We are both compatible with Inara or the same reason that we aren't as compatible. She is content to follow. We both take point, and she inserts pieces that bring the story and the world to life. But we are both dominant roleplayers, and the directions that we instinctively try and take stories don't line up. Our ideas on what is and is not necessary for the world, our ideas of magic, our ideas of people, our need to set down details or leave things open ended, somehow they always seem to be opposite. If we try and lay down everything in advance so that we both know what we need to know it takes so long and goes back and forth so much that it seems to become impossible. If we leave things open ended we wander in different directions with different beliefs, and then when one of us realizes this we are forced to realign, and we go back and forth until one of us gets frustrated enough to fold to the other's wishes.

I want to fix it, because I know I'm one of the most talented RPers most people come across. And that may sound vain, but it means when I find a partnership that gets me to think and to push my ideas a little bit, I want to keep it. But at the same time, I don't know if "fixing it" is possible. I've had to learn really quickly whether a story is going to work or not, because most of the time my partners abandon me quickly, and when I find myself consistently postponing my replies, no matter how many or how few posts there are, I know that something isn't working.

Maybe we should just... try again. Completely start over, and be willing to commit to starting over as many times as needed until we find something that we both fully understand, and we are both fully comfortable with. Something that... works.