[quote=Yog Sothoth]
I have been in several rps with great characters but the rps barely last a week before its dead.
[/quote]

And you can also have a good story in an RP that lasts barely a week.
Yes you may argue "Good story takes time", but so does Characters.
So if you're claiming you had good characters in such a short RP I only assume the posting for it was intense.

In which case, a good story and characters can still happen.
But the outside world still exists, and still influences peoples abilities to keep up.