"Bleeding" usually has a negative connotation--and I'm not saying that's right or wrong, just that it's a reality and what the term has come to mean to most RPers. It's good to relate to your character, to have common interests/traits/knowledge/experiences. "Write what you know" is a well-known phrase, and while I think it's entirely possible and actually great to use writing to explore things you don't yet fully understand, the expression does have some wisdom that you need to have SOME common ground with your character and your story in order to write something coherent and semi-believable.
It's also natural and normal to sympathize and empathize with your character, to feel their ups and downs, to cheer for your character from time to time. If you don't, you may be a little too detached from your role-play to write something that's really moving and interesting. After all, if you don't care about your character, why should your RP partners and/or readers? Personally, I think it's all about moderation and finding role-players who share your views and goals.
Some people play characters to live out their fantasies of all kinds and use RP more or less as a form of wish fulfillment. I firmly believe that this inevitably leads to OOC drama, which is something I'd rather do without. But I also firmly believe RPing to live out some fantasy, or to play a self-insert, is not inherently bad. I don't really believe there's a "wrong" reason to role-play. Role-play doesn't have to mean the same thing and work the same way for each person. People are more than welcome to pursue the things they can't have IRL via RP. It's just not what I'm seeking in my RP and therefore makes our two styles sort of incompatible, so I'd rather avoid those types, but that doesn't mean they need to stop what they're doing. I could go on, but I'd pretty much just be rehashing what I've said in this thread.
It's also natural and normal to sympathize and empathize with your character, to feel their ups and downs, to cheer for your character from time to time. If you don't, you may be a little too detached from your role-play to write something that's really moving and interesting. After all, if you don't care about your character, why should your RP partners and/or readers? Personally, I think it's all about moderation and finding role-players who share your views and goals.
Some people play characters to live out their fantasies of all kinds and use RP more or less as a form of wish fulfillment. I firmly believe that this inevitably leads to OOC drama, which is something I'd rather do without. But I also firmly believe RPing to live out some fantasy, or to play a self-insert, is not inherently bad. I don't really believe there's a "wrong" reason to role-play. Role-play doesn't have to mean the same thing and work the same way for each person. People are more than welcome to pursue the things they can't have IRL via RP. It's just not what I'm seeking in my RP and therefore makes our two styles sort of incompatible, so I'd rather avoid those types, but that doesn't mean they need to stop what they're doing. I could go on, but I'd pretty much just be rehashing what I've said in this thread.
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