[Morgeruat]

also forgive me for quoting www.dragonmount.com 's (the Wheel of Time website) new user FAQ but it does have some good advice.

The first and most common element is that the example is written in third person. First-person writing ("I went to buy a sword, because every Warder should have one.") might seem easier, but is often very confusing for other people to read, as they won’t usually have a good idea who your "I" is, and the "I" would switch every time someone new wrote a post. As well, the sample post is written in the past tense. Although this would not cause as much confusion if it were changed, it still is easier to read a series of posts when the style remains the same between them. The third major suggestion for writing role-playing posts is to make sure to use paragraphs; again, this is for the ease of other people reading your posts. While it might be easy to write your post as a single large block of text, breaking it into paragraphs will help you to control the flow of the text, as well as prevent people from having their eyes glaze over as they try to read it.

Other elements such as proper grammar and spelling are useful, just ask your English teacher. However, because Dragonmount has an international user-base, we ask for a little tolerance. Someone for whom English is quite foreign may have written that poorly written post that you just read. On the other hand, some of the best writers at Dragonmount aren’t working in their native language. All we ask is that you do your best, and if you’re in doubt, a good word-processing program can often be quite helpful.

The other thing to keep in mind while role-playing is that you are playing with other people. In the example above, the Aes Sedai from whom Eban was hiding would likely have been other people’s characters. While it isn’t too difficult to imagine that the Aes Sedai would have walked towards him while he was hiding, if Eban had written about bursting out of hiding and frightening them into running, that might have been too much. Actually killing the Aes Sedai, someone else’s character, would be not only in poor taste, but would almost certainly be against the rules if the Aes Sedai had not already consented to this happening. Thus, when role-playing, you need to remember the roles of other characters, and not act for them. When role-playing with someone else, especially at first, you should always make sure that all of the people involved have some idea of what is going to happen, before you do anything overly elaborate. If you have any doubts, it’s always best to ask. On the other hand, everyone should be open to suggestions about where the role-play is going, and what happens with their characters: a simple sneeze shouldn’t be cause for complaint, even if you didn’t expect your character to sneeze there.

The last important thing to remember is that your character is not a god. Eban is an Asha’man, so he can channel. That doesn’t mean that he could weave Balefire and destroy the Aes Sedai, or open a Gateway for a quick escape. A Child of the Light, though handy with a sword, probably isn’t a match for a whole Fist of Trollocs, at least not by himself. If nothing else, a character that does everything perfectly isn’t too likely to find anyone else who wants to role-play with them.