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Scramblers and Shadows


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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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Announcing: Cold Light · 10:20pm Mar 2nd, 2014

On March 2nd 2013 I released my first every story, The Dragon and the Photograph. I was pretty amazed by the response, I can tell you. And thus began my love affair with writing.

So yes, yadda yadda, a year passed and various Important Life Events happened and I kept on writing.

Adventure has always been close to my heart, but when I started here I limited myself to smaller character-based works because I thought my character skills were overshadowed by worldbuilding and general flashy stuff. But now, I finally think I can balance the two.

And now, on TDTP's anniversary, I present to you Cold Light, my first adventure story. The thing I'm most proud of since TDTP itself.

What can you expect? Ancient secrets, airship battles, awesome magic, giant monsters, nonlinearity, a mystery narrator, prose with just a hint of lilac, melancholy Scootabelle, villain backstories and a harpoon-wielding donkey with a hovercraft.

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Urgh. Why'd I have to go signal-boosting you for a blog post yesterday instead of for a new story today.

I am annoyed with myself!

Don't worry about it. My fault for throwing out a random blogpost on a whim a day before the planned release. Ah well.

Don't forget the main character! (It's a secret to everybody...) :derpytongue2:

Awesome! I'l, check it out as soon as I can. :twilightsmile:

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