Otherwise if you let them sit too long, they start to taste like aluminum cans. :D

One more thing to notice is that your posts do not contain SPaG errors - after all, since we critique people's works' SPaG we can't allow ourselves to make mistakes.
Fortunately, the PPC has an active beta circuit, and it is more likely than not that you can find a beta here for most things you'd write, including things in (very) obscure fandoms - I'm a fan of The Culture, Herr Wozzeck knows operas well IIRC, et cetera.

1) Design your agent. Actually writing for your agent will come later, but it's best to have them living in your head for a while before asking for permission to write a PPC story. Spoiler warning: you won't get until you've been hanging around here for a while; this song accurately describes my feelings towards the process. =]

1a) Just remember: a Boarder is someone who posts on the Board, while an agent is someone written by a Boarder. An agent can be very similar to you, but you are not an agent.

2) Hang around here and ingratiate yourself/selves (around these parts gender is not only non-binary, but also non-Euclidean) with the rest of us. We're mostly harmless. Mostly. I'd watch that Huinesoron, though. Chap's trouble.

3) Repeat #2 constantly.

4) Go through the permissions process. Huinesoron will guide you through it. I'd avoid the self-check, though. It may eat your soul. I mean, I did it and I think I'm okay, but sometimes my skin oozes small black dots that fly up into the sky like the dreams of dying men, but that might just be eczema.

The note reads:
"Don't let the leaves eat you. The plant was in a bad mood when I picked them."
The signature is quite incomprehensible, though you can see that it consists of a few letters superimposed on one another.

forgot to put my name in the response...

Here, have a top hat and fake monocle as your welcome gifts. (And a blue scarf; can't go wrong with scarves. :D)

[Anglophile = person who loves England]