Okay, this is something that has begun to happen to me a lot lately. I was wondering if anyone else has had this happen.

I don't actually quite know why I lose interest in Roleplaying; I just log into a site sometimes, see that there are active threads that I need to respond to and I just completely ignore them and go offline again. It used to happen like every so often, but lately it's becoming more frequent.

Maybe it's not that I'm losing interest in Roleplay itself, it may just be the sites that's doing it, or the people I'm roleplaying with.

You're not alone. I'm in a mood like that at the moment. Trying to persuade activity on the other one I am on at the moment I have about 4 threads to reply to, two very different characters to use and yet everytime I sign in, click the thread and read the reply left for me for the eigth or so time I just scroll back up and log out.

Maybe I am losing interest in HP RP because I am well up for the Hollyoaks RP I just joined, but no body has answered the thread I started. But then on another RP site, a HP one I am waiting on a reply and I know the minuet I get it I'll pen down a reply before that person has even left the site again...

So maybe it is the site you are on? I read back to some of my threads on the site where my interest is lost and I think "Oh my god! It sounds like rubbish." I don't feel like I am writing canon and the replies I do make sound so childish and petty but then I read what I am replying to and realise I am just mirroring what I was giving.

Perhaps its not the site itself, maybe you are feeling the same as me. "Why bother putting in effort when you don't get much in return." Because its a low level RP, anyone is accepted so you are with a mixture of differnt RPers... Is it the same for the sites you are on?

My suggestion if you want to get back the inspiration, join a different site, maybe one more advanced or less advanced, depending on what you are doing now and just see how you feel when RPing, I have noticed that my mimal posts on this site that I am losing interest in will increase ten fold somewhere else in a way that I think, "Wow, I like that post..." Try it. Or else maybe do something else, creative writing? Stories or something away from Roleplay for a bit.

That probably is it to be honest. I roleplay on myspace a lot lately; and I had a storyline going with one particular character on there. But I began losing interest and stopped replying. It suddenly occurred to me that it was probably the person that I was roleplaying with because a lot of what they were sending to me made no sense whatsoever.

So I just gave up with it after a while. But they deleted their account recently, so I found my muse has since returned.

lol. You see, rping (however nasty this may sound) with people who really do not care is enough to squash the muse of a writer. Characters I feel I can really connect to soon start to annoy me so much I actually want to delete them on the odd occasion... I never do because I hope I'll pick myself back up... But just having threads with a few people who write a quick reply just so they can say "Oh look I posted, your turn", upsets me... I can't reply to something that hasn't even been looked over to remove symbols or mistakes that are very clear, such as 'Jmeas said this.' so grr..

Though never rp'd on Myspace, maybe you should join one of the big Proboards of InvisionFree sites and try on there? Anyway. Glad to hear your muse has returned.

I know EXACTLY what you're talking about. Lately, I just read a reply and log out like you all. I think it's because I put flavor and what not into my characters, make them human like, whereas most other people don't. Like most people don't give me something to work with. I'll post a good reply and they'll have their characters standing in the side and say something that would end a conversation.

Like I'll have my character...for example....hit them and they'll make their character walk away. Now most characters personalities are like this but there's ALOT you can do with that walking away thing. So maybe it's that? You're not getting good in-depth replies and actions from the other character? That's my two cents.

Sometimes I find myself losing interest in RPing as well. Usually for one of two reasons:

1. My real life is more exciting and I don't get any sort of excitement from the RP.

2. My character is not as sparkly as s/he used to be. Sometimes I'll just get bored of a character and want to create another to get back in the mood.

I'm in the same issue right now. I don't know why...I just am. I log on, SEE that I have replies, and I leave. I made two characters that I am dying to use...but I can't. And I'm on two NEW sites where the boards are just starting and nothing exciting is happening...

Also, my characters seem to get old to me....and well, this one person is only interested in making a romantic relationship happen overnight, and I can't do that, and it makes me lose interest in the character, not to mention that the character is not compatible with my character at all, but we used a particular face claim set....well....I used the man and she HAD to use the girl...

It all in all is making me lose interest 100%...and I hate that. x.x

This has happened to me a ton of times. Sometimes, I'll lose interest in the entire site because nothing is happening, or if something IS happening, it only involves the main admin and a couple of his/her friends, making it a bit dull for the rest of us.

Other times I just lose interest in a particular character because I post them so much. I had several characters on this one site, but when I made this one, my friend automatically made a love interest for her, and after that she wanted to post them ALL the time. We'd do one thread and as soon as it was done we'd start another, and another... and another. The whole course of their relationship happened so quickly, and I got so board of playing that character that I still hardly ever want to post her and that was months ago.

There have also been times when I'll love my character, and I'll be doing a thread with them, but then the other person just stops replying for awhile. They'll keep getting on, but they just won't reply for a few days, and when they finally do reply, I just don't feel like replying back; I read their post and just leave.

It also happens when I take on a character, and after a few posts, I realize I don't enjoy them. I'm sure that one's pretty obvious though. >.< I'll try to keep playing them for the sake of the plot, but I definitely start to just... not care to post. At all.

As it has already been made clear you aren't alone! ^^

I just recently regained interest in role playing after taking about a year and half hiatus. There's one problem...I can't write >.>

I know that sounds weird, but whenever I write (like stories and the like) I can't seem to manage a decent role play and when I role play I can't seem to think of anything witty to write down story wise. I know that's weird and strange but it's always been that way, so if anyone has that problem lemme know how you deal with it XD

But I don't want to distract from this topic! :D

So the bottom line is: It's gonna happen eventually I don't think anyone can honestly say that they've been into rping like constantly for however long they've been rping for! Dun worry! It'll get better!

A_Pickle. Exactly, they just don't give you enough material to work with, I mean I've gone off writing start off's because people don't answer back, I have two threads on this one site that have been completely ignored and people going on about wanting to RP but just ignore mine! Grr, but anyway, when I finally get somewhere to RP and I answer to whoever's intro post they don't tell me the time of day, the weather anything and then I get PM's 'Oh, I meant it was late, she isn't actually in a lesson.' So I just replied back with a very simple 'Don't post in a classroom and not mention the fact normal people are in bed then'. But anyway, to what A_Pickle said, people just don't give people enough to work on, and those that do are impossible to write with.

But, has anyone else noticed this:: If you are on a HP site, have you found that most threads are about sneaking out at night? I have started to refuse taking part in those sorts of RP's and deliberatly post as a day RP. Am I the only one who thinks its stupid to base EVERY RP during the night and never get caught? I mean, they'd have been caught by now for doing it.

But thats the main reason for my lack of interest. The people just don't interest me, getting bored of the cliche, "Oh look at me, I'm so bad I snuck out at night, woot!" Bleh.

Also to what sf1061 said, I hate romance threads. Do you know on Proboards and you can take people's Karma points up or down? Well, after refusing to take part in someone's idea of the next big romance I had my Karma pegged down continuosly by the person I had refused... My character was a Canon on a HP site, (James Potter) and I know full well he didn't spend ALL his time chasing Lily and that he may well have had other girlfriends, and for that point he did have a small fling with another girl... But this other girl had decided she wanted to be in a relationship with him... Mainly because the Marauders where the main characters on the board and Sirius was with someone else and she didn't like Remus or Peter... And so targetted James, I told her very politely that I didn't want to do relationships like that, but anyone... Thats what I have noticed, everyone seems to be RPing to 'hook up'. Anyone else tired of that?

Waw...I actually feel the same way! =D

And I thought I was alone! (heh) Indeed, I've began to loose interest in most of the role playing games that I was in. I still wonder if it's simply because I get tired of them, or because they let me down...

For example: When I first began RP I decided to go to High School and University games...at the beginning I thought it was fun. But after a while, things just became...Boring. As Hell! We'd always end up in those corny conversations and I'd simply, loose interest.

So I decided to try and go for japanese mafia RP sites...
Dear God. I never saw someone write so badly. They'd make mistakes that not even I (a portuguese person who's still learning english) made. Besides, when I wrote about four big sized paragraphs, they'd simply write two lines. I gave up on that site in the day I was accepted ._.

Now I'm more into Action and Super Hero RPG. I joined one recently...but I find the same problem that Mischief talked about: It's always about romance isn't it?
Even in that Batman site I'm on, where I play a male canon, it seems that it's all about hooking up with someone! I'm seriously tired of that. The constant flirting and no fighting...what the heck?! xD

I accept that on Highschool RPG, but on action/horror ones...?

Oh yea. I realize romance is a big issue and I agree. There's more to a roleplay than romance. This is once reason I don't like making male characters, because as soon as you do, he's the love of someones life. And the girl girl characters get ignored. So I've decided to just make homosexual guys from now on...it's the only way. XD

Lol! I get what ya mean Pickle. I've made quite a few gay male characters to xD
But now I've decided to contribue by making straight male characters, to see if things can get balanced 'cause...seriously, I've seen many sites saying that they were in need of male characters and none saying "We're in need of female characters."! Kind of weird if you ask me...

RPG are dominated by hysterical 'n' obsessive fangirls! Nooooo! xD

I think that it might be more of a writing muse that has died in you and not role-playing in particular (or, at least, that is the way it is with me). I have one active thread on this one site I am on. And, it’s gotten to the point where I almost dread to reply to it. But, for the sake of the person I’m Rping with (who is a really good friend), I’ve been doing my best to keep it active anyway. And, it’s not like the topic is dry; it’s more interesting than most RPs. I’m not quite sure what’s wrong with me. But, yeah - the computer in general is becoming less of an obsession. I’ve been finding “better” things to do with my life these days. 0.0 I’m not sure if that’s the case with you, murder_101. But, if so, I totally sympathize.

This happens to me too!

Sometimes I simply lose muse for a while. There will be a period of as long as a few weeks where I just have no inspiration for writingm to the point where I dread having to reply to my threads, but I try to anyway for the contentment of the people I'm playing with. It's really a terrible feeling. But eventually I geti t back again and my activity picks up.

The only time when I lose interest completely is with a particular site. Any number of things can do this. If I feel like the site is too cliquish and the same five people are rping with each other and not the rest of the site, including me, then I'll lose desire to post there. If nothing's happening with the plot or activity is decreasing, it's hard to stay interested in a site like that.

Know that you're not alone! But it could just be a case of the lost muse, in which case I'm sure you'll regain interest, maybe just not immediately.

I didn't write for almost a year after my mom's stroke. It was just too much pressure to be creative and take care of everyone in our family at the same time. I'm coming back out of it now. Trying to revive an old site, joined some new sites, started a site. Wish me luck!

Haha, Yes. Same! James Potter is the only Straight character I have at the moment and loving my guy character so much, all mine are gay. Its the only way to beat these strange, romance drama queens! *Big cheesy grin*

But anyway... Normally my writers block lasts a week or two... But I still go to the site, I sign on, I go to the thread I am supposed to go to, click reply and after five minuets of typing her name, deleting it, starting with something else and finally giving up completely, I think that maybe RP has just become less interesting for me, because now its not just on that one site... Now its a chore to do anything... And once upon a time when I would usually have logged into the computer, seen whose replied and where I am needed. I'll go into the front room and turn on the T.V or read a book until I get invited somewhere else... Its like the computer is the last thing I want to be on... Its killing me because despite not being able to write. I really want to.

And Dusti! I wish you all the luck in the world! So sorry to hear about your mum and I am glad you have finally got time to get back into everything.

Yeah, I got burned out of RPing because of stupid people. So I took the time to just write by myself and develop some stories I had had in mind for awhile. Just recently I returned to RPing by choosing a board based upon the attitudes of the admin rather than on the genre. I hope this reasoning works out.

I felt like I was drifting away from RP for the longest time -- and it does happen, you know. I played at an RPG for maybe six or seven years, and near the end I just felt like I was only there because I was obligated to stay. A good step to "coming back" is finding people you really enjoy roleplaying with. Back in the beginning, I was a real RPG-hopper. I'd join, post maybe three times (if at all), and then get bored and stop posting. Nothing really held my interest. But I guess the key there was figuring out what I liked and what...I really didn't like.

Something similar has happened to me in the past. I love to role-play, especially with the bunch I have. They’re all awesome to write with, even when you’re in one of those ‘I feel like crap and don’t want to write’ moods. There’s just one problem: sometimes I want my alone time.

Role-playing is supposed to be made fun for YOU, not everyone else. Yes, you should make their role-playing fun as well; but why do it when you, the role-player, don’t have fun? Perhaps you’re experiencing a form of writer’s block? Maybe you’re just tired of writing or the people you’re working with. Either way, one thing is sure to get you pumped for the next role-playing game you’ll partake in. Simply take a break.

I’ve had to do this a couple of times because of who knows for what reason. I just get tired of posting and dread when I have to get on again. Knowing what’s wrong with me, I take a break. It could be a couple of days, weeks, or even months before I return! Give your writing skills a break for a while and focus on something else that manages to catch your utmost interests.