I got rather lucky. My alma matter has a periodical that gets published internationally that I got into. The periodical is very avant garde and my story was a weird non-linear creative non-fiction piece that I wouldn't have wanted to publish through anything less modern.

That's a good goal. 

Rping is one of my favorite ways to get to know a character. As you can tell from Kyle. I mean the whole reason I started this RP is because I wanted to understand him. He's a teacher for DADA in another RP and I wondered what changed from that childhood image I had of him in a family of Dark wizards.

Same theory with Charlotte and Mireille, they are interesting characters, but I'd like to understand them better in other situations. The same RP that Kyle is a professor in I have a set of twins in and they are characters from another story. When you put characters into situations that are out of your control it's easier to learn how they'd react. IE Kyle still daring to be Siobhan's friend despite obstacles in his way. That explains why he eventually became an Auror.