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Kitsilver
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since: 09-16-07, id: 1378199, Profile edited: 07-16-08
Author has written 6 stories for Suikoden, and Fire Emblem.

"Style is the writer, and therefore what you are, rather than what you know, will at last determine your style.

Sympathize with the reader's plight but never seek to know the reader's wants. Your whole duty as a writer is to please and satisfy yourself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one."

-Strunk and White in Elements of Style


I do believe that what we are, not what we know, determine what we write. Because for a story or character to be real, it has to resound in the person writing it. She has to believe in the words she writes, in the truth and worth of what she's written, before anyone else can believe it with her.

A painter in a certain novel once said this: A portrait reveals more about the person painting it than the person sitting for it. We write about characters very different from us in a world far removed from the one we live in. But to make them live, we breathe something of ourselves in them, and then by showing how they live, show something of ourselves as well.

That is why I write.

Kitsilver


More quotes:

Heroism isn't a simple matter of being heroic, of walking around being strong and brave and big-shouldered. Heroism is in the doing and the becoming, in the action and the journey. Our protagonists become heroes by their actions and reactions, manifested in the events of the plot, but most of all, because they go beyond what they are, and risk their identities to become something more.

- "Being, Doing, Becoming: The Heroic Strength, the Heroic Flaw, the Heroic Journey" by Alicia Rasley




1. Father reviews
Rath. It was the day I’d been waiting for, for far too long. At last, I was going home.
Complete - Fire Emblem - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 706 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 6-19-08 - Published: 6-19-08
2. Fleeting Thoughts » reviews
Fire Emblem 7 A collection of stories looking at the thoughts different characters experience but do not express. Parts 1-4: Kent, Fiora, Heath, Jaffar.
Fire Emblem - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Romance - Chapters: 4 - Words: 2,591 - Reviews: 28 - Updated: 6-18-08 - Published: 10-8-07
3. Dragon Song reviews
Ninian. Ages have passed since last the dragon songs were heard, but the world cannot forget that dragon's song.
Complete - Fire Emblem - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,275 - Reviews: 13 - Updated: 6-4-08 - Published: 6-4-08
4. Only a Dance » reviews
Sain x Florina. A story of how they are more than what they seem, and what happens when friendship and love develop between them.
Fire Emblem - Fiction Rated: T - English - Friendship/Romance - Chapters: 2 - Words: 5,874 - Reviews: 21 - Updated: 12-18-07 - Published: 12-9-07
5. Home reviews
Dorcas. When all is said and done, the best part of a journey is making it back home.
Complete - Fire Emblem - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,038 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 12-16-07 - Published: 12-16-07
6. What Needed To Be Said reviews
[Suikoden V] A mere hour before their meeting with the queen, what is it that’s needed to be said between Lyon and the prince?
Complete - Suikoden - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,467 - Reviews: 13 - Updated: 10-7-07 - Published: 10-7-07
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  1. The Prince and his Sworn Protector
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