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TacticalRainboom


I wrote some stories for you. I hope you enjoy them.

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  • 452 weeks
    A quick Slamjam postmortem note

    So, the creator of one of the OCs I wrote about just about flipped his lid at me because I gave his character a gay shipping story, ruining his message of platonic bromance and emotionally vulnerable heterosexual dudes.

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  • 453 weeks
    Part 1: Poetry

    “But I hate poetry” well that’s because you’re doing it wrong. A poem of the type that we were told to write in this class is just a short, condensed piece of work that shows who you are and what you do as a writer.

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  • 455 weeks
    Lesson 0: Learn the rules before you break them

    I know full well that I'm talking down to a lot of people in this post--my excuse is that writing it out is also a way for me to refresh the lessons in my own mind. Story tags are because I plan to go back and "grade myself" based on my own advice as i write these.

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  • 456 weeks
    All is right in ponydom

    I know, I said I would do a thing, and then I didn't.

    I will. I promise. Next post.

    But first, I need to share this with you: a friend has informed me that One Terrible Writer has posted all of his stories, previously thought to be lost forever, on fanfiction.net.

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  • 457 weeks
    Knighty HATES him! Honolulu-area baker reveals how to improve your writing with 3 simple rules!

    I’ve seen it a few times, and you probably have too: people will say stuff along the lines of “I bet this person took a community college course in creative writing and now they think they're so great.” It’s a very resonant insult for classists like me. Besides, it’s rooted in fact: the level of literacy needed to pass community college courses in this town is miserably low.

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Apr
9th
2015

I should do something to get ready for the write-off prompt in 12 hours, but what? · 8:10pm Apr 9th, 2015

I haven't done anything like this in, what, a year?

Maybe I'll write some really terrible and gay free-association poetry.

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Comments ( 4 )

My trick is to pull the prompt list into a document and brainstorm ideas. Sometimes I can even come up with an idea that will work for multiple prompts, and I can start thinking it out.

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I just meant something to get me into the mindset again. Something like writing something for the first time in who knows.

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But if you don't, it'll be that much more fun when you're trying to get something written in three days! Practice is so boring!

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My trick is to have 400 story ideas collected in a document that I can browse through once the prompt is chosen. :B

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