Post by bad guy™ on Jul 13, 2011 19:19:07 GMT -5
So...here's the deal. I had a chat with TRW and he gave me his blessing to put this up here for a sticky since...well...we've gotten to the point where it's become a necessity for the board to get some recruitment for the WFWF. I know Zeke did this last year for his board and it worked for him for the most part, so I'm hoping lightning will strike twice.
The WFWF's in need of people. Desperately. What was once a flourishing e-fed legitimately renowned among the web as one of the best around has been downsized. Severely. The core people that helped build the fed to make it one of the best have left. They were here when WF opened, and are now moving on. They've lost interest in wrestling, they've lost interest in writing, they've got to really focus on their school/life...you know, stuff happens. But you see, that's where the problem is. Imagine watching WWE Raw, and having to see only Cena vs. Punk and R-Truth vs. Evan Bourne every week for about two/three months straight. WFWF's sort of in that pickle. We have about...say, 8 active people in WFWF right now. Times are tough, and I give all of them credit for sticking around in the tough times down there, but you know...I'm not counting on any of them to stick around if the numbers don't pick up and quite frankly, I don't blame them one bit. It'd be insanity to have to essentially write the same thing every week against the same people. It needs to remain fresh. We need new blood.
I've been around WF in general for a while, and have talked and gotten to know many of my fellow members, and most of them who I have talked to...well, they don't ever check out any of the other boards but the one board they came to WF for anymore, and because of that, boards like WFWF, PSF, Fantasy Booking etcetera take huge hits.
The WFWF, for anyone who doesn't know, is WF's resident E-Fed down at the bottom of the forum, right above the video games. It was established, if from what others have told me is correct, in 2002. When it started, there were some great guys there who are still talked about in the inner circle of e-fedding today. You'll learn that e-feds, we're a pretty tight knit community all in our own...everyone knows everyone, but now I'm starting to rant...haha. Back on topic, the WFWF's gone through some good times and some bad. It's gone through massive booms and times where it's absolutely dead. We're currently in that dead period, and need some help reviving it.
Anyways, more about the WFWF itself. As stated, it's an e-fed that's run by myself and sonstuds, and we've been in charge of the board for about two years strong now. In regards to what it is, it's an e-fed. Some people know what that is, some don't. An e-fed is sort of like an all inclusive sim, or that's how I've thought of it anyways. When you start out, you have to create an original character...this is the most important step. We're what's called an RP based fed, which means in order for you to succeed, you need to be able to write Rps, or Role Plays, for your character...which means you need to create a character you think that you can write with/as, and not have to constantly overhaul/repackage him every few weeks. Your character can be anything you want him/her to be. Currently off the top of my head, we've recently had a minister character who believes God's sent him on a mission to cleanse pro wrestling of sin, a man who woke up from a head trauma injury having split personality disorder which made him half normal, and his other personality was a Hollywood socialite, we had a couple of what we call comedy characters which one was a combination of all of the corny 80's martial arts movie main characters and the other was a...well I still haven't figured out WHAT he was but he was some kind of time traveler. The whole point of the character creation is to have fun with making a character from scratch...their backstory is all up to you, everything is up to you about them.
Once you create your character, you'll get booked on a show that we call a card. From there, you'll have about 10 days to write one of those RPs I mentioned. What's an RP? It's whatever you want it to be, again. Think of it like a filmed day-in-the-life of your character. There are no length requirements...you can write a half of a page, you can write 30 pages...whatever you feel you need to get your guys point across. What is your guys point? Once more, that's up to you. I'll use myself as an example. I was facing a guy this past card, and I wanted to get the point across in my RP that the opponents guy always trashed me, but that in all honesty, the two of the characters...they're not all that different. Called him a glorified hypocrite, got in a few verbal jabs at him, and that was it. Once the ten days pass by, sonstuds and myself will read over every RP posted, comment with our opinions and critiques, and we'll talk with each other for council and decide on who out of every match had the better RP, thus granting them the win. So we're fair, any match he's in he doesn't judge, and I don't judge any matches I'm personally in. If one person in a match posts an RP and one doesn't, then the one who posted wins by default.
But from there, again, it's all up to you. You can work out stories, feuds...all of it with fellow WFWF peeps...it's really all up to you guys.
I'm sorry if this seems like a whole hell of a read. Honestly, this may seem complicated, but I'm begging you to give it a try at the very least. If you have a love of wrestling, writing, creative or all three, you should really enjoy it. Again, it may or may not seem complicated at first...but I promise you when you do it for a month or two, it'll become second nature. I remember when I started, I sucked royal ass. I was TERRIBLE. But now, how much later...I'm a better RPr, writer...all of it, because of it. As they say, practice makes perfect.
Pretty much, this was a glorified crash course. I've left out so many possible answers to questions, but I'm leaving that up to you to ask. You can ask any and all questions you may have here. There are no stupid questions, and sonstuds and myself would love to work with you if you're even at all remotely interested. We're small in number, but everyone there's good people. If I can't answer a question, one of the other guys will, no worries~!
So yeah...ask away.
Important links:
Fellow boss-man sonstuds: wfigs.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=viewprofile&user=sonstuds
WFWF Board: wfigs.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=wfwfrp
Character bio to fill out (middle of page, copy/paste to Word or whatever): wfigs.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=wfwfrpovcrv&action=display&thread=85099
Where to post completed bio: wfigs.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=wfwfrpovcrv
The WFWF's in need of people. Desperately. What was once a flourishing e-fed legitimately renowned among the web as one of the best around has been downsized. Severely. The core people that helped build the fed to make it one of the best have left. They were here when WF opened, and are now moving on. They've lost interest in wrestling, they've lost interest in writing, they've got to really focus on their school/life...you know, stuff happens. But you see, that's where the problem is. Imagine watching WWE Raw, and having to see only Cena vs. Punk and R-Truth vs. Evan Bourne every week for about two/three months straight. WFWF's sort of in that pickle. We have about...say, 8 active people in WFWF right now. Times are tough, and I give all of them credit for sticking around in the tough times down there, but you know...I'm not counting on any of them to stick around if the numbers don't pick up and quite frankly, I don't blame them one bit. It'd be insanity to have to essentially write the same thing every week against the same people. It needs to remain fresh. We need new blood.
I've been around WF in general for a while, and have talked and gotten to know many of my fellow members, and most of them who I have talked to...well, they don't ever check out any of the other boards but the one board they came to WF for anymore, and because of that, boards like WFWF, PSF, Fantasy Booking etcetera take huge hits.
The WFWF, for anyone who doesn't know, is WF's resident E-Fed down at the bottom of the forum, right above the video games. It was established, if from what others have told me is correct, in 2002. When it started, there were some great guys there who are still talked about in the inner circle of e-fedding today. You'll learn that e-feds, we're a pretty tight knit community all in our own...everyone knows everyone, but now I'm starting to rant...haha. Back on topic, the WFWF's gone through some good times and some bad. It's gone through massive booms and times where it's absolutely dead. We're currently in that dead period, and need some help reviving it.
Anyways, more about the WFWF itself. As stated, it's an e-fed that's run by myself and sonstuds, and we've been in charge of the board for about two years strong now. In regards to what it is, it's an e-fed. Some people know what that is, some don't. An e-fed is sort of like an all inclusive sim, or that's how I've thought of it anyways. When you start out, you have to create an original character...this is the most important step. We're what's called an RP based fed, which means in order for you to succeed, you need to be able to write Rps, or Role Plays, for your character...which means you need to create a character you think that you can write with/as, and not have to constantly overhaul/repackage him every few weeks. Your character can be anything you want him/her to be. Currently off the top of my head, we've recently had a minister character who believes God's sent him on a mission to cleanse pro wrestling of sin, a man who woke up from a head trauma injury having split personality disorder which made him half normal, and his other personality was a Hollywood socialite, we had a couple of what we call comedy characters which one was a combination of all of the corny 80's martial arts movie main characters and the other was a...well I still haven't figured out WHAT he was but he was some kind of time traveler. The whole point of the character creation is to have fun with making a character from scratch...their backstory is all up to you, everything is up to you about them.
Once you create your character, you'll get booked on a show that we call a card. From there, you'll have about 10 days to write one of those RPs I mentioned. What's an RP? It's whatever you want it to be, again. Think of it like a filmed day-in-the-life of your character. There are no length requirements...you can write a half of a page, you can write 30 pages...whatever you feel you need to get your guys point across. What is your guys point? Once more, that's up to you. I'll use myself as an example. I was facing a guy this past card, and I wanted to get the point across in my RP that the opponents guy always trashed me, but that in all honesty, the two of the characters...they're not all that different. Called him a glorified hypocrite, got in a few verbal jabs at him, and that was it. Once the ten days pass by, sonstuds and myself will read over every RP posted, comment with our opinions and critiques, and we'll talk with each other for council and decide on who out of every match had the better RP, thus granting them the win. So we're fair, any match he's in he doesn't judge, and I don't judge any matches I'm personally in. If one person in a match posts an RP and one doesn't, then the one who posted wins by default.
But from there, again, it's all up to you. You can work out stories, feuds...all of it with fellow WFWF peeps...it's really all up to you guys.
I'm sorry if this seems like a whole hell of a read. Honestly, this may seem complicated, but I'm begging you to give it a try at the very least. If you have a love of wrestling, writing, creative or all three, you should really enjoy it. Again, it may or may not seem complicated at first...but I promise you when you do it for a month or two, it'll become second nature. I remember when I started, I sucked royal ass. I was TERRIBLE. But now, how much later...I'm a better RPr, writer...all of it, because of it. As they say, practice makes perfect.
Pretty much, this was a glorified crash course. I've left out so many possible answers to questions, but I'm leaving that up to you to ask. You can ask any and all questions you may have here. There are no stupid questions, and sonstuds and myself would love to work with you if you're even at all remotely interested. We're small in number, but everyone there's good people. If I can't answer a question, one of the other guys will, no worries~!
So yeah...ask away.
Important links:
Fellow boss-man sonstuds: wfigs.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=viewprofile&user=sonstuds
WFWF Board: wfigs.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=wfwfrp
Character bio to fill out (middle of page, copy/paste to Word or whatever): wfigs.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=wfwfrpovcrv&action=display&thread=85099
Where to post completed bio: wfigs.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=wfwfrpovcrv
I dont know good luck 
