The RPG and Creative Writing
Movement of Elftown
Sponsored by the WFR Guild of Elftown
Of Polyhieronia

WFR: Wiki Fiction Roleplayers
Elftown's first and official Creative Writing, Fiction, Gaming, Arts & Anachronism Guild of Elftown


Official Elftown Contests:
Official Role-Playing Tournament (Champion's Tournament - Contestants & Patrons' Challenge)
ECM : the Elftown Creature Marathon


Supported Pages:
RPG Realm
Role Playing for Dummies
Elftown Clans & the Creature_List
Text Adventures & Games


     This is not your average Poets' Society. Get your wits, lips, fingertips, khopesh, laser gun, EMP filter, masterwork chain mail, and calligraphic pen out; you're going to need them all. Turn back now and wish for death.

     the-roleplay-initiative@wiki is a movement of Elftowners who wish to do more with their wikipage Role-Play areasas well as those with a general need to write creatively. 'tri' as abbreviated, will also be instigating a proposal in the way the user-interface of Elftown could potentially be upgraded to make for better communication, networking, and of course, role-playing. Included in this proposal will be a full upgrade to the already advanced wikipage systems which will give players and moderators more options for how best to mediate and moderate wikipage games and activities.

     The Roleplay Initiative will assist in making Elftown's wikipages and user-interface more adaptable from a RPGer's and/or member's perspective. This group will also actively involve itself in Creative Writing methods and activities, including Role-Playing, Game Hosting, Community Events and more. The purpose of the group will be to Take Elftown Back, as well as to make roleplaying in general a more notorious element of the Elftown subcultures. There has been shown a need to do more with the Town, and this movement will embrace that need.

     What is ANACHRONISM, you say? Go learn, you!  :::: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/anachronism

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     A Creative Writing Guild will work on:
   - how best to write an effective and creative presentation or writing:
  > Effective Writing and Presentation
   - methods of writing:
  > Writing Methods and Styles
   - styles of writing (above)
   - word and grammar games and challenges
   - writing in round (Open-forum or free-form Wikipage role-playing)
   - writing in code
   - writing in verse
   - writing in context
   - historical writing methods
   - art compositions (literary and visual elements, and an overlap with visual literacy)
   - character development and perspective
   - location defining and setting development
   - writing in time/timelining
   - pacing
   - anagrams
   - empathic writing
   - and other ideas that our RPG Realm members, WFR Guild Members and RP Council come up with together.

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[xido] rambling ideas out loud:

Continue Integrating (from email):
     This is often a venue for our members to develop how to write, but also how to make their writings more interesting and daring. I have found a lot of students are afraid to post something that is more daring than a letter to the customer, and it is because of the 'professional' atmosphere that they are afraid to break with humor or a fun writing submission. This group (or Guild, if we get that far) would be able to find help with English FAQs and problems, plus it would provide a platform for students to post personal writing of a non-poetry form, including short stories and in-progress writings they would like reviewed by peers.

     I currently run a creative writing and roleplay group online, and we have had pleasant results, even among younger members (we have nearly half of our guild population under 18 years of age). Word games and challenges, along with our most popular writing in round, are the most popular activities, but a true guild always works in open forum settings to have fully integrated discussions on the topics at hand. We like to do personal work when doing character development, but we also have a Show-and-Tell method of discussing character strengths and weaknesses, and potential developments and methods, as well as ways of exhibiting the character's personality in various explicit and implicit manners. I have yet to define ways of working on story segments, or rising/falling action with members. An english instructor and/or literary application professional would be a great moderator for this group, especially someone with experience in both fiction and non-fiction works.

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[xido] nominates [Kim_Lundin] as the Madraven (Guild Lead Organizer) of 2008, and invites him publicly to apprentice under a lead Guild member and/or myself to seek and attain this title by July 2008, or at his discretion. See (poll) for an opportunity to include your input in this decision. (agree, disagree, who is Kim?, I have input or concerns, why not someone else? - as options)