***Cinders General Intro Guide

So You Want To Start A Thread!

You're a perfectly fine poster, but you just can't find the words to start a thread. Questions like where? when? and who? confuse you. Heres a short guide that attempts to help you with your problem!

Where? Location is important in a thread, and its also a simple question to answer. If your character is from District Four, then role play them in District Four. Rue, the site creator, was kind enough to include a small description of each location. Lets keep to the District Four example:

District Four (1 sub-board)
The citizens of District Four are all serious fishers; give them a fishing pole and they'll come back with a truckload of fish. Most of this food is shipped to the Capitol; but they have more than enough left for themselves.

By the rules of common sense, this means your character is a fisherman. Threads on a boat, in the ocean, at the fish-market, in a store, at your house, at a friends or just on the street could easily happen. Take a place your character might visit every day, and use it as your exact location in a thread.

When? Now that you know where your thread takes place, choose a time for it to have occurred at. You can use terms of day/night (ex. 'sometime around dawn' midmorning, noon, late afternoon, twilight, dusk, midnight, middle of the night) or terms of AM/PM (12:32 AM, 9:10 PM) Time is easy to come up with after you've answered the where? question. If your thread takes place while Mary Sue is walking to school, you could say morning, or 7:39 AM is the time. Just choose a time that makes sense.

Who? Take out an ad in the RP Request Box conveniently located on the right side-bar --------->

You can set up a thread with whoever responds, or ask to RP with a specific person. Create a plotter page to start a plot between your character and somebody else's. If you do not have anything plotter before hand, label your thread as being open so all people know to respond. If nobody replies, bump the thread or ask people to reply in the Chat-Box.

Basically, describe the settings, are they alone or with other people, are they running from a shopkeeper they stole from, or are they sitting on a park bench? What are they thinking about? Why? Answer simple questions in your first post and give the person posting after you something to work with. Having your character notice theirs and say hello is a good opener.