Welcome to Gaia! ::

The title says it all boy and girls. I like to RP, but after reading how you fellows RP im affraid to cause my skills as an RPer suck. Ill give an example of how i do it-

-walks into the room-
wheres abe?
-looks around-
voice from the other end of the room says, "in the tank, duh"

see im not good at this, but would love to learn how to do it right sweatdrop

that helps but what about the writing format?

As for the format:

"Things being said go into quotation marks," she advised. "Treat them like a sentence within a sentence, and if you add quotations inside quotations, note it with 'these marks' and when you're done, close with quotation marks again."

Now pay close attention to the periods and commas.

"Hello," she said.
She said, "Hello."

Each one conveys the same thing, but pay attention to the way the commas and periods work.
Now, there's also a way that quotations can fit into paragraphs. It can be

Paragraph Size-
Don't let your paragraph drive on forever. In an essay, a paragraph represents a complete thought, which usually requires three to seven sentences. In fiction, a paragraph can be as long as it needs to be. In one of my favorite books, there is a three page paragraph, but when I write, sometimes my paragraphs are no longer than one sentence for dramatic effect or because of a quotation.

"This is a complete paragraph," he said.
It is, I realized with a shock. And so is this!

Which brings be to a random point that thoughts should be in italics. Otherwise it gets jumbled. For thoughts, use the same comma and period rules as with quotes, but ignore the actual quotation marks.
Here's a longer paragraph for you.

It was a cold night, like most, and the dogs were howling again. Perhaps the coyotes were in the neighborhood again- (last year they'd tormented the dogs for a week and there had been canine gang wars the likes of which the town had never seen) but the few people who were awake at this ungodly hour didn't think that was the case. Because it was cold, everyone used the blankets on the bed. Because the dogs were howling, most people kept knives under their pillows just in case.

Long paragraphs like that rarely work for any reason other than long descriptions of settings. Actions are much more fleeting and are generally awarded with tinier paragraphs.

Okay- I'm back. My next lesson is making characters you can write for.

I, for instance, play a female character because I am female and it's easier. It's also easier for me to play a character with a disposition similar to mine. That doesn't mean that I can't play a male who is nothing like me, but it's harder to empathize with the character.
For the RP here at the BPRD, you can be pretty much any race out of mythology. One guy has a minotaur character and a doppleganger character. Although it sounds like a lot of fun to be a nonhuman (it is), it's much simpler to just be a human. Again, this has to do with putting yourself into the shoes of the character.
Let's say you wanted to play as an alligator man. I'm being purely hypothetical. You would have to consider all the differences in perceptions between the real you and an alligator.

Consider that the character would be cold blooded. This would massively affect the character's energy levels and behavior.
Consider that their tail would throw off a human's balance. They would have to walk hunched over.
Consider how claws would affect a person's manual dexterity.
Consider that you would not have bifocal vision because an alligator's eyes are on opposite sides of the head.
Consider how an alligator's snout would affect the character's ability to articulate words.
Consider that the character's vision would be honed more toward movement than to detail, and that they would have four sets of eyelids.

And so on and so forth. I recommend that you start and practice with a human character with enhanced talents, like being seismokinetic or something.

Thank you for the back-up. It's much appreciated.
I, and many people, don't base their characters off of their avatars of vise versa. I like to start with a personality and then created the look based off of that.
Laura, my character, enjoys adventure. She wears earth toned clothes because they don't show dirt as much as other clothes and because they are camouflage. She wears pants so she can move around easily and so her shins wont get grass-cuts if she runs through a field. So on and so forth.
Clothes are easy to choose, though. If you character was a blackjack dealer, they'd have a uniform. If s/he was a circus clown, s/he'd have the suit to match. If it was the aforementioned alligator-man, maybe just a loincloth.
Facial features follow in a similar manner, usually trying to adhere to stereotypes. I say that visual conformity is important because we see it all the time in real life and people are used to it. It makes the character more believable.