Bad Horse Blog Index · 9:17pm May 30th, 2014
This index to not-bad blogs will always be on my user page. Each list is mostly in chronological or reverse-chronological order.
I've added a few good blog posts by other people.
I put a '*' in front of the ones I think are most-important.
WRITING: THEORY
In General
* Understanding Fiction: A book by Brooks & Warren that explains how stories work, according to New Criticism.
* The Writer's Notebook: Craft essays from Tin House
Writing: Jack Bickham, my strange hero
The Paris Review: Writers at Work
Is writing like computer programming?
Things to avoid in stories: banality, contrivance, predictability, thinness, falseness, randomness, tidiness
Genres
* EM Forster, Aspects of the Novel, chapter 6: Fantasy
* Fantasy as deontology (finale spoiler)
Fairy tales are weird
Fairy tales are random
Comedy vs. Humor: Comedy amuses. Humor emotionally connects with the reader. Shakespeare wrote comedy; Joseph Heller wrote humor.
Defining the readers of each genre: Data mining (by Catalysts Cradle).
EM Forster, Aspects of the Novel, chapter 7: Prophecy
Children's books as mind control: We don't keep scary things away from children to protect them. We do it to control them.
Story Structure: What makes something a story? (mostly chronological, because new posts refer to old posts)
* Stories with and without meaning: The Urban Fantasy Anthology
Completeness in stories, poems, and songs: We have different standards for what counts as a complete narrative, depending on whether it's presented in prose, poetry, or song.
Three more kinds of non-story: These are not stories: The hero does the right thing for the wrong reasons; The hero already knows the thing they “learned”; The author distributes the character growth arc across multiple characters.
* Understanding Fiction: Brooks & Warren analyze famous stories.
* ROF1. A general evolutionary theory of fiction: Why our brains reward us for reading stories, why they like stories that are painful, and why they like stories that are bad for us.
* An appraisal-based ontology of fiction: Categorizing stories by their fundamental appraisals. Narratives which don't fit any of these categories probably aren't stories.
From sadfic to literature: Tension, Decision, Drama, Theme, Character, Response. Allowable combinations of positive & negative emotions.
Why (Some) People Like Sad Stories (slides from my 2020 Ponyfest talk)
Writing: A three-second mistake that ruined an entire movie: The same narrative, told from a different point of view, is a different story.
Human nature and other bullshit: Stories are about the particular issues of particular humans in particular cultures, not about human nature or "what it is to be human".
Bears Discover Fire: Why is this a story?
The Blues Brothers as magic realism
An extremely short story: The GIF Day
Writing is philosophy by existence proof: Writing fiction is proving that life is worthwhile by giving examples.
Everything I Needed To Know About Life, I Learned From Supervillains: The classic superhero story is designed to justify our crappy, thoughtless lives to ourselves.
Why I'm about to "No true Scotsman" you: If there are patterns that make something a story, you have to expect there are bad stories that don't fit those patterns.
The Gilligan's Island theory of stories: A theory of story is always limited to some subset of all possible story types.
Theme, Central Ideas
Sex, violence, and meaning: Stories are morals. (Hard to read.)
* The story isn't over when you wrap up the plot and Writing: A Passage to India, & not stopping when the plot ends: The plot is not the story; the plot is only the surface manifestation of the theme. You still need to relate the plot resolution to the theme after you wrap up the plot.
Writing: Saving the world vs. kissing the girl: The story isn't over with the plot success/failure; we need to see its impact on relationships.
* Thematic cheating: Forcing things to work out, against all odds, the way your theme demands, is dishonest propaganda.
* Show us the theme: The difference between a story and an essay is that the story must show, not tell, the theme.
"Publishable" Ideas, by Aquaman: Great stories don't come from a single great idea.
Scene Structure
Mythbusting: Scene + Sequel structure
* Advanced Scene Writing by Jim Mercurio
* Scene structure cures dull dialogue: Dull dialogue results from a dull scene, not from a lack of body language.
Writing: Build-ups and resolutions versus shocks and limbo
Writing: Follow each chain of thought to its end
Literary Theory
* Information theory and writing
* The annihilation of art
* Thoughts on listening to Mahler's Fifth Symphony three times in a row
* Writing (and composing): Mahler, Beethoven, Faulkner, House of Dawn, & the Wundt curve
* Modernist and Medieval Art : They're based on the same metaphysics.
* The Arian Heresy and the Fall of Rome: Religion and rationalism caused the Dark Age.
Literary modernism explained: The Teaching Company audio course, Literary Modernism by Jeffrey Perl.
* the revolution will be inscribed in cuneiform: The claim that modernism was a reaction to sudden changes in beliefs doesn't stand up, because ~1910 was not a time of unusually rapid change in beliefs.
* Modernist Manifestos & WW1: We Didn't Start the Fire—Oh, Wait, we Totally Did: Modernism was not a reaction to WW1. But it may have been a cause of it.
* Art and Genocide: The Führer who Loved Only Buildings: Hitler was motivated to kill by his love for art.
An explanation of a famous neo-modernist poem: A genuine modernist's explication of Gertrude Stein's "yet dish"
Modernist politics: Stalin and Hitler versus the movies
"You're stupid and Ezra Pound is not." Also, Modernism is a plot by the CIA.
* Post-modern dialectic as improv (Real Presences by George Steiner, a bad book I learned a lot from)
* How I took a literary theory class and accidentally stopped hating Republicans, part 1
* HITALTCAASHR, Part 1.2: Annie Dillard on modernist fiction
* HITALTCAASHR, Part 2: What are English departments teaching?
* HITALTCAASHR, part 3.1: College English leftism: How did it begin?
* HITALTCAASHR part 3.2: Teaching English: 1987-1990
Near and Far--Construal and Psychological Distance: Two opposing modes of thinking, and how to trigger them in the reader.
Art--for art's sake, autotelic, autonomous, and autopoietic: What these words mean
How and Why Humans Dichotomize: Why humans oversimplify everything
Rules for Writing by GhostOfHeraclitus
Writing: Short-shorts and the word-count donut hole
Pretentiousness comes from modern art comes from Plato
Why read?: Is reading fun?
Why We Read
Why We Write
Private stories, songs, & movies
Story as dream
Lewis Carroll Explains Post-Modern Semiotics
Story Analyses
My favorite first sentences
* Raiders of the Lost Ark: A story analysis from Scriptnotes
Theme and plot: A Canterlot Carol
* Writing: War and peace, truth and fiction
Why Fallout: Equestria is Worth Reading Even if You Hate it
Annotations: "I Have no Mouth and I Must Scream" by Azusa, /Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire/ by Titanium Dragon
Annotation: Skywriter's "Torn Apart & Devoured By Lions"
Writing: Plot in Cormac McCarthy's "All the Pretty Horses"
Writing: "All the Pretty Pony Princesses" vs. Charles de Lint: The conscious vs. the subconscious
Why fan-fiction does twist endings better (Trust, Game of Immortals, Happy Ending)
Writing: Tempted by meaning: Stories in Understanding Fiction that are just about their meanings are boring.
Data Analysis
- Structure of fandom:
Author clusters question: Authors clustered by who follows them.
Ficdom Structure 2: Author heat map: A visual map of correlations between authors.
Author pie charts graph: A graph of authors, plotting using a distance metric of follower-correlation, displays "story space".
Defining the readers of each genre: Data mining (by Catalysts Cradle). - Stylometrics:
Stylometrics
Stylometrics: Pros vs. fans
Stylometrics: Factoring out Equestria and point of view
The Great Shakespeare / My Little Pony Showdown: Part 1: Who writes more-distinctive characters: Shakespeare, or the writers of My Little Pony?
The Great Shakespeare / My Little Pony Showdown: Part 2: RESULTS! - Regression and other equations:
What tags correlate with popularity on Fimfiction
Story tag results simplified (a simpler interpretation of the beta coefficients in "What tags correlate")
Does grammar matter? Linear regression of story rating against grammaticality says no.
The importance of having a picture for your story: Having a picture multiplies a story's popularity by a factor of about 2 to 3. - Other:
Aristotle vs. Fan-Fiction: Slides from a talk in which I searched for evidence for catharsis theory.
Optimal chapter length & other data-based tricks
Some numbers: Of words, in famous books.
Other
Racism inverted = racism?
Writing about rape
Writing about rape, again
Does reading tvtropes.org make you a better writer?
Laugh tracks
Quote of the day: William Goldman: The day you think you know how to do it is the day you're done as a writer.
Art is hard
Writing: Philip Roth, & the ethics of writing
Writing: Philip Roth on writing Anne Frank fan-fiction
WRITING: CRAFT
Characters
* Writing: Relating plot and character. "Look Before You Sleep" and bookplayer's "How to Do a Sonic Rainboom".
* How Aragon Describes People
On Mary Sues: Some people need Mary Sues.
Write-off: Why I love "The Ponies we Love"
Bickham on Setting (POV & setting changes, casting against setting)
* Collateral damage in Hamlet and the Merchant of Venice: Imbalances between character realism and plot requirements in Shakespeare
Ink blots and Moby Dick: The way characters interpret things tells us about them. Similarly, good literature may be an inkblot test of the reader.
The Great Shakespeare / My Little Pony Showdown: Part 1: Who writes more-distinctive characters: Shakespeare, or the writers of My Little Pony?
* The Great Shakespeare / My Little Pony Showdown: Part 2: RESULTS!
Twilight Sparkle's Literary Preferences: Twilight doesn't like all books.
Writing: One single sharp character moment
Character names: Re-use versus re-describe: Lavender unicorns in the EQD Omnibus
Why it's easy for me to write fan-fiction
Agency and Character Development in Crusaders of the Lost Mark, by bookplayer
Unexceptional Exceptions, by bookplayer. On avoiding generic fantasy worlds and other cultural defaults.
Difficulty Levels, by Chinchillax. A lesson about life from video games.
Hungry Ghosts and Jealous Gods - Writing about Addiction, by Heartshine. And all her other blog posts.
Show and Tell
Writing: When to show & when to tell
Writing: Telling vs. body language
Writing: Other ways to look at "Show, don't tell": If you can tell it, tell it. Show things that you're not sure about. Tell the things that could generate confusion but not drama.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, world-builder (TheJediMasterEd): How Solzhenitsyn describes the world of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
Emergency new story announcement and "Show, don't tell" demonstration: Twilight Sparkle Makes a Cup of Tea
Writing: Show and tell 1: Francine Prose
Writing: Show & tell 2: Extreme telling
EM Forster on character: Novels are for telling
Writing: Show us the theme
Writing: When only to show: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Superman taught me to kill: Things shown are true. The reader may interpret things merely said to be lies. Subconsciously.
YOUR FACE (hazeyhooves): On using facial expressions. They might not show what a character feels.
Honeycomb on show, don't tell: Don't tell the reader what to feel or think.
Relationships & Romance
* The Invisible Chores in a Relationship, by bookplayer
* "It Feels Rapey" -- A Caustic Guide On How Not To Write Romance (Aragon)
* Why romances aren't romantic: Romance can develop only between characters who have something else to do.
* Satire, Sex and Sentiment, in which TheJediMasterEd gives the finger to the literati who scorn these things.
Writing: The romance novel POV trick: Rapid POV switches are used in romance to convey intimacy.
Alien Shipping Syndrome is a Terrible Thing. On romance, by Chuckfinley.
5 Tips for Avoiding Alien Shipping Syndrome. On romance, by bookplayer.
Everything I Have to Say About "Gratuitous" Sex Scenes Summarized in Three Words
Dialogue
* Writing: Dialogue and artifice (bookplayer): Realistic dialogue isn't as good as distinctive dialogue.
* Scene structure cures dull dialogue: Fixing the dialogue in a scene from "Moving On" by changing the scene's setup.
Writing: Collaborative experiment: Speech tags: When did writers start using speech tags?
Writing: Speech tag results
Point of View
Writing: The romance novel POV trick: POV switches as dialogue and a measure of closeness between people.
Bickham on Setting (POV & setting changes, casting against setting)
Shared point of view
Other Tips & Techniques (most-useful first)
* On Writing and Knowledge (Dr Blankflank): Don't write what you know. Know what you write.
* Crutches (relying on dragons, death, & romance)
* Why the new My Little Pony is 20% cooler
Writing: Pacing: It isn't about speed.
* Writing: Keeping all the puzzle pieces in play: Managing your reader's short-term memory
* Symbolism in the Doctor Who episode "Amy's Choice"
Make Mistakes... and keep the good ones.
* Writing: You can't tell by the color: A lot of context packed into a single odd word choice in Reading Lolita in Tehran.
* The geography of story: Physical movement symbolizes story movement.
* Lead your readers
Dream sequences & symbolism: Good and bad uses of symbolism in dreams
How not to ship the Mane 6 with each other
Writing: Adam Cadre's Narrative Patterns. Heuristics for fiction.
Taboo "friendship": To write about friendship, avoid using the word "friendship".
Writing: Plotters and pantsers in other walks of life, and Commedia dell'Arte: Some genres are just more pantsy than others.
Writing tip: Know whom you're taking advice from
Take advice you disagree with
Writing: Letting a story sit
When to throw away story ideas (because they won't be popular)
The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Writing: Philip Roth on the importance of knowing what people fantasize about, and of hating things
Grammar
Does grammar matter? Not to most readers.
Grammar for Real People by Cosmic Cowboy
Things that make you say "Hmm..." (when you can't use a contraction)
Linguistic puzzle for the day
Style
* The Art of Plain Speech (Ben Bova, posted by iloveportalz0r)
* Disturbing the Sound of Silence: Content vs. style
Writing: Bjarke Ingels on style
* Information theory and writing
Writing: News from the front in the war on adverbs
Writing: Culture and sentence length
* Stylometrics
Stylometrics: Pros vs. fans
Stylometrics: Factoring out Equestria and point of view
Writing: Waves of style (Excerpt: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, part 2, chapter 4)
Magnetic Poetry Duels
Excerpt: The Last Unicorn, chapter 8
The Last Unicorn, chapter 13 again, funky stuff highlighted
Consonance: The Last Unicorn, chapter 13, for the third time
The ring of words by TheJediMasterEd
WRITING: BUSINESS
Beyond Ponies: An anthology of non-pony fics by ponyfic writers
Review--Creating Faulkner's Reputation
Online publishing is winning SF&F (also see the correction of some errors in that post)
Do writers get better? No.
Writing: Anvil and fan-fiction: Fan-fiction can make you a better writer. (First see Stylometrics: Pros vs. fans.)
Signal boost: The Indie Hypocrisy by Viking ZX
Making story art with the GIMP
SFF writing workshops: Deadlines, money, and a fim-fiction scholarship
Current Clarion scholarship: Applications for Clarion 2018 Open Today! Get your free money here!
Signal boost: The Indie Hypocrisy (Viking_ZX): Why are indie movies & indie video games "good", while indie books are "bad"?
Bad Horse's Bad Advice--Avoiding comparisons (with other writers)
Fifty shades of marketing
Readers want blood (NY Times bestellers are mostly bloody)
REVIEWS
Pony alerts & reviews (reverse chronological)
Fic rec: Grimm's "Applejack Digs a Hole"
Fic recommendation: The Incognito Cart
Story plug: Twilight Loses Her Innocence (Anything to Save the World)
Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen by GhostOfHeraclitus
Recs: An even worse self insert, The making of "Spring is Dumb"
Buffy vs. The Librarians
Season 7 Episode 14--Fame and Butthurt
New story: I Shall Please by FanOfMostEverything
TheJediMasterEd's first story: "Beneath your feet, what treasures"
Two and two-half barn-busting stories
Some folks worth following
New write-off story recs
Fic Rec: Save the Records
Adventures in Twilight's Gall Bladder, read by ShadowOfCygnus
A couple of stories from the write-off
Story recommendation: Collaborators
Summer is Magic: Forever Summer
18th Brewmare & 50 Shades of Brad
Artist: Noben
A new story from Bob From Bottles
An early yet confident recommendation (GaPJaxie, "Daring Do")
Maud Pie meets Quizzical: The poetry of the layers
A semi-secret, semi-new Skywriter story, "One Perfect Throw"
Read this now: Thou Goddess, by horizon
Fic alert: Height, by PoweredByTea
A reading of "Coyote and the Boulder", by me
A few recommendations (The Never-Was and Wouldn't-Be by Obselescence, Daring Do and the Dance by Georg, Home by RBDash47, Roaming by Skywriter)
Recommendations: Cloud Wander, archonix
A couple of recommendations: GaPJaxie & Jedi Master Ed
Twilight Sparkle vs. the Equestrian Library Association
Decisions, by hester1
Belated emergency signal boost, & DuncanR
Reviews: Mortal, Twilight's Forfeit
Story recommendation: Biblical Monsters by Horse Voice
Emergency new story announcement: Shorts by Cold in Gardez
Whispering Stars
Emergency new story announcement: Hoardsmiths by Skywriter
Theme and plot: A Canterlot Carol
Story recommendations: Kaleidoscope, A Canterlot Carol, Thweet Geniuth
Emergency new story announcement: Quizzical
Emergency new story announcement: Equestria's End by Aquillo
Emergency new story announcement: In Their Highness' Clandestine Corps by AugieDog
Emergency new story announcement and "Show, don't tell" demonstration: Twilight Sparkle Makes a Cup of Tea
Why Fallout: Equestria is Worth Reading Even if You Hate it
Whom the Princesses Would Destroy (GhostOfHeraclitus)
Three new comedies (Georg, Cobra Commander, GhostOfHeraclitus)
Sisters, chapter 3
Recommendations: If a Pony Catch a Pony, Legends of the Night Guard, Cool Jazz
Starlight Over Detrot
New story rec: Concept art (Georg)
The King of Carrot Flowers
Non-pony reviews
Strong film rec: Ёжик в тумане (Hedgehog in the Fog, 1975)
New-ish Invader Zim story: Stars, Even Here
Review of the Iliad, or, The Rage of Bad Horse (I've come to disagree with much of this post)
Stories with and without meaning: The Urban Fantasy Anthology
Disagreeing With The Dead: Why James Joyce's "The Dead" is a bad story
Twilight anti-fan-fiction: Luminosity, by Alicorn
Review: Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier, 1915
John Updike's 6 Rules for Reviewing
Review: William Congreve's "The Way of the World", 1700
Review: Shakespeare's Henry IV, parts 1+2
Collateral damage in Hamlet and the Merchant of Venice: Imbalances between character realism and plot requirements in Shakespeare
Book review and writing tip - Mask of the Sorcerer: Too much wonder
Review: The Hobbit (the 2013 Peter Jackson movie)
Peter Beagle: The Line Between
Review: Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy 2016
Hidden Figures: The real agenda is $$$
Henry James: Daisy Miller + Pandora
Review: Saul Bellow, Seize the Day (1953)
Saul Bellow's short stories
Review: The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
Update: The Razor's Edge
Review: Ivan Turgenev's Rudin (1856, Russian)
Review: William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying (I said some stupid things)
Confused by Charles Bukowski
New pony tale: "Loyalty" (but really about The Things They Carried)
Review: The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Review: House Made of Dawn
Review: I am Not a Serial Killer
The Last Jedi (no spoilers)
FANDOM
FimFiction (reverse chronological)
Author pie charts graph
Ficdom Structure 2: Author heat map
The importance of user interfaces: We have good stories because we have a good UI
A hypothetical question about thumbs
The stupidest thing about the featured box
Writer attrition: 1/3 per year: 1/3 of writers leave fimfiction each year
We are the two percent: 2% as many words are read on fimfiction as in English-language novels
How popular is each character tag?
A warning about the new bookshelves
EM Forster on Ulysses as fan-fiction
* Attrition: An estimate of the rate at which people leave fimfiction
When do readers know whether they liked a story?
Peachy: Inconsistent application of site rules.
EMERGENCY! (Unless you are Professor Plum): The case for meta-fics.
Black-and-red alicorns, I mean soldiers, in Equestria
Descriptions
The Firefly effect: Niche stories get fewer but more-interested readers
* Writing to not be disliked
More on writing to not be disliked
Serious Stories
Serious Stories 2.0
When do people read fimfiction?
First stab at recommendations
* Some statistics on fimfiction.net: Ranking authors
Other (reverse chronological)
Bronycon: And That's How Equestria was Made!: An MLP "Baron Munchausen / Evil Overlord"
Some Luna head-canon
Trotcon 2015
Their hate makes us strong: Bronydom is good because membership has a price
Bronycon 2014
Bronycon 2013
Sad bronies
* Collective Pony Nouns
* We're Number One, maybe
My Little Pony is not a women's show
Even here there be ponies
Why Double Rainboom offends me
And now, most-surreal My Little Pony reference in a webcomic!
Writers vs. artists on alicornification
WTF, Hasbro? Why are their plushies so bad?
Suddenly, I want to know: Whose name becomes the family name?
Abnormal: On being a brony
My My Little Pony / OkCupid experiment
Lauren Faust on MLP G1
Valve founder Gabe Newell is a brony
ME ME ME (chronological)
* Pony Tales
Bad Horse 2012: A self-indulgent self-review
So it turns out I'm Celestia
Bad Horse, ponykiller: Ruining MLP for my nieces.
Golden Vision interviewed me on livestream
Interview follow-up, reviews, and my secret story
On Moving On
Father's Day
I've been vaulted!
Writing: "All the Pretty Pony Princesses" vs. Charles de Lint: The conscious vs. the subconscious
Write-off: Yay me!
This could have been mine: The one who got away.
Canterlot's Finest / Moments
* My Royal Canterlot Library interview for "The Magician & the Detective"
Poll: So why are you watching me, anyway?
Fluttershy, Big Mac, and Mike Stahly
The White Wolf novel I'm (sort of) working on
Clarion write-a-thon
Clarion write-a-thon, starting now!
??p?? (Elpis (Hope))
An explanation of "Elpis"
Mailmare discussion [ALL THE SPOILERS]
Two and two-half barn-busting stories: Completions of that story beginning
I am now part of the literary canon: They teach me at Princeton!
Writing: The Mailmare, Fallout: Equestria, bad guys, and economics
InquisitorM on "The Mailmare"
Why it's easy for me to write fan-fiction
"Shut Up" and my "psychic experience"
reddit on Twenty Minutes now
The Worst of Bad Horse: Table of contents
My Books and How to Get Them
My upcoming Trotcon & Bronycon talks (2018)
Readings, Videos
Readings by AShadowOfCygnus:
Big Mac Reads Something Purple
Elpis
Trust
The Saga of Dark Demon King Ravenblood Nightblade, Interior Design Alicorn
Readings by Neighrator Pony:
Goldenmane and the Three Bears
Hansel and Gretel
Beauty and the Beast
Readings by Scribbler (obabscribbler@fimfiction):
Reading of "Twenty Minutes" by Ilya Leonov
Trust
The Corpse Bride
Reading of "Fluttershy’s Night Out" by Hero541:
chapter 1
chapter 2
chapter 3
Movie based on "Goldenmane"
Audio readings by me
Translations
Hungarian
Mortality Report, by Shidotoku
Russian
20 Minutes, Psychoshy@ficbook.net and others
Bedtime Stories, mahic-hay
The Gentle People, Doof Ex Machina, July 16 2019
The Gathering, Doof Ex Machina, Oct 5 2019
Spanish
Experience, by F3n1x
Sisters, SPANIARD KIWI, 6/17/2020
Mortality Report. SPANIARD KIWI 11/20/2020
OTHER
Humor
The 10 Creepiest Things About My Little Pony
My Dickish Pony: Ponies Are Dicks (S1-4) by PresentPerfect
Unicorn clop simulator!
We are not the weirdest people out there
Bronies: Living up to the stereotype
R34 explained
Yeah, I got your Hearth's Warming story right here.
Quote of the day: Wes of AmazingSuperPowers.com on cloning
Relief for lavender unicorn syndrome
Good pre-reader, bad pre-reader
bookplayer's 50 questions
We go to the gallery: Modern art for children
Happy holidays! (weird Santa GIF)
Programming language analogies
Publishers still don't get online distribution...
Silly human...
Today on FML: Brony-trolling fail
Now canon
Not canon
Mondays
It's good to be bad: Jaguars are for villains.
Leitmotifs
For SCIENCE!
Dragon, why u so mean?: Dragon mis-hears pony words.
What I learned today: "Pony play"
Rainbow Dash sighted in Indonesia
Found in a fortune cookie: A bizarre fortune.
You've had too much pony when...
My new alicorn OC
Celestia pin-up
Bad hair day / Awesome hair day?
The Original Batman
PSA for the yanks among us: An important new tax rule
Stupid of the Month for March (2018; NPT pipes, circle bridge, and artifact abuse)
Life
How to Lose
The Hunger Games and hypocrisy
Live a meaningless life
How the Web destroyed civilization
Other Other
The coolest thing I've seen this month: Apollo audio recording.
Daily D'awww
The tree that owns itself
Another reason to visit New Zealand: Hobbiton!
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Awesome, by the way. I can't wait to go through them all.
Curiosity: What was wrong with them?
Thank you. This is pretty awesome.
Excellent. You're going to add this to your fimfic page, right?
I've already clicked through and read a couple of the older ones that sounded interesting, so it's doing its job.
Very nice. I did an index for my stories recently for much the same reason, but probably won't for my blog posts, because I seldom say anything profound in them. I would advise you to link to this in your main page (like I did for mine) to make it easier to find for us later.
Because whenever EqD prereaders fail a story without reason, they always pin the blame on the show-don't-tell imaginary rule.
Thus, a flock of novice writers fell on your blog like hungry vultures, hoping to learn the trick that would increase their chances of getting published. 
Providing completely inaccurate remarks on topics I have no clue about since 2012.
Yay, an index! The main reason I didn't read your old blog posts yet is that navigating them in FIMFiction is a huge pain.
I second the request for you to link this on your page and, if possible, keep it updated. Though I'm not taking chances, I've already bookmarked this
BTW, do you have anything against getting new comments on month-old (or older) blog posts? If not, a few of mine might start appearing
2159835 I've got nothing against comments on old posts. This is the web, not a newspaper.
Bookmarked.
Funny enough, this is the reason I'm using this index at this very moment.
I have a ton of reading to do.
Did you ever read my "Grammar for Real People" blog series?
I really need to continue that....
I don't think I've ever thanked you for this blog index before now. It provides me hours of interesting reading.
4916157 Sorry it took me 4 years to answer! Typical. No, I hadn't. It looks good, and I added it to my blog index. Thanks!