Since it's been so quiet for a while, i thought i'd start a discussion.
How did everyone start with this RP business? I myself, started RPing a year ago, totally by chance.
I consider myself a pretty fluent English speaker. I'd been studying English for about 11 years and last year I managed to get the CPE with an A. My teachers over the years always told me that my essays/ reports/letters/proposals etc they make you write there were excellent and asked me if i write on my free time and to their surprise I always said no. The thing is, I never really "studied" English like most foreign students do. I consider myself self-taught. I watched A TON of movies. With and without subtitles. I searched the internet for practically anything. A word i didn't know? Google. A phrase that i had difficulty remembering? Google. I payed attention to class too but I was really lazy when it came to doing homework [still am]. All those years of "studying" to say, resulted in me being literally a walking dictionary ¬.¬ . That's where my inner grammar nazi comes from as well. Since I know a stupendous amount of words and how to spell them, I always get a
little irritated when people spell something wrong.
Well, after i finished my studies I thought to myself "Ok, now that you have finished, what will you do with all this knowledge?". I started writing short stories on my own but I quickly got bored with It. I wanted interaction. To be surprised by something unexpected. If everything came from inside my head then why would I write It down if they were already in there. Too much hassle really. So I searched around and stumbled upon the RPing section of the Minecraft forums. I didn't even know that you could roleplay like this. I only knew of tabletop rping. Therefore you can imagine my surprise. It was exactly what I wanted and after some browsing, I found a proper rping forum, RPG. I settled here and have been rping here since Sep 2012.