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May
22nd
2012

Daylight Burning Chapter 9 and 10 are now live! · 7:32am May 22nd, 2012

Chapter 11 should be finished in about two weeks, maybe less. This should ACTUALLY REALLY be the last chapter this time. Mwuahahaha...

Thanks for being patient the past two months. It feels good to have free time again. Everything went better than expected, by the way.

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Apr
30th
2012

Writing Tip #2 · 2:07am Apr 30th, 2012

I was very pleased with the debates engendered by the last writing tip, so, as promised, here is another! As always, please savage my amateur advice in the comments section below.

Today's writing tip is.....

Get to the dang point!

A lot of stories fool around forever before revealing the actual conflict. For example:

Chapter 1

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Apr
27th
2012

Writing Tip · 6:59am Apr 27th, 2012

"This story... it's so... so... well-edited!"

So a friend suggested I start doing this. I don't know if it will be a regular thing, I just wanted to pass along some tips that great writers have given to me, and which have helped me improve. If you disagree with anything here, I would love to read about it!

Tip Number One is...

Be brief!

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Apr
24th
2012

Where the hell have you been? · 11:29pm Apr 24th, 2012

Doing this:

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Mar
25th
2012

Special thanks goes to... · 4:00am Mar 25th, 2012

I wanted to take a second to thank my prereaders, DPV111 and KalethSakuzan, and my editor Tehbeesknees. Without their expert help, these stories would simply not exist. Hats off to you guys.

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Mar
23rd
2012

Daylight Burning Chapter 8 is LIVE! · 2:34am Mar 23rd, 2012

Enjoy the story!

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Mar
20th
2012

Daylight Burning Chapter 7 is LIVE · 11:50pm Mar 20th, 2012

Enjoy the story!

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Mar
16th
2012

Why do they put the PUBLISH button right next to the EDIT button??? · 2:30am Mar 16th, 2012

Seriously. Chapter 7 is coming along very well, but it's not even close to done, and thank goodness nobody saw it. Work has been very demanding recently, although I've been writing instead of sleeping, so you should have Chapter 7 by this weekend. That's a Blizzard/Valve estimate.

Thanks for all your comments. I read all of them. And reread and reread and...

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Mar
5th
2012

To all new trackers, the broken Chapter 1 of Daylight Burning is now FIXED! · 11:49am Mar 5th, 2012

This is a note specifically for ponies who tracked Daylight Burning when it hit the EQD update page on Sunday, 3/4/12. This author was horrified to find that all day long, Chapter 1 had been scrambled and corrupted, in part due to the hacker attack on Fimfiction this weekend. I fixed it, so if you read Daylight Burning for the first time yesterday, please take another look at Chapter 1. I think everything in the story will make more sense once you do.

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Mar
4th
2012

Chapter 6 of Daylight Burning is live! · 8:57pm Mar 4th, 2012

Enjoy the story! Rate and comment if you please.

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