Personally, I've always found that the best way to encourage people to stay in a slow-starting RP is by having discussions about the RP, either in the OOC or via PMs between two or more players about their characters and how they'd interact with each other.

Pre-writing is a very important part of any writing process, even with just one person. The fact that it tends to be completely passed-over by the majority of RPs on here, where you've got four or five people writing together, just confounds me.

So, anyone have any ideas they want to discuss? Anything they'd like to get hammered out? Questions, comments, concerns, etc.

This is the place to talk about them, now, before we start. And if anyone has any questions about my character, or how he's going to interact with the other characters, please, feel free to ask me here or through a PM. I love working with others to help develop a better story.