Roleplay through the Classics discussion

Claim an author here.

Jane Austen~ Ruth
Charlotte Bronte~ Ruth
Emily Bronte
William Makepeace Thackeray
Charles Dickens
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Harper Lee
Herman Melville
Robert Louis Stevenson
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Alexandre Dumas
Victor Hugo
Walter Scott
Emma Orczy
Oscar Wilde
Francis Hodgson Burnett

Please write in requests for others I haven't put up yet.

I would LOVE to be Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte.

Okey-dokey! I may take one of them away from you in the future, but for now they're yours! Would you like to be the Austen or Bronte mod?

Bronte for sure!XP

Your email address isn't verified so I can't make you a mod. :(

Just fixed it!;)

Alright. Now you're in charge of making character threads for Bronte books and moderating Bronte RPs. Don't worry, I'll help :)

Okay. So, what do I do first?

Mmm... I've already done Jane Eyre, which is C. Bronte's biggest, so you don't really have to do anything yet. Do you want to claim any of her characters?

Jane Eyre

I already have her. Go look at the Jane Eyre thread.

It is hard to choose which author to follow. What do we need to do after we adopt one or two from the list? This is so new for me. I am feeling utterly lost about how to proceed next. I have heard Charles Dickens and Mark Twain spoken a lot at the library where I volunteer part time as a sitter during the weekends when they host social events for the Never Too Late group members. Is it offensive to you if I appropriate most of my time and attention to these two authors, to learn more about their writing style? :D

OK- this is how it'll work. You pretend to be the author or character, and somehow they all get stuck together in a library....
So when you claim an author or character, you'll be writing everything from their perspective.

This sounds very challenging but fun. It seems to me that your assignment requires the readers to have a fairly incisive understanding of the psychological makeups of the characters they adopt for the meeting in the library. Initially, I thought you were more interested in studying each author's writing style. It all makes sense now. I was planning to read along with the RP, while working collaboratively on the new story with other writers from the forum, but it looks as though I will still be woefully unprepared at rendering an accurate image of my chosen characters without having finished the novel from which their lives were given light first. Here, I would like to seek your pardon in advance, knowing that it will be a nearly impossible task for me to retain the authenticity of my muses, the characters I adopt, my babies, if you will, as I am only on the first few pages of these novels you have listed in the other thread. If you are alright with it, I would like to venture into the library scene anyways to see how it plays out by doing my best. :D

Wonderful! We'll start when we have enough characters claimed.

Rhedyn, we are relying on you to lead us on this undertaking. Seriously, I don't even know where to begin. A discourse usually only needs two people to start. Unless we are aiming for a chat fest of some sort with a minimum of six? Will four suffice? I am not sure how many are enough to please the whole forum of erudite writers who share a refined taste for classical literature. :p

May I claim Oliver from Charles Dickens' novel, please? He is the only character I know at the moment. I will add others, as I learn more about the rest of the gang in the future.

Yes, when I create a thread for that book. If you could, I think it would be helpful for you to look over some other functioning RP groups and get an idea for how they work first.

I looked. They successful ones work together by holding hands and singing kumbaya in a circle around a fire.

XD

Too bad we don't have a fire, then!