Birds of a Feather...
The games you pick are paramount in making sure you have a good time. If you read the character sheet of the GM and it's easily a page long with a huge amount of inanities that you could give less than a speck about in actual people, move on. I'm sorry, most forum RP is character driven. You discover the characters eventually. Do you go up to random people and explain your scars, fears and family history? A character sheet should be a paragraph at most: NAME, AGE, HT, WT, EYE/HAIR COLOUR, ROLE and HISTORY (in other words what brought you to the current game). When I first started Role Playing I would spend hours thinking of a character with a rich past, whose personality was multi-faceted like a Tiffany-cut gemstone only to have the game fail four posts in. You want to play, not make character sheets all sodding day. Join games that fit your personality and writing ability so that posting is not work but something you can do with very little effort.
Technical Writers, Oh Noes!
People have different abilities in writing, not all are on par with "good writers". When you are fourteen you will not write as well as when you are twenty-four. As more mature writers brow-beat the little ones it only serves to create animosity. I've done it, here and in other sites, just tear into a kid for for grammar mistakes or spelling errors. It was petty, in truth we all start somewhere. When I was growing up trolls lived under bridges not on the internet so in understanding that, kids have it tough these days. Why bulldoze an already shaky emotional foundation when you can lay concrete and steel then when they are nineteen they write better than you at twenty-five. If you as the mature writer hate seeing spelling errors and mistakes why did you join a pokemon roleplay? Conversely, as a younger writer don't join games where the posts are thousand-word behemoths, in primary school reading lists you won't find The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon.
This is a story about, corn flour, paint, a 1970 Ford Mustang, rage, lost love and a red panda...
Confusing twisting,
Free Cuddles? Om nom nom
Loneliness touches a lot of people, school is tough, you have not enough/too much black clothes, anime, those rubber bracelets that are shaped like things, love of independent music and film. We all want to belong, to love and be loved and not be derogatorily labelled. You are accepted/unpopular with jocks/preps/emo/emocore/metal/metalcore/fringe/nerds/goths and that makes you happy/displeased. Internet venting is a great way to deal with that, internet relationships brought to creepy life in roleplay for others to see and vomit over are not. Yea PM each other but 1x1 romance roleplay reminds me of the "hot chat" days of AOL. What country from you bb? NO!
In summation, the time it takes to role play well differs form person to person. With practise you can be a good as you want, you have all the potential inside your brain, with more experience you'll be a better writer so don't get frustrated when people lay down
