The online Harry Potter RPG that I will be in is still accepting applications for players to play characters. The only ones already chosen so far are Harry, Hermione, Ron and Draco. We could definitely use more players and it looks like fun. For more information go to: ready_to_fall.

I got it! I got it! (Does a silly dance around the room.)

I am now one of the main characters in a Harry Potter role playing game at:

Can you guess who I am?

So I have a weirdly interactive dream and writing life. I often dream what I write and vice versa. Even non-fiction gets edited in my brain while I am sleeping. These days I have taken to wearing ear-plugs and a black satin mask while sleeping. It is a partial sensory deprivation thing that does seem to help me sleep deeper. It also seems to heighten the dream experiences.

The other day (yes, day, since I stayed up all night and slept all day), I had a very exciting and erotic dream that I am thinking of trying to write up. Since I had been reading a lot of slash fiction, my brain wrote my own in my dreams. This one is kind of a Doctor Who, Pirates of the Caribbean and Dangerous Beauty cross-over. Part 1: Is set in the 1500s in Venice with Captain Jack Harkness meeting a beautiful but unusual woman. Part 2: Set in POTC alternate universe timeline after the first movie, begins with Captain Jack Sparrow and Will Turner meeting up again and dealing with the death of a woman. Part 3: Worlds collide when Captain Jack Harkness comes looking for a lost friend and runs into Sparrow and Turner who were the last people to see her alive. It is a little stranger than all this seems but it made sense and was very very hot. (Oh, for those who have known me a long time, I seem to have resurrected my old SCA personae of Dawn Azura in the story.)

I have been toying with writing the story up but am a bit daunted by the idea of writing dialog for Captain Jack Sparrow. If I can’t get my novel moving again soon, I may just jump into it anyway.

Okay, so I have been active role player for 27 years. (I almost can’t believe that one myself.) But I have never played an online RPG.

Ironically, I started role playing games to help my writing skills. At seventeen, I was already a published writer. Not only did I have poetry and essays published, but I had a couple short fiction works published in fanzines. Yet, I was having trouble with my dialog skills. I could write what was in my characters’ heads but had trouble with how they actually spoke. The co-editor of the fanzine I ran at the time was trying to help me with this and suggested I join a D&D group with some of the other writers.

I had been in fandom for over four years already and had been around gaming. But the idea of sitting still for hours did not appeal to me. (I was a so hyperactive then that one of the nicknames the co-editor had for me was “Flash” — as in the superspeed comic book character.) Well, we turned one of the characters I was trying to write into a D&D character and off I went. Thus was born a love of “the art of collective story telling,” also known as role playing games. I never have been into the game mechanics. My love is the story telling aspect. And since I have been blessed with game masters who made me “speak in character,” it did help with learning how to write dialog.

Back to the present, I have put in an application to play in an online Harry Potter game. The only time I have role played characters I didn’t create before was when I was the game master and using a module written by someone else. It will be something different to play a character with such an established background. On one hand, it gives me more to work with. On the other hand, I will have to make sure the character stays true to that history. It is a challenge that I would like to try.

The other fun part is that this would be a “slash” oriented RPG. Meaning that I would be playing a gay or bisexual character (if I get my choice). I know, I know, that is not much of a stretch for me given my other writing. But it would be fun! I have read a lot of slash fan fiction and have yet to share any of my own stories in that realm. (Well, at least publicly.)

I would feel guilty about devoting time to the online game instead of my publishable work if it weren’t that I have been so stuck lately. I am also hoping the fun of the game with shake loose some of the ideas I have rolling around in my head for the next scenes in the novel I am writing.

Which character would I play? Well, I have applied for one in particular and have a couple other I think I could play. But I won’t tell you until I hear back on if I get the one I want or not.

Okay, so that’s not very surprising given my LJ name and even less of new concept to those who know me. Bi & Kinky, after all.

I was on vacation without privacy or regular internet access for a couple weeks. So I have been catching up on my favorite writers and discovering some new ones.

I also got to see POTC: Dead Man’s Chest. So, of course, I have been on a POTC slash craze lately. I enjoy most the pairings, but I have been astonished to find very little Jack/Will/Elizabeth fiction. They seem a natural for triad smut. Anyone out there have any recommendations?

Meanwhile, here is one of my favorite Jack/Will fictions:
http://www15.brinkster.com/fleurdiabolique/enroute.html

I have also been flirting with the idea of writing a Jack/Jack piece with Captain Jack Sparrow and Captain Jack Harkness. Problem with me writing it is that I don’t know if I can really get Sparrow’s voice down. I was happy to find one short piece someone else wrote, but would really like to see more:

http://community.livejournal.com/dw_slash/115566.html

On the other hand, I seem to be blocked for just about all kinds of writing at the moment and it is getting mighty frustrating.