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Do you feel that role playing improves or detracts from your writing skill? How so?


I have always wanted to bring people joy with thoughtful, loved and interesting writing.

Years of role playing have finally taught me how to do this. I had always envied the other writers who were so much better at this than me, merely because I was jealous and I wanted to write like them. Soon, I learned there was only one way to do it—to just do it. And the more that I wrote and role played, the better I got at it.

All of these skills that I have learned are more than applicable, and I used them ALL while in school. I wrote my essays better, my papers better, and I chalk it down to one reason—

Role playing made me love writing, and then, because I loved to write, suddenly school assignments weren’t so bad anymore. I could find a way to engage myself while writing them—whether is was writing from someone’s perspective or writing a science paper about an amoebas digestive tract (or if it even had one). Suddenly, these assignments were fun.

Detracting from my skill? As if.

Role playing is how I show off my skill, and without it, I wouldn’t write.

I owe it to role playing.