I said before I would explain what Potter’s World is. So, here goes:

Potter's World is a Play-By-Post RPG (Roleplaying Game) forum. As explained on the forum: Roleplaying is the act of telling a story from your character’s point of view while other people and their character contribute to it as well. You all begin on a specific plot line with a common knowledge background, which, in this case, is the Harry Potter universe and the back story plot line which has been kindly provided by the creators of Potter’s World.

Basically, we create a character different from ourselves. The game revolves around Harry Potter’s universe, obviously, so everyone starts on the age of eleven, when you just start Hogwarts. Your character will receive the Hogwarts letter, visit Diagon Alley, get on Kings’s Cross, and eventually arrive at Hogwarts. In seven years (game time. In real life = seven months or more, depends on how often you play), you complete Hogwarts and move on to being adults. So at the heart of it, it’s like when you were a kid and play in your bedroom, pretending you were someone else. It’s loads of fun, especially if you love to write, because it’s all about description and dialogues.

My character is a boy named Kendall Atwood. I only realized later on that Kendall is a girls’ name in US, but I found it in UK boys’ name section of a website, so I stuck with it, only I had him nicknamed Ken. He’s still an ickle first year, but next Saturday he’ll be a second year. He’s fun to play, mostly because I’m not a boy, so it’s a challenge to keep him boyish and not girly. =P

Speaking of writing, I’ve been planning a novel for JulNoWriMo (July Novel Writing Month). It’s usually called NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) which takes place in November. I’ve never been able to participate because finals are always around that month, but they’re opening up another time slot this year. Basically you have to write 50,000 words in one month. You just have to write and not care about grammar, whether it makes sense or not, and all that. It’s quantity over quality, just to get you start writing. Editing can always come later. Since I’m not doing anything, I’ve decided to participate. I’ve already have a novel in works, but I’m not going to work on that this July. I know I’ll be a perfectionist if I use that one, so I’m writing a new story, but with my old characters.

I’ve already started planning up to chapter 6. I’ve never planned anything I’ve written before, so it feels strange, to say the least, but it does get me organized.

I’ll try to keep blogging when July comes around, but I make no promises. =P

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