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How text based gaming can improve your writing skills
By Sara S. Piedade
The online text based games have the advantage to exercise the players' writing skills and their capacity to provoke and offer response, due the real-time interaction with other players.
The majority of the MMORPGs are set in English/American that imposes a difficulty to those that have a foreign idiom as their main one, however at the same time offers an entertaining way to learn how to use a language and write it.
Firan is a newbie and foreign friendly mush where I have been mushing for nearly four years and during that time I verified a considerable increase in my vocabulary and improvement in my writing. It is an experience that it can only be obtain when playing in a non elitist text game. For example, at Firan it is easy to find people of different nationalities and there is tolerance when it comes to the use of proper spelling and grammar, not being as judgmental.
Players, like me, have discovered that mushing is not only a way to spend an enjoyable time but also a great educational tool. We learn by example. It is easy to identify those to which writing is also a talent. We also learn by asking. Innumerous were the times I had to ask what certain word or expression would mean, when in my own language it make not sense or a translation didn't even exist. I can say that in Firan I had the good fortune to find the support of players that willingly offered to explain those and other details that only a native speaker truly understands.
It is not only a great way to better oneself in particular language if being foreign but also to exercise a writer's skill. It takes more than good ideas and the knowledge on how to use correct spelling and grammar to become a writer. Those that inspire to be writers through interaction with other players can notice what the type of writing is more captivating.
It is common to read the comments of MUD players that for the first time try a MUSH and notice a difference of expression. At Firan, like in many mushes, the descriptions of the actions of our characters are more elaborated in order to transmit the feelings, moods and sensations to the other players that will react accordingly to what it was written. Obviously to write 'Hestia walks to the market to buy something to eat.' is not the same as writing 'With her head down and a mopey expression, Hestia slowly walks towards the market and its food stands in search of a meal. A hand on her stomach tries to in vain suffocate the hungry sounds that come from underneath.' The response provoke by one pose and by the other would be undoubtedly different.
It aids and reinforces writing that displays and invokes the use of the senses. With time it becomes a natural way of writing, gifting the readers with what they tend to look for and enjoy when reading a book.
MUSHes, such as Firan, are perfect to have fun and learn how to better write either in a language that is not our own or even to experiment different methods of writing, notice which seems to appeal more to other players while in role play and make use of that knowledge to perhaps write a successful essay or book.
Sara, player of of FiranMUX
firan.legendary.org 5000 (69.93.21.154 5000)
About the Author
Sara is a Portuguese working-student that enjoys learning and activities that allow self-expression like writing, drawing and dancing.
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