You get that itch, you browse the forum, and then you find that roleplay you really want to enter—or you decide to make your own. At which point you have entered the all too familiar waiting game until the eventual IC. Have any of you noticed that it is often several days or even a week or so later until a roleplay truly starts?

So the thought crossed my mind, but do some people space out the process of starting a roleplay to a length that is too long? That decision to wait until a certain date/number of [i]"interested"[/i] comments before migrating from Interest Check to eventual OOC. Could, or more should, a GM place a character sheet template in the Interest Check so people can start working on their characters sooner? And how much should a GM prepare their own works (OOC, Characters, and IC #1) before choosing to start their roleplay?

Understandably there is a point when you go too fast and it falls apart, but I wanna hear thoughts on what pace has worked for others, and whether there are choices you would whole heartily avoid because they burn too fast or too slow.