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Aug
21

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Alien Week at SciFi Ideas

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Alien Week - SciFi IdeasFrom August 26th to September 2nd, the website SciFi Ideas (www.scifiideas.com) will be hosting a special event entitled ‘Alien Week’. The event encourages writers and roleplayers to share their ideas for alien species and includes an alien profile writing competition.

What is SciFi Ideas?

SciFi Ideas is all about the free exchange of ideas. We encourage writers and roleplayers to share their ideas on our website (www.scifiideas.com) for the purpose of inspiring others, sparking discussion, and generating feedback for amateur writers. Sharing an idea on SciFi Ideas is also a great way to build interest in, and promote, your science fiction stories and games. Read More

Jun
28

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Moderator Appreciation Day – July 1st

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DavidDo you appreciate your moderators? If you haven’t shown your appreciation, there’s now a full day where you’re encouraged to show your appreciation. This article is written by Kim, the creator and admin of RPrepository.com, a social network devoted to Roleplayers and their characters. Despite its huge range of unique features, feedback from its community of thousands consistently names the open, friendly atmosphere as the #1 thing they treasure about the site.

Kim from RP Repository

Kim from RP Repository

The internet is an unruly and sometimes dangerous place. When you find an oasis where people are friendly and capable of having civil discussions, you know you’ve found something special. Often these utopias are ephemeral, here one year and then gone the next. To survive its own success, an internet oasis needs some truly great moderators to prevent its culture from drying up.

As the admin of a large roleplay site, the RP repository, I have the pleasure of working with an outstanding moderating team. Every month, I hear from countless users who have nightmare stories about the behaviors of other moderators on other sites. And I hear how surprised they are to have discovered a place where they can be on friendly terms with the moderators, rather than living in terror of them. It’s enormously tragic that these tales of moderation woe are so common, but not surprising. Read More

Jun
20

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Announcing First Person Fortnight

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First person fortnight

First Person Fortnight is a 2-week event where writers and roleplayers are encouraged to write a story in first person perspective. Submit your story to us to be judged by a panel of expert writing ninjas! (I’ll post a link to a form where you can submit your story closer to the event).

First person perspective isn’t usually used, in favour of third person perspective, so this will be a good exercise to get inside your character’s head and really get to grasp with how they think, and their outlook on life. If you’re not familiar with writing like this, give it a go, it’s only for 2 weeks! If you write like this all the time, great! You’ll find it even easier!

First person fortnight will take place between the 8th – 22nd of July. If you’re writing in that week, make sure you’re writing first person. Read More

May
11

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News from SciWorld

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As promised,  there will be continuing coverage of the events of SciWorld…last night in the opening ceremony, David Ball and Tigra Tigress were awarded the Ongoing Worlds Distinguished Service Medals for their work in simming.  

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May
10

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A quick guide to accessing SciWorld

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SciWorld

SciWorld is an online convention for roleplayers, taking place in a chatroom. There are two main rooms, each with a different topic of conversation. You can see the full schedule here.

Chat room #1: Click here to open 

Chat room #2: Click here to open

I’m a bit of an IRC novice, it all seemed a bit weird and old-fashioned to me until I gave it a try recently. If you’re experienced with IRC then you can probably ignore this instructions. But if you’re a beginner (like me tbh!) I’ve listed some of the most important things here. Read More

May
10

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SciWorld Starts Tonight

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SciWorld 2012 begins tonight at 7:30 pm, EST and as such at the time of this writing is 12 hours away. After several hard long months of planning all we are waiting for is time to count down. During the event, we will work hard to provide you continuing coverage here (and maybe Facebook). This is about having fun so go out, take a friend or two with you and make some new ones as well as we have the festivities that we are proud to call SciWorld 2012, the tenth SciWorld in history.

May
9

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SciWorld starts Thursday

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SciWorld

Don’t forget about SciWorld, the online chat convention for roleplayers starts thursday (tomorrow) at 23:30 GMT (7:30pm EDT).

The opening ceremony will be hosted by Chas Hammer, followed by hour-long chat events.

SciWorld is spread across 3 nights, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, each starting at different times so make sure you see the schedule so you don’t miss your favourite events.

The events range from chats about TV shows, specific topics about roleplaying and actual roleplaying sessions. Read More

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