An interesting discussion on remaining in persona

[guenievre]

http://new-man.livejournal.com/158518.html?nc=58 - I know I am awful about this, and many people don't find the "persona" thing important. Still, I'm fascinated by it, and wonder how I would go about working on it...

Comments

[wombatgirl.livejournal.com]

I am *awful* *awful* *awful* at staying in persona at events to the point where I don't really try to hard anymore. (Yes, I *am* one of those people who talks about Heroes in garb. What can I say, I like Heroes.)

Part of it is that I tend to be pretty shy and not talk anyway, but I have such a hard time coming up with appropriate material for staying in persona that I have *nothing* to say... and I do like to speak every so often.

One of my goals is to try and work a little more on my persona, because I really only have a name, my arms, and a vague idea of when and where I'm from.

[lady-guenievre.livejournal.com]

I don't watch Heroes, but I was rather bad about the WoW thing when I was still playing, as most of my guild was SCA-based.

The best advice I've ever gotten is to discuss whatever you'd normally discuss, but leave out the modern bits - if you got an email from someone, leave it as a "received a message" or even a missive and go on to talk about whatever was in it.