I usually frequent various real-life RPGs, and unless you have plots planned out with multiple people, you're often forced to make random, going about your everyday business type posts. My question is, what can you do to make those posts more than just boring, ordinary posts and to make others interested in replying to them?

Your best bet would be to create characters with strong personalities or unusual quirks. Be creative about the situations you put them in. Like, instead of the classic 'gee sorry I bumped into you random stranger,' you could have your charrie running pell-mell down the street waving a...rubber duck around. And then they could shove this rubber duck at a stranger and tell them it's a matter of life or death that they hide it from random charrie #2, who is chasing charrie #1 because of some past wrong...

That was a random example, but that's the point. Writing is a creative process and roleplaying is especially that; you don't have to feel tied down to reality, even in a real life roleplay. Be creative and just have fun with it.

(And AshBean successfully gives the most vague advice ever! :lol: )

Thanks; what you wrote helped, but my problem is that I currently have a character on a not too active board who can be outspoken, but isn't very "out there" in her personality...I think enough I could come up with something for her though. I could see her getting really involved in her writing and ignoring everything around her, though, so I'll try to build off of that.

I've never participated in a real-life rp, but I had a long-standing character who wrote constently. I used her in a variety of genres, even Dragonriders of Pern, which was occassionally lifelike, depending on the events of the Weyr at the time. At one point, she was either talking to or singing to herself (as she was a bit mentally unstable and had years of musical training and so wrote songs almost as often as she journaled) while walking around somewhat aimlessly. She happened to be quoting one of her darker and more unusual pieces, which, needless to say, got some attention and started a topic.

Is there a character on the board whose personality you could play off of? Sometimes it helps to throw together two very different people and see what happens. If your character's quiet and keeps to herself, she may need to be caught off-guard by someone very outgoing or opinionated. As a writer myself, it really really annoys me when people stare over my shoulder at what I'm writing. Maybe she has similar peeves which you could play off of? Or maybe she's so wrapped up in her writing that she doesn't notice something important, like a crime being committed or her house burning down. It's just a thought... I'm trying to be a bit less vague and a bit more useful, haha.

Write so that you don't bore yourself. That's a start. Write your character behaving in a way that would make, say, you want to sit down beside them and strike up a conversation. Simple enough. Oh, and write well (more on this elsewhere, I am sure)--obviously.