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Soundslikeponies


Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.

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  • 355 weeks
    Stepping Down from Fanfic Writing; Focusing on Life, Career, Game Dev

    This blog post might not come as any surprise given the last new chapter of anything I posted was a year ago. I meandered away from the site for some time, unsure if I would feel like coming back. I'm making this blog post because I'm pretty sure now at this point I won't want to write ponyfic any time soon. I really regret leaving A Darkened Land unfinished, since I did truly enjoy writing quite

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  • 381 weeks
    An Update

    After being silent so long I guess I should start by saying this isn't a gloom and doom type blogpost, heh.

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  • 394 weeks
    Unpopular Opinion #6: Learning Theory Can Kill You

    Okay, maybe "kill you" is a bit overdramatic, but "clickbait" is sort of a theme of these blog posts' titles anyway so yeah.

    I recently came back from Bronycan where I spoke on 3 separate hour-long writing panels. I got some pretty good words of encouragement from people saying they learned something, and actually in talking that much about writing I felt I learned something too.

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  • 396 weeks
    My Slow Writing and Life Update

    I'm 4th year University student studying Computer Science. I'm into writing, art, programming, and game development. I tend to plan far in advance for the future, and previously I've mentioned A Darkened Land will likely be my last novel length fic.

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  • 397 weeks
    Bronycan Details

    Hey there! So I'm all set for Bronycan and they've got the schedule up on their website.

    In a surprise turn of events, the coordinator approved of all of our panels! That means I'll be sitting in as a panelist on 3 of the 4 writing panels our little group is organizing. Here's the times/topics for all four:

    Friday:

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Mar
20th
2014

I don't blog often enough (and how I'm going to fix that) · 5:36am Mar 20th, 2014

I was chatting in a channel a few days back. We were talking about the featured box, popularity, followers, and all that jazz. About a month ago I started following a few people like Present Perfect and Wanderer D who blog post semi frequently about fandom hot topics, story reviews, and give advice.

Bottom line is: it made me realize I'm not really engaging you guys in a way that I could be. That I should be. I try to let my work speak for itself, replying only to direct questions and trying not to clutter up the comment section of my stories with my replies. I see people with a small circle of friends who all read each others' fics and man, I am so jealous of what those people have. I tend to gravitate towards other people like me: authors who don't read, who procrastinate in their writing, and who don't get out there and do things. But now I've realized that you paid attention to me and followed me and I should reciprocate that.

I once published 3000-4000 words every 4 or 5 days without fail for over 20 chapters. I have days where I write that much in a single afternoon, but rather than feeling good about it, I just wonder, "Man, why isn't every day like that?" I don't believe it has anything to do with my muse. With practice 'muse' becomes less and less of a thing until inspiration is no longer a requirement for you to write, just a bonus.

I'm juggling university, learning to game program, learning to draw, and writing. It sounds like a lot--and it is--but I feel as though I could succeed in all these things if I manage my time more efficiently.

Anyway, I've got about 24,000 words worth of unpublished work spread across 4 different stories. One is going to be a short, somewhat episodic multipart adventure-comedy similar in length to "Let's Find You a Date!", one is a good ol' one shot, another is a good ol' one shot broken up into 2 halves, and the last is aiming to be a dark epic adventure with the goal of capturing innocent characters forced into dark and desperate times. I'm going to spend the rest of the night shaping up that adventure-comedy fic, hopefully posting it tomorrow morning.

So that's the update on my writing. I also plan on writing more blog posts on intense philosophical questions, keys to self-improvement, and how waffle cones make everything better.

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waffle cones make everything better.

Truth.

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