I have many RPs, but one I'm trying my best to save, is an un-heard of rp. My staff is gone, due to inactivity, and so their accounts were deleted, and my ten members are now only five; and two of them are me playing as two characters. Two out of the remaining three are my friends, one of which is not able to come online, and the last is busy. This means I'm the only one on the forum.

I've tried asking for staff, though I get none. I am absolutely sure this is not another Harry Potter, Twilight, etc. RP. It is original, and yet, I get nothing. I've looked to see if I could find a forum like it, that I could join to at least satisfy my want to RP this genre. I found ONE forum, and it was closed two days later when I was about to join.

So now, I guess I should say, what genre IS my role play? Its hard to explain, as it takes place not on earth, but in an after-life, where one could play as an author (real or not), and RP as the author, or as their characters. For example, you'd join wanting to play as lets say, J.K Rowling. You could then, start a thread with Harry or Ron, and then another author (lets say...Doyle) joins the thread, playing as Sherlock Holmes as a professor. What would that class be like? What if its Harry's battle with Voldemort gone wrong? That Harry is kidnapped? Why, why not call in Sherlock Holmes to try to find Harry? What fun it would be to have Sherlock Holmes meet Voldemort? I find that to be amazing, I'd love to have something like that, but sadly, the people who have joined my forum, have mostly joined as made-up authors. Though I allow this, thinking it would still be great, nothing happens.

What can I do to improve this sort of RP?

Stop letting people join as imaginary authors.

I can only see it as a form of mary-sueism and powerplaying. They join as an author who doesn't really exist so that you can't verify their characters, and then when they get into a storyline they can play as Boggo The Invincible and that's perfectly ok, because their author has written any characters that they dream up.

The problem arises when the player doesn't have the imagination of a real author, and therefore can't think up any characterization for Boggo, other than the fact that he or she is invincible.