Role-players are authors. They bring characters to life through a first person perspective.
Fan-fiction writers are authors. Authors who re-imagine or re-event a universe with new or otherwise untold stories.
Both are educators. They can give us examples of good as well as bad writing.
They may be competitive, passionate, and driven, but so are a lot of established authors and other professionals. I believe that role-players and fan-fiction authors can be just as creative and just as good as the authors who get their work published for profit. They are fanatics, and love what they are writing about or for, or they otherwise wouldn't be doing it. It's not a job. It's not something they get paid to do. It's essentially a hobby with its core in creative writing.
Both fan-ficiton authors and role-players are story tellers, just as published authors are. Their stories may take a different approach, style, or arc, but the concept is the same.
Some people learn by participation. Fan fiction and role-playing allow someone to participate in a theme they enjoy. Reading these works can also be used as a tool to see what works and what does not. Both fan fiction and role-playing can be used as tools for educating others about writing and storytelling.
Fan-fiction authors may not be credited as being inventive as published authors, but role-players can certainly be inventive. A character could be the sole creation of the role-player. Its past, its present, and its future all at the hands at the person dawning the role. The characters story is told through the role-player portraying the character. The role-player is the driving force behind it. The authority. The author.
Fan-fiction may take place in a universe already created. How is this different from directors or screen-writers re-creating the Star Trek universe time and time again? How about Christopher Nolan's interpretation of Batman? In fan-fiction the characters may be familiar but they're under new control, and new direction. The writer is again the authority. The director. The author.
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