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GWFan


An old Brony who sometimes writes fanfiction though I have slowed down a bit in recent months. I mostly do Let's Plays on YouTube now.

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  • 142 weeks
    Anniversary again!!

    Hello everyone! Its that time of year again, this time celebrating my 10th year as a Brony and 9th year since becoming a Let's Player. Yes, I know. My fanfiction pretty much seems dead. Any writing I do is so haphazard that I couldn't really call it that. Even though i took basically a year and half off of Let's Plays, I mostly played video games and caught up with other things during my

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  • 194 weeks
    Anniversary time once again! (And late by a day for the second year in a row!)

    Ninth anniversary as a Brony, eighth as a Let's Player, and 36th birthday have happened. As everyone is undoubtedly aware, its been one crazy year so far. The pandemic even had me put my let's playing on hold due to concerns that i didn't want to have to suddenly stop in the middle of an LP in the event I got sick (plus a few other things that were going on at the time.) As such I haven't

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  • 246 weeks
    Eighth Anniversary Time!

    Eighth anniversary as a Brony, Seventh as a Let's Player, and my 35th Birthday have all come to pass (I guess technically the anniversary was yesterday but I thought it was today until I looked at my last blog post). I'm still trucking along with my Let's Play's coincidentally being in the middle of an MLP themed game though as of late I've had some delayed uploads due to some real life stuff

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  • 298 weeks
    Late Anniversary Time again!

    I remembered to make a video but somehow forgot to make the announcement here. :derpytongue2:
    Anyhow, as of the 6th of July, I celebrate my seventh year as a Brony and sixth year as a Let's Player! Yay! :yay:

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  • 351 weeks
    Six year anniversary already!!

    A day early, I celebrate my six year anniversary as a Brony and five year anniversary as a Let's Player! Wow! Its already been that long. Though my writing has slowed to nonexistent (I keep telling myself I'm going to finish at least Celebrity Deathmatch crossover!!!!) my Let's Playing is still going fairly strong. After wrapping up Filly Fantasy VI, I debate whether or not I will go back

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Oct
7th
2012

It's only 550 words · 8:18pm Oct 7th, 2012

I've written barely anything fanfiction related in about five weeks now. My Youtubing really has ben pulling me away, but it's not like I;ve been doing no writing at all. I've been attempting to improve my writing a bit by working on the "Show Don't Tell" rule, which I seem to be bad at, at times. However, it's not like you have to strictly follow that rule. There is a time and place for telling. The trick is to find a balance between showing and telling. You can't just have all showing becuase then you would have nothing but long drawn out descriptions, and you can't just tell because it would be really short. I'm looking to go back and improve one of my previous fics and also improve the new Spiral fic before I update it again. Hopefully I will do this soon, though I can't promise anything unfortunatly. Work is picking up a lot lately too and I have a class at school that is literally just about working on a freakishly huge project (And I was defaulted as the leader of my group which sucks becuase I'm a C type personality.)
Anyway, I thought posting some of the stories from the monthly Writer's Group prompts would be a nice way to at least put up something until I can actually finish writing something new. I practically have chapter two of Spiral written, I just have to sit down and finish it. By the way, regarding those monthly prompts, anyone in the Writer's Group is free to write for them. The rule is 550 words or less, which is both easy and challenging and strangly fun when you get into it. I only mention this because only about 1% of our members participate in it (and we currently have 767 members). That number is so small I have to think it's more because people just don't know about it. How could there really be only 12 out of 767 people that feel like writing 550 words that you have around half a month to write? It dosn't have to be pure gold or anything, just write it as a challenge to yourself, even just to keep yourself writing. Someone somewhere once said that the best stories are told in as few words as possible. Did you ever hear that six word story that I think was written by Hemingway?
"Baby shoes for sell. Never worn."

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I have to amdmit this approach to this group you talk about is how I tackle my writing sometimes.

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