Confession 1: I never make OC's, none of the characters I ever make will be reused in another RP, I don't like the idea of having OC's because I believe it'll be boring to stick with one character.

Confession 2 Electric-Boogaloo: I have never been on a RP that lasted longer than 3 months after the IC started.

Confession Number 3 silly random writery: I never join a RP if it has started, it seems weird.

Confession 4 I'm running out of ideas: I want to be a writer but I've never written a book more than 3 pages long

I'm done with this silly joke 5, oops I forgot to write confession: I frequently think of alternate ways a cool rp could have gone, for an example one time I wanted to betray everyone in a RP, and I found the absolute perfect moment to do so, but I decided not too and I am forever thinking of how cool the rp could've been if I did.

My best friend is the kindest person I know and probably the kindest person in the world, but I am bad at talking so I can't properly convey it. Super fun rp about friendship. Totally didnt metagame by having the person tell me the character’s interests.

👀 what a thread necro.

Confession: I'm always secretly worried that my dialogue sounds the same, regardless of character.

Confession: I complain about being forever GM but I love it so much that it's honestly hard to be a player - the plotting, the foreshadowing, the NPCs, it's too fun to give up!

Confession: I rarely go into an RP with an idea of what I want to play - I always try to fulfill a narrative role that isn't present.

On Elvenqueen's point or first confession I can relate to 100%. I have made backups on the first site i rp'ped with long ago because the character that my partner did was so good or it was a character I wanted i literally made backup logs in OpenOffice.(Yeah didn't use google)
I get so attached to some of my roleplays I get a little paranoid of it being lost forever if the person never comes back or something befalls them.

Confession Point #2: I worry that my dialogue patterns regardless of who I play rather it is a canon or a OC is going to sound the same, sure it may be due to the disability I have but the worry still creeps up on me.

Seeing as we are resurrecting topics from the long dead, I suppose I could share something in this vein as it is still interesting, even years later. That said, the first of which I have to share is that I am woefully self-conscious about writing human characters. How does one write for people? For the life of me, even if others claim it is fine or better yet well-written and credible, I dread writing anything outside of those animal, namely those things people. At least with some fantasy races or fictional species such as with those things extraterrestrial I can tap into their undertones and make them closer to overt, to make them different and distinct, but people? Writing people is a terrible experience for me because I haven't the faintest how they should behave as people. As characters, certainly, that is no challenge - what motivates them, what they think, why they think it - but how to encapsulate that as a human being? A different challenge altogether.

The second that I will share for the time being is that I absolutely despise not being able to continue characters. The idea of writing expendable, or that which I perceive as such, characters who cannot progress from topic to topic with time is just a baffling and frustrating thing. I came up in a time where it was unusual to have more than one character and all the investment, everything itself, went into that one character, who moved and progressed through various narratives and places. Yet now it feels as though the written roleplaying world is made up of but islands, all separate, and to the extent that one cannot even navigate to most of them from another. Thus one needs make a character for each and that certainly does rub the fur the wrong way.