Well, RP stands for Role Play. And that is literally what it is. Two
or more participants (usually called players or partners) will take on a
role and act it out. You can see these ad nauseum with games like World
of Warcraft (the internet is littered with MMORPGS), where each player
takes on a character and performs actions for it. With a written RP,
the action is merely text based, like writing a fictional story. I tend
to focus on this type, the written RP, because that’s what I’m involved
in, and that’s what my forum is for.

So how does it differ, then, from just writing a fiction?

Well, when an author…