Post by Alexias on Mar 2, 2009 22:55:09 GMT -5
This is basically a helpful little guide for those of you who might wish to use it. From beginner to advanced role players, these are tips you could all stand to have a look at and use! 
Proper Grammar and Spelling
- Quotes ( “ ” ) should be used whenever your character speaks vocally.
- Apostrophes ( ‘ ’ ) should only be used when inside quotes. (Ex. “‘This’ is the proper usage,” and ‘this’ is not.)
- Thoughts should be put in italics to signify they're thoughts.
- Thoughts or quotes in apostrophes are incorrect.
- Changing font colors does not affect your writing whatsoever. This is just for looks and doesn't act as apostrophes or anything else.
- Vocal words in quotes can be in bold if you so choose.
- Only book titles are underlined; nothing else should ever be underlined.
- To emphasize something you use italics.
- Strike-outs should only be used in OOC or for humor purposes.
- Alignment (centering, justifying, etc.) doesn't matter at all.
- Putting posts in block quotes doesn't matter, either.
- Paragraphs should be used correctly; don't use excessive returns! (Aka. Putting a return after ever single sentence is wrong.)
- Use paragraphs if needed; don't post something in a colossal word chunk.
- Never use two periods to end a sentence or trail a thought (Ex. “That's it..”)!
- Periods like so “...” can show afterthought or a soft ending to a sentence (Ex. “That was amazing... Incredible.”).
- “. . .” are an ellipses which means the words after should be substantial (Ex. “I went to my sister's house this weekend . . . she's crazy.”).
- “. . . .” show a drawn-out ending with no concluding thought thereafter. Think of it the same way as a period, but with a softer ending. They're usually used at the end of a paragraph.
- Hyphens (-) and dashes (—) are two completely different things; hyphens join things whereas dashes separate them. Two hyphens (--) can stand for a dash, but one hyphen, standing alone, does not. Spaces should not come after dashes (-- or —). (— is Alt 0151.)
- You're stands for "you are"; your shows possession of you. Its is the possessive form of it; it’s stands for "it is."
Colors and Descriptive Words
General Color Adjectives
rich, deep, pale, dark, medium, light, warm, cool, vibrant, soft, delicate, strong, earthy, clear, ghostly, dusty, livid, electric, brilliant, bright
Black
raven, coal, dusky, dingy, murky, inky, somber, swarthy, jet, ebony, pitch-black, charcoal, midnight, Cromcoal
Blue
Harper, indigo, sapphire, turquoise, lapis lazuli, aquamarine, blue-black, azure, sky, royal, Prussian, navy, powder, baby, cobalt, midnight, twilight, beryl
Brown
tan, bay, chestnut, nutbrown, copper, mahogany, bronze, russet, chocolate, klah, cinnamon, hazel, reddish, sorrel, sepia, tawny, ochre, rust, puce, fawn, liver-colored, beige, dust, khaki, cocoa, umber, brick, ginger, auburn, buff, toasted, skybroom, cedar, oak, dun, sandy
Green
emerald, blue-green, sage, aquamarine, chartreuse, lime, kelly, apple, bronze-green, yellow-green, bottle, pea, sea, grass, forest, spinach, moss, pine, olive, jade, khaki
Grey
Cromcoal, drab, neutral, dusky, silvery, dingy, somber, shaded, leaden, ashen, blue-grey, smoke, slate, bat, mouse, iron, salt and pepper, cloudy, charcoal
Orange
apricot, tangerine, burnt, peach, coral, salmon, coral, ocherous, reddish, fiery
Pink
rose, blush, roseate, salmon, shocking, fuscia, wine-rose, sunrise
Purple
Healer, lilac, violet, mauve, heliotrope, magenta, plum, lavender, puce, pomegranate, royal, wine, maroon, twilight
Red
scarlet, carmine, vermillion, crimson, cerise, cherry, ruby, garnet, maroon, brick, claret, rust, coral, blood, russet, terra cotta, bittersweet, hyacinth, magenta, caldron, aniline, rose, redfruit, tomato, fiery, cerulean, angry
White
ivory, snow or snowy, frosted, milk, chalk, pearl, blanched, ashen, stark, silvery, blue-white, bleach, cloud
Yellow
cream, ivory, old ivory, tan, lemon, orange-yellow, saffron, jasmine, tawny, sand, sallow, buff, gold, golden, platinum, carmine, madder, ocher, flaxen, wheat-coloured, fellis-flower, sunlight, fiery
Commonly Misspelled Words
Proper Grammar and Spelling
- Quotes ( “ ” ) should be used whenever your character speaks vocally.
- Apostrophes ( ‘ ’ ) should only be used when inside quotes. (Ex. “‘This’ is the proper usage,” and ‘this’ is not.)
- Thoughts should be put in italics to signify they're thoughts.
- Thoughts or quotes in apostrophes are incorrect.
- Changing font colors does not affect your writing whatsoever. This is just for looks and doesn't act as apostrophes or anything else.
- Vocal words in quotes can be in bold if you so choose.
- Only book titles are underlined; nothing else should ever be underlined.
- To emphasize something you use italics.
- Strike-outs should only be used in OOC or for humor purposes.
- Alignment (centering, justifying, etc.) doesn't matter at all.
- Putting posts in block quotes doesn't matter, either.
- Paragraphs should be used correctly; don't use excessive returns! (Aka. Putting a return after ever single sentence is wrong.)
- Use paragraphs if needed; don't post something in a colossal word chunk.
- Never use two periods to end a sentence or trail a thought (Ex. “That's it..”)!
- Periods like so “...” can show afterthought or a soft ending to a sentence (Ex. “That was amazing... Incredible.”).
- “. . .” are an ellipses which means the words after should be substantial (Ex. “I went to my sister's house this weekend . . . she's crazy.”).
- “. . . .” show a drawn-out ending with no concluding thought thereafter. Think of it the same way as a period, but with a softer ending. They're usually used at the end of a paragraph.
- Hyphens (-) and dashes (—) are two completely different things; hyphens join things whereas dashes separate them. Two hyphens (--) can stand for a dash, but one hyphen, standing alone, does not. Spaces should not come after dashes (-- or —). (— is Alt 0151.)
- You're stands for "you are"; your shows possession of you. Its is the possessive form of it; it’s stands for "it is."
Colors and Descriptive Words
General Color Adjectives
rich, deep, pale, dark, medium, light, warm, cool, vibrant, soft, delicate, strong, earthy, clear, ghostly, dusty, livid, electric, brilliant, bright
Black
raven, coal, dusky, dingy, murky, inky, somber, swarthy, jet, ebony, pitch-black, charcoal, midnight, Cromcoal
Blue
Harper, indigo, sapphire, turquoise, lapis lazuli, aquamarine, blue-black, azure, sky, royal, Prussian, navy, powder, baby, cobalt, midnight, twilight, beryl
Brown
tan, bay, chestnut, nutbrown, copper, mahogany, bronze, russet, chocolate, klah, cinnamon, hazel, reddish, sorrel, sepia, tawny, ochre, rust, puce, fawn, liver-colored, beige, dust, khaki, cocoa, umber, brick, ginger, auburn, buff, toasted, skybroom, cedar, oak, dun, sandy
Green
emerald, blue-green, sage, aquamarine, chartreuse, lime, kelly, apple, bronze-green, yellow-green, bottle, pea, sea, grass, forest, spinach, moss, pine, olive, jade, khaki
Grey
Cromcoal, drab, neutral, dusky, silvery, dingy, somber, shaded, leaden, ashen, blue-grey, smoke, slate, bat, mouse, iron, salt and pepper, cloudy, charcoal
Orange
apricot, tangerine, burnt, peach, coral, salmon, coral, ocherous, reddish, fiery
Pink
rose, blush, roseate, salmon, shocking, fuscia, wine-rose, sunrise
Purple
Healer, lilac, violet, mauve, heliotrope, magenta, plum, lavender, puce, pomegranate, royal, wine, maroon, twilight
Red
scarlet, carmine, vermillion, crimson, cerise, cherry, ruby, garnet, maroon, brick, claret, rust, coral, blood, russet, terra cotta, bittersweet, hyacinth, magenta, caldron, aniline, rose, redfruit, tomato, fiery, cerulean, angry
White
ivory, snow or snowy, frosted, milk, chalk, pearl, blanched, ashen, stark, silvery, blue-white, bleach, cloud
Yellow
cream, ivory, old ivory, tan, lemon, orange-yellow, saffron, jasmine, tawny, sand, sallow, buff, gold, golden, platinum, carmine, madder, ocher, flaxen, wheat-coloured, fellis-flower, sunlight, fiery
Commonly Misspelled Words
- acceptable
- accidentally
- accommodate
- acquire
- acquit
- a lot
- amateur
- apparent
- argument
- believe
- calendar
- category
- changeable
- collectible
- column
- committed
- conscience
- conscientious
- conscious
- consensus
- definite (ly)
- discipline
- drunkenness
- embarrass (ment)
- equipment
- exhilarate
- exceed
- existence
- experience
- fiery
- foreign
- gauge
- grateful
- guarantee
- harass
- height
- hierarchy
- humorous
- ignorance
- immediate
- independent
- indispensable
- inoculate
- intelligence
- its/it's
- jewelry
- judgment
- leisure
- license
- lightning
- maintenance
- maneuver
- memento
- miniature
- minuscule
- mischievous
- neighbor
- noticeable
- occasionally
- occurrence
- pastime
- perseverance
- personnel
- possession
- precede
- principal/principle
- privilege
- pronunciation
- publicly
- questionnaire
- receive
- recommend
- referred
- reference
- relevant
- rhyme
- rhythm
- schedule
- separate
- supersede
- their/they're/there
- threshold
- to/too
- twelfth
- tyranny
- until
- whether/weather
- weird