[quote=Kalamadea] That's what I'm saying. Most people don't speak in third person, so all I'd really be doing differently is sticking all dialog and action in one block of text. I can eliminate environmental description if needed, I just want to put dialog and action in the same paragraph. That's what I've been trying to say that all along. So (using your example as well) I'd doSo-and-so looks down. I don't usually use terms like "says" or "said". I just kinda stick the dialog right after an action and only use those kind of terms if they speak a specific way. [/quote] That would be fine, but the only difference between that and the way we RP is that instead of having actions as normal and speech in quotes, it would just be speech as normal text and actions in asterisks. For example, an introduction of a fire primordial could go as such: *A strange presence can be felt in the air. Everywhere that (insert character here) looks, a haze can be seen, almost like from a candle flame. After a moment, a dragon seems to form out of the haze* Hello, (insert character here), my name is (insert fursona name). Or, to the example being used, it could easily go as: *(Character name) looks down* Hey, I can pull this off. It doesn't really have to be multiple paragraphs. You could even go so far as to have a block of text such as: *Heat bursts forward from (name), causing everything within a nearby radius to burst into flames* Hello, my name is (name), pleasure to meet you. *The flames begin to die down as the heat disperses throughout (location)* This could be used for quite a long paragraph as well, it's really up to the organization style rather than writing style. Otherwise, I'm sure I can think up some arbitrary reason that would let you use your regular writing style without breaking realism.