before you look and say: wow, she only has one post, please realize that i am a returning member to the site and do have roleplay experience.
- gen 1 characters: GIVE THEM A BACKSTORY. Sure, there are successful characters that are grumpy and rude all the time, but why? You don't wake up grumpy and rude without a reason. Sure, you can be easily upset, but you just don't plain get out of bed in the morning thinking (hopefully): "GODDAMN IT, I'm in a foul mood today. Let me go FUCK UP someone else's life." It's just not how it happens. Why are they skittish? What made them so mad? Why do they cuss all the time? Damn, for adult g1 characters, backstory is key.
- music. music music music. music=muse. Listen to songs when you're museless, because your roleplayer reflexes will force you to find good thread titles in there.
- never make anything official. like, seriously. don't write a 1000-word thread about their new personality disorder and then find you don't like roleplaying like that, cause then you're pretty stuck with it. that's a commitment, bro. always ease into things, and if you don't like where you're heading, steer clear.
- spur of the moment decisions are BAD. plots develop slowly. please, please please don't make your cute little princess all of a sudden get possessed and become a killing machine, simply because it just DOESN'T HAPPEN THAT WAY. the more you can draw ideas from real life, the better.
well, that's about all I've got for now. hope it helped. <3