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Wow, it's been forever. ;_; Sorry for not updating, you guys, life has been so stressful it's not even funny.

Number one, of course, is school. Then coming home to study AND do HW. e.e; Then I barely have time to even go on the computer.

;_; And I don't wanna write the last chapter of Nirvana because I feel really bad about doing so. I mean, I'm so damn happy on how Nirvana has gotten this far but it's because of that I don't want to end it. u.u;; Mahh, well, there's nothing I can do about it anyways. ;D Regardless, I'll finish it up soon.

Okay, there's one reason I posted this here. I must rant about something I discovered, which in my case may be true.

Role-playing. Who doesn't love doing it, am I right? Lately, I've been running around Gaia looking for some RPing partners-- one on one, in other words. I mean, the people I've RPed with are great and their characters are solid, but it's my motivation that's keeping it from going on. I specifically told them at the beginning that I'm somewhat sick of people reading my last post and never responding back. I don't like it when people don't even bother to reply with a, "Uhh...sorry, I don't know how to answer your post." or a, "Yeah...let's start a new RP. This one isn't going anywhere."

But this time with three particular people, I've been the one doing so, and I feel horrible about it. The thing we did,though, was we outlined the genre, what is the main thing of the RP (IE: Romance) and so on. We planned it. I mean..they're great people, but I don't understand why I don't feel it. If you're one of those three people who I'm RPing with and read this-- don't worry. I'll reply back today, I'm not going to abandon a RP.

However, I came across this 'Shounen-ai J-Rock RP" on one of the boards, shrugged to myself and thought, "Hey, it couldn't hurt". There was no planned thing that was supposed to happen. All that was written were the setting and what the RP was about, like...shounen-ai for example.

And, I got to say, I can't get away from the RP. I didn't even want to go to lunch yesterday and went straight to the computer lab so I could log onto Gaia and see if there were any new posts. ;P Yesterday, I spent more than four hours RPing after I came home. And imagine, all this erupted from a RP that had no set action for later, and it's the funnest RP I've ever had on Gaia before.

Strange, isn't it?

I figured before that planned= good and unplanned= horrible. But then, I looked back and noticed all the greatest, and most loved RPs came from scratch and developed from nothing.

That's the beauty of RP, I think. You can create a masterpiece with nothing. You don't need a plan. You just need your imagination.