Looking for me?

I'm most likely at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/roleplayhaven/

If you're a writer (or reader) of fan fiction or original fiction, we're a six year active group of mostly middle-ish aged ladies from around the world who get together to create a wide variety of stories for our enjoyment. Our group is multi-fandom, mixed-genre and slash-friendly for your favorite movie, TV, book and original characters.

If a writer hasn't tried RP (roleplay) writing before, we're definitely the place to give it a shot. We're very easy-going there, very few rules, and the people are friendly and more than willing to help newcomers try it out.

The best way I can describe it for writers who have never tried it is to picture a sandbox, you're playing with all the characters in it by yourself. Amazing worlds you create by yourself. Lots of fun. True. But then think of how much fun it can also be if another writer climbs into the sandbox with you and divides the characters with you to play them herself "against" yours?

Now you're suddenly creating worlds together; you never know exactly what the other writer is going to do in response to the writing of your own characters. It's unpredictable and exciting in that way, lots of unexpected twists and turns, and because our group allows up to THREE of the SAME fandom (movie/TV/book) character to be written there, the chance of your favorite character already being taken isn't nearly as high as at so many other RP groups where they only allow one of each character.

We can have three Batmans, three Jethro Gibbs, three James Bonds, etc, etc, etc running around our "world". We explain it there by calling them clones. That way no James Bond written by one member is better or more "real" than another James Bond written by another member in that world. They're all seen as "clones" living in a fictional modern day setting, pulled (as in cloned) out of their movies/books/TV shows to interact and form relationships with each other and with the "regular humans" who run the city.

This makes the possibilities for storylines in that world to be very light ones or very dark ones. (i.e. broad comedy through romance to adult situations). Whatever the writers want. And there's no storyline that everyone has to be involved in and no time limits. People play where they want when they want and how they want with who they want. We're a very active and long time group, quite a few storylines going on at the same time, and we tell people to just delete, delete, delete those threads (storylines) that hold no interest to them and only concentrate on the ones they like.

And if people prefer playing original characters rather than fandom characters, that's great too. We have a mix of both. We only ask, one of the very few rules of the group, is that all characters (and members) be at least 18 years of age. So if you're new or old to roleplaying (or even to writing) we hope you'll try us out. You can always unsub if you decide we're not the place for you.

P.S. Lurkers are quite welcome! goss64@myfairpoint.net