The bookplayer blog post you've been waiting for! · 4:03am Dec 6th, 2016
...um, what is it?
Seriously, I need to pick up my blogging again, but I'm in the strange position of having so little free time I have to choose between thinking of a blog post or writing it. This is not an effective method, and that's aside from my tendency to get halfway through writing one and decide that no one wants to read this stuff.
So I'm tossing the question out to you: is there something you want to see me write about? Being specific is good, I've covered a lot of ground on my Big Three (writing, MLP, and shipping) so I'd have to go in depth on those, and if I'm going to do that I want to make sure it's something people want to read.
Other things I feel qualified enough to write about on a pony website are: 19th and early 20th century girls literature; myths, fairy tales, and folk tales; parenting stories; relationship advice; stuff from my life; and stuff about my OF novel.
Special for my Patreon subscribers: You all are amazing, generous, and above all patient people. I've mentioned before that I don't take money to write fanfic. However, since my time is so limited right now, if you want to hint to me that maybe instead of blogging I should make some pony words happen, I will take it into consideration. When I started this, I had time for both, and I understand if it's the pony words you really want.
We're on Fimfiction. Blogging about writing and blogging about shipping are both directly relevant to MLP here.
I'm always interested in learning more about challenges involved with shipping fiction. I enjoy writing ship-related stories (I have one about to publish tomorrow, shhh) but I have a hard time gauging the realism in what I write, especially on that front.
Folk tales might be an interesting subject matter. I know a lot of the things from early Ozark history is cool as hell, with a ton of beasts and the like.
That or mane 6 theme songs, obviously.
I'd be interested in a blog post that uses 19th and early 20th century girls literature as a window into a particular way to write horsewords.
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So would I, especially since that very literature heavily inspired my current long project of horse-words.
Also what the users above me said.
Yo bookplayer. You should, like, don your super cool "superhero" getup and continue a certain "heroic" story that totally needs to be finished. Because heroes always finish the fight :B
Or post more blogs with Trixie doing Trixie things. Those always work.
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You need your bloggin noggin back!
It happens. ^.^
Hrm. Specific? Here's one, which I plan to do someday (
so never): the use of metaphor in Peter Beagle's the Last Unicorn. Or...How sex is portrayed by female vs male authors in romance fiction, including the role they give it to play in the relationship(s). Or...
Which is more romantic, tragic romance or happy-ending romance?
Hey let us decide that
I think you should post the half-finished stuff. Like, right up to where you stop in mid-word because you don't think we want to read it.
More ponywords is always good. More bookplayer stories would make the world a better place. At least for me.
Mostly, whatever you are interested in. I care less about specific subjects and more just really enjoy listening (or reading) to people talk (or write) about stuff they really enjoy.
As a patron I'll express a mild preference for hoerswords rather than hoersblogs, but I'd be happy with either. Pretty much everything you mention sounds good, which I know isn't helpful, but I hope I can give you some confidence that at least one person will appreciate whatever you do end up posting.
As a not-as-cool-as-Horizon I will agree with him on all counts
Hm. Well...
Many of us writers are male. Given that we're trying to write female characters, what advice could you, as a female and a bit of character, give us? Specifically I'm thinking of how women talk and act amongst themselves when men are not around.
Also, how does that compare to when men are around?
We can't know these things unless someone tells us.
"19th and 20th century girls' literature" sounds like a good idea. :3
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My advice here is not requested, but having lived in the female gender for 14.5 years (after being in the male for considerably longer), I have the following observation:
Women/girls are people. *
Women are just like you. They have fears and hopes and dreams. They laugh and they cry and they lean on their friends for support. They make mistakes and they make amends. They're much more like 'men' than most men ever realize.
I'm being serious. I know it sounds stupid, but it's the most important thing I've ever learned about females. When I was very young, due to being transgender and being scared to death of what I was, I was literally afraid of girls. It was my number one fear until I reached my late teens or early twenties, and it persisted to a degree up until I transitioned.
As for how women act in private, there's not a huge difference, except that women tend to be a little more 'overtly' supportive of each other—but this is mostly an artefact of the gender itself, I think. The only big difference I've noticed is in girls (teenage and younger), who can be both super-supportive of one another (which can turn rather cliquey), or just the opposite: catty and mean. But I've never observed that sort of thing in adult women.
(* = I actually wrote a story about this (not trying to self-promote, but it's exactly the topic and conclusion of the story). It was written last year as a Secret Santa gift for Plumander: Colts Will Be Colts. It isn't like many of my other works, but as with most everything I write, it's message-specific and (secretly) very personal.)
I'm gonna be annoying and say i'm a fan of you writing what makes you happy.
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I agree with Trick Question to an extent, there's not that much difference in terms of the subjects or style, but I do think there are some interesting things to note that I could blog about.
Specifically, (and I can only speak for ciswomen here because there's a good chance a lot of this is socialized gender, though I'd imagine that some people would pick it up as they spend time presenting as a woman,) there are things most women notice that are likely to be part of any relevant conversation or interaction that (in my experience) most men wouldn't: emotional needs are one, but also relationship dynamics, aesthetics of people and places (and inferences that can be made from those,) assumptions about certain kinds of responsibility... Even women who aren't interested in actually talking about these things will tend to be literate in them and consider it normal for them to be part of a conversation, especially among other women.
This is totally something I could blog on in more depth, so I probably will.
I'm always into horsewords about the two sisters (it's my nature) and anything else that you usually write. As for blogs? Umm, writing advice centered around shipping non-mane 6/7 characters? Those are hard to find and would certainly be interesting (and helpful).
I tend to consume blogs faster than stories (my RIL is a crowded yet forlorn place) , but any and all bookplayer content is good in my book. I think some of those writing topics others have brought up, like relationship/sex portrayal, would be very interesting and informative. I think you once suggested/threatened to blog about realistic childbirth vs the insanity TV keeps telling us too.
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Like sports with men.
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I see what you did there