Top Business Advice to Authors

Have you ever seen a play? You can have dozens, even hundreds of different writing actors, all coming together to work on a scene where each person contributes a little, in order to create something which is bigger than the whole.

Have you ever read a book? A very private, lonely process, that involves a single person working in an isolated manner, to be as creative as possible using nothing except the thoughts, ideas, and voices that are generated within their singular minds.

Have you ever seen improve? A narrative scene, sometimes comedic, sometimes dramatic, never scripted or rehearsed, simply played out, in real time, with each of the actors reacting to the actions and additions of their fellows to make the concerted whole form a story that they can all be proud of. It is an act of wit and clever lines, cobbled together by quickness of mind.

Role playing chat is a combination of all of these. Part theatre, part book, all happening in real time, acted without script, based only loosely on the preconceived scenes developed by the actors themselves. It is a form of play, written out by the actors, so that a type of book is developed. Stories are created on the fly, coming from the personalities and the interactions of those involved.

And in the end something unique is created.

Some call it a game. The players are, after all, intrinsically tied in a struggle against one another. The bad guys attack, the good guys defends. Wars and battle abound and rage all around. And yet in the struggle it is more about beauty then victory. A loss is not a defeat if it's handled in an interesting way. As long as the best possible story is told, nobody will ever die forever.

That's the unique nature of this beast. You don't just compete; you work together, good and evil, friend and foe, all for the creation of something greater than you. Its like a living animal, roaring, breathing, existing in a world with its own dynamic life and energy which it can contribute to the space around it.

The future of the story is being created on the tender tendrils of the web we walk. And in its wake we are seeing the birth of epic tales of love and loss. We are creating the future of the myth. We are the storytellers.

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