Part of my Writing from an Actor's Perspective series. First part here.

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Apparently, today marks my one year anniversary on fimfic!

No big retrospective post, though: I'm going to have enough typing to do preparing today's actor's perspective blog

Until then:

(and before anyone nitpicks: the counter will change this afternoonish. Be patient and stuff)

Part of my Writing from an Actor's Perspective series. First part here.

As writers, dialog is our bread and butter. There's just something about that give and take that adds life to the rest of the narrative. It's where we show people our characters and how they interact.

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As authors, the very nature of how we craft our stories encourages us to treat our characters like dolls. We can write a million page character bio, study a hundred books about successful characterization, and watch people for hours, but not a single one of these things changes the fact that when we write, all the action must come from our fingertips. An author writes with one voice: their own. Characters are but one facet of this voice.

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"90% of everything is crud."
- The Internet

"59.55% of measured horsewords are below standards. 32.02% are serviceable. The remaining 8.43% are actually quite remarkable and make me happy."
- SirTruffles

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Thanks to everyone's enthusiasm in the comments, I am pleased to announce my first Twilight's Library weekly recap blog will be up and kicking sometime tomorrow afternoon. I'll be starting off with a general summary post of the roughly 400 stories I've reviewed since signing on, along with an overview of how I tend to review things. There may even be graphs!

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As some of you may know, I am a story reviewer for Twilight's Library. What you may not know is that I like to keep a spreadsheet detailing the number of stories featured/approved/rejected along with a tally of why I rejected what I did. As this data isn't doing much good just sitting on my hard disk, I've been playing with the idea of starting a blog column once a week summarizing my accept/reject ratio, breaking down reasons for rejection by category (no story names, just a tally of general

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Due to hereto unforeseen productivity, I'm almost ready to release yet another story, and I have the skeleton of another laid down.

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I have, in fact, been writing recently. The lack of posted stories is more because the ideas haven't been coming together quite right. However, I have recently managed to make something of one of them. The results should be more or less publishable tomorrow after a fresh read-through and the all important description crafting.

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Very excited right now. First, I'm Not a Firefly was unexpectedly featured by Royal Guard, and now it's made its way to the popular stories box. It's not quite the feature box, but for my second story, I must say I'm proud.

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