RP vs. Writing

Ok, Mister Reaper and I seem to have a bit of a disagreement. He says that RP is not writing and writing is not RP. I say that RP is just collaborative writing... So what you guys think? Vote in the poll above and comment below with your own viewpoints and arguments.

RP is writing. RPing has vastly improved my fanfiction writing/original skills and vice versa. RP=Roleplay. When JK Rowling was writing Harry Potter, she was roleplaying Harry Potter. When I roleplay Nightkill, I write his motivations, emotions, etc.

Just a brief two cents.

collaborative writing is the same as plainly writing because in the case (exp. a book, a movie, a television show) it still winds up having the same ending and completely controlled courses of events. I believe that the differance between an RP and writing is just like the differance between a play and sports.

Nightkill wrote:RP is writing. RPing has vastly improved my fanfiction writing/original skills and vice versa. RP=Roleplay. When JK Rowling was writing Harry Potter, she was roleplaying Harry Potter. When I roleplay Nightkill, I write his motivations, emotions, etc.

Just a brief two cents.

I completely agree with Nightkill there. Roleplaying has improved my writing skills so much... and everything else he said. XD

To roleplay is so far different from wrighting because if you think about it this sight could be some were in real life how people say act like knight/ role play. One thing is when you wright you are just telling what happens where and whats going on and you have to follow the story line or everything is messed up. With roleplaying you have more free room you get to do all that and more like say mix up personalities or go and have more fun in descriptions and you can venture off a little without messing up the story line. So i would say they are DIFFERENT.

Not much to say here, Nightkill pretty much got my opinion on the nail.

RP is RP.
Writing is writing.

In my opinion, writing in most cases is easier than RPing especially when RPing with people of varying skill. With Rping you are working as one part of the author while when writing period your the whole author.

Rping, i think, is more like scripting than writing. Then again, writing is such a wide catagory that rping would still probably be considered writing. Writing i guess would cover all forms of written literature like poems or even music so in essence rping is writing because writing is a wide catagory in which everything could fit under.

So yes, I agree that RPing is writing.

It's a pickle situation. RP is writing, but writing doesn't have to be RP.

Freeform RP is writing. I've never met a writer who would agree writing a story has a "completely controlled ending or course of events." Do you really think any book has ended exactly the way the author had in mind when he or she began? No, because you're writing for characters and characters are living things that change regardless of what you want. RP only amplifies this by forcing your characters and ideas to interact with those of other writers, not creates it.

The skillset is the same, which is why RP is a great way to improve writing skills. There are rules that only apply to RP, because any time you do things with other people new rules have to apply. Just like playing a game multiplayer instead of single player, there will be certain etiquette.

A pickle is always a cucumber, but a cucumber doesn't have to be a pickle. It's in no way like a sport vs. a play, because it's not two wildly different things. Rehearsing Hamlet doesn't involve any baseball skills or make you better at playing baseball. If anything, writing is sports in general, while freeform rp is a specific sport. Writing is the broad genre, freeform is a specific way to do it.

rp does not have to be in writing it can be like all those camps in real that have all the geeks in mid age armor. I want to go to one so i can see what it is like.

Mr. BigMac wrote:rp does not have to be in writing it can be like all those camps in real that have all the geeks in mid age armor. I want to go to one so i can see what it is like.

Larping. but I believe it is implied that we're talking about freeform roleplay, which is what we do on the site..

If you recall they were not down to spcifics and all i done was state that rp did not have to be writing alone.

Nightkill wrote:RP is writing. RPing has vastly improved my fanfiction writing/original skills and vice versa. RP=Roleplay. When JK Rowling was writing Harry Potter, she was roleplaying Harry Potter. When I roleplay Nightkill, I write his motivations, emotions, etc.

Just a brief two cents.

Right on the head. NightKill is right here. When you RP, you effectively step into that role, whether it be 'turn based' or just writing. You still take on a role by stepping into that characters shoes and seeing the world and environment around it with your own mind. They are essentially the same thing and come from the same pool of creation that is the imagination.

Agreed with NightKill. I have a whole trilogy based off of a RP character who started out on a small rp chat room.