Segments

[joe]

How do you go about writing them? What inspires you and how do you keep ideas fresh? How do you tell a good one or a bad one?

I've heard tons about RP writing and while still in my first year of efedding I think I have a pretty solid grasp on it for the time being (Execution is something else...). I don't think I've ever really seen much on writing segments though. I guess similar principles apply, but any advice or wisdom to pass along?

[Maverick]

Usually my philosophy for segments is to use them to do something you can't do in an RP. I will rarely do a solo segment, because that's what my RP is for. If I want a segment, I'm going to get with another handler and include someone else.

But the principle is the same. Use the segment for things you can't do with your RP.

[Deleted]

I'm open to collaborating with whoever asks, by the way. That's what I feel segs are best for.

[Ernie]

It depends on the character and what's going on. For Max Hopper, I tend to write segments when I'm in a zany mood. I remember when he was feuding with the Executioner in nbW (during the MaX-Files paranormal investigator gimmick) being somewhat inspired by Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies cartoons, trying such traps that Elmer Fudd or Wile E. Coyote might employ in order to catch what he believed to be a clone of Jason from Friday the 13th. Not under the MaX-Files gimmick, I was once inspired by a poser not coming out quite the way I wanted to do a storyline where his boots had been stolen and he had to try to find them. From there, placing up "Have You Seen Me?" posters with pictures of the boots or putting their picture on milk cartons (missing persons used to be put on the sides of milk cartons) just logically stemmed from that.

Pat Gordon, Jr. is a generally less comedic character, although I do still put different kinds of comedy in him on occasion. He's a working class guy from Boston, whose father is an Irish immigrant who used to wrestle, himself. For PGJR, I tend to comment more on events that either occur to him or happen around him. Also there's the good, old fashioned brawl segments from time to time. But it's generally more about how would he respond to X that's happened and how it either affects his honor (something he's very big on) or impacts him emotionally (such as when the Murder in FGA were sidelining his friends with injuries). When someone who was supposed to be his childhood friend was injured, he kind of flipped his wig and had an uncharacteristic meltdown, tossing around trash cans and other inanimate objects.

There are a lot of things you can do in segments, from the classic promo or fights to all sorts of other things. You just have to use your imagination and think of something that's interesting, progresses your storyline, and puts characters over.

[Anthony Bailey]

Collaborating on segments usually helps me out a great deal. Co-writing with Hopkins or AJP have gotten the creative juices flowing in the past. As long as you keep it interesting, entertaining, and realistic, there's no right or wrong way to do one in my opinion.

[[APB]]

I'm going to sound backwards. But I've never like doing segments, mostly because I'd rather play off the role that the staff is giving me. Instead of heading in my own direction.

[blackdeath]

Nov 19, 2013 18:00:32 GMT -5 [APB] said:

I'm going to sound backwards. But I've never like doing segments, mostly because I'd rather play off the role that the staff is giving me. Instead of heading in my own direction.

I am the same way