself down to a manageable size during the first few rehearsals anyway. *g*

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

ah, so people decide it's just not worth the ammount of time spent rehearsing and whatnot?

[unfeathered]

Yeah. Or they just don't like the show enough to bother if they don't have a main part.

We had far too big a chorus for Godspell at the start of rehearsals, but it ended up just nice. We had a cast of 28 (10 principals and 18 chorus) in the end.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Were you in the chorus?