Coolio. Hey Alyssa, and welcome to the wonderful world of forum roleplay :D. It's a nice, very flexible (time wise) way to express creativity and put your imagination to good use. You'll probably learn a lot as you explore so don't be discouraged if at first you apparently do something wrong. I accidentally broke a rule known as 'power playing' the first time I interacted with another character but learned from it quite quickly :P. 

Anyways, I hope you find a good first roleplay to get started on (try the casual section first ;) ), and maybe I'll see you around :).