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[attr="class","ic_year"]Writing Letters
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CONTENT
⚊ All letters are to be written in first person.
⚊ All letters should be written in the style, tone and vocabulary that you might expect your character to use. Remember to include whether or not they might misspell words through poor education or use incorrect grammar or punctuation. Yes, we're writing in English rather than their native language but we can at least show their capability of their native written tongue through the use of our own.
⚊ All letters should be begun and concluded like a normal letter - aka "To So-and-So" and "Kind Regards X".
⚊ All letters, like posts, should be written with only the knowledge and understanding of the character writing them. While you can occasionally slip into omniscient third person when in rp posts, you cannot do this in letters.
STRUCTURE
⚊ Each letter should have its own thread in this board. This is so that a staff member can post a response to it to indicate that it is interceded or never sent (if the message is a draft) before others post. It also gives a stronger impression of what letters were like - often missing, garbled or separated by long time periods. Unless people wrote two copies of their letters, they would not have editions of their own and the correspondence would read disjointed. The use of a separate thread per letter helps to create this allusion or feel. It also encourages this board to "feel" like a different type of rping to the other roleplay boards.
⚊ Each letter thread should be entitled with its address - eg. Missive to Lord Alehandros of Antonis.
⚊ Members may post drafts of letters in this board to show character development. Please indicate these with [DRAFT] at the start of the letter title and simply use the opening line as the title eg. [Draft] To Lord Alehandros.
⚊ The only instance in which the letter-per-thread rule can be exempt is if you are posting a series of letters that have happened in the past for Character Development purposes. Rather than spam the board back and forth in quick succession, with different dates to all the other letters, these can be posted in a thread, one after the other and should be entitled with [PAST] at the start of their thread with the two people communicating back and forth - eg. [PAST] Lord Alehandros and Lady Sotiria.
⚊ All letters should have their dates chosen carefully, based on when a character has actually sent them. Please remember that letters could be delivered within a single day between two houses in a city but could take weeks to be delivered one day across kingdoms. Choose the dates of your letters appropriately.
- WRITING LETTERS: THE RULES -
CONTENT
⚊ All letters are to be written in first person.
⚊ All letters should be written in the style, tone and vocabulary that you might expect your character to use. Remember to include whether or not they might misspell words through poor education or use incorrect grammar or punctuation. Yes, we're writing in English rather than their native language but we can at least show their capability of their native written tongue through the use of our own.
⚊ All letters should be begun and concluded like a normal letter - aka "To So-and-So" and "Kind Regards X".
⚊ All letters, like posts, should be written with only the knowledge and understanding of the character writing them. While you can occasionally slip into omniscient third person when in rp posts, you cannot do this in letters.
STRUCTURE
⚊ Each letter should have its own thread in this board. This is so that a staff member can post a response to it to indicate that it is interceded or never sent (if the message is a draft) before others post. It also gives a stronger impression of what letters were like - often missing, garbled or separated by long time periods. Unless people wrote two copies of their letters, they would not have editions of their own and the correspondence would read disjointed. The use of a separate thread per letter helps to create this allusion or feel. It also encourages this board to "feel" like a different type of rping to the other roleplay boards.
⚊ Each letter thread should be entitled with its address - eg. Missive to Lord Alehandros of Antonis.
⚊ Members may post drafts of letters in this board to show character development. Please indicate these with [DRAFT] at the start of the letter title and simply use the opening line as the title eg. [Draft] To Lord Alehandros.
⚊ The only instance in which the letter-per-thread rule can be exempt is if you are posting a series of letters that have happened in the past for Character Development purposes. Rather than spam the board back and forth in quick succession, with different dates to all the other letters, these can be posted in a thread, one after the other and should be entitled with [PAST] at the start of their thread with the two people communicating back and forth - eg. [PAST] Lord Alehandros and Lady Sotiria.
⚊ All letters should have their dates chosen carefully, based on when a character has actually sent them. Please remember that letters could be delivered within a single day between two houses in a city but could take weeks to be delivered one day across kingdoms. Choose the dates of your letters appropriately.
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