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344 weeks
Cold Light is complete

.... and I'm two days late in announcing it, because my life is hectic and not very fimficcy nowadays.
Still, I want to make a note of this. I started Cold Light to see if I could actually write a genuine fantasy novel. Three bloody years, it took, but I did it. I finished it, and it's one of the three stories on here that I'm actually halfway proud of.
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417 weeks
Why I'd rather write something pretentious than something good

Okay, I'll own up. That's a deliberately confrontational clickbait-y title. I couldn't help myself.
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448 weeks
Five ways to improve Equestria Girls: Friendship Games

Friendship Games is a middling sort of installment. Better than Equestria Girls, worse than Rainbow Rocks – but given the latter was so great, and the former so abysmal, that's no real surprise. How did it fare on its own terms? Again, middling: Better than it might've been, but still not quite as good as it could've been.
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459 weeks
What is the value of fiction?

It's characteristic of fiction writers that we tend to be good at bullshitting. Something of a necessary skill, really. And it's characteristic of everyone that we tend to be pretty bad at judging our own importance without some self-aggrandisement.
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460 weeks
An important anniversary

(With any luck, this is about political as you'll ever see me get on here.)
And coming up next: Talking about the value of stories. Or another go at criticising critics. We'll see.
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