Too Much Drama

When I first starting writing these role plays, I was bad. And when I say bad, I mean baaaaad!!! Where other people would write two or three paragraphs for their character, I would write one...barely... My proudest accomplishment of the time was a post I'd written consisting of about four long sentences and a quote. And I was writing with the beginners. It was that bad. But I met a boy who wrote with me and showed me the very basics of how to write fuller posts. I took his advice and ran with it. At first, I was just writing with him. A simple story about a girl and a boy traveling together on a quest to find his family. Of course there was quite a bit of magic thrown in there to keep the story going. When I could write an average of two paragraphs per post, even on a bad day, I decided to branch out. At first, I tried to join more experienced RPs. Stories that were just starting with a minimum requirement of three paragraphs per post. I could handle the writing, but the people I tried to write with were rude and stuck up. To the point of kicking me out of a story where I was really the only one trying to even interact with other people. It was harsh. After the third try, I took what I'd learned and put it into my own stories.

First, I would like to say, I'm not proud of how one of my most successful stories started out. See, what happened was, I was browsing the forums for a new story when I stumbled upon one about eight people living together in a house. The story went that when these eight people met, they'd been in high school, but for whatever reason they'd all either left or run away from home. Now they all had to live in one house, paying their share of the rent by working minimum wage jobs and trying to make their way in the world. The characters were split into four couples. Each individual had person problems that translated into couples problems as the story was to progress. I tried to join this story as a girl who's lost her family so moved into this house with her boyfriend and her best friend. I wrote the profile, carefully chose a reference picture, then sent both in an email to the story's creator. The next morning I received this reply:

"Sorry. Another girl asked for this first. Just waiting on her profile. Try another story."

I didn't get it, really. Hadn't his personally written rules stated that he wouldn't reserve characters without a profile? And yet, that's what he was doing for this girl. About an hour later I saw the other girl's profile. Not only had she stolen my reference picture, she's used half of the things I'd written in my profile word for word! That was the last straw. I didn't care about the story or even the fact that she'd stolen my work. What made me upset was the rude and hypocritical acts of the story's creator. I hated that these people thought that because they made the story, they could treat their writers like crap. I wanted to write with people who just wanted to have fun. I wanted to have a place where you could go no matter what level of writing you were, just to enjoy writing. So, I stole the story.

Mind you, I didn't take things word for word. I took the general idea, added a few more of my own to up the character count to ten. Added my own pictures, wrote the description in my own words. By the end of the day, my "better" version of his story was up and ready for people to join. Instantly, there were three profiles in my inbox. All three were added and the posting began.