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Meta | 7
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Rules, Guidelines, and Rubrics
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Meet the Professors
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Meet the Admins
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Cafeteria
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Suggestion Box
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Study Hall


Activity | 12
~ Story Adoption Center
~ What Helps You Write?
~ Trivial Epics
~ Description
~ Character Development
~ OC Rating and Discussion Thread
~ Character Development Sheet "Guest Speaker"
Contribute to a Lecture on Characterization in Dialogue
~ Developing an Antagonist
~ May Contest ~ End of Submission period ~ Results
~ June Contest ~ End of Submission period ~ Results
~FebFIMFanFicLove
~Thirty Minute Writing Challenge With Prompt


- The Handy Dandy Writers Resource
- The Best Time To Post A Story, With Science!


Lecture | 83
General
~ A Tool for Authors: DO IT WRONG ON PURPOSE!
~ Plagiarism
~ Practice Practice Practice!
~ Glossary of Common Terms Around Fimfiction (Is also tagged Faux Pas)
~ The Legality of Fanfictions
~ Ideas into words
~ Finding Inspiration
~ Techniques and Tips for Staying Focused On Your Writing
~ Proper Etiquette
~ The most important thing
~ Canon
~ Building a Reputation
~ Stupid Stories and Why They Succeed
~ Dissection of canon and fanfic
~ Hazardous Topics
~ Fan fics of other fan fics
~Ten Suggestions to Improve Any Story, Part 1
~Ten Suggestions to Improve Any Story, Part 2
~Discovering Your Writing Style (Advanced)
~What is Canon And What is Not
~Writer's Block (The Solution)
~Using Advice For Fun And Profit
~What to Do Once You've Finished A Story
~ Introduction to Writer's Tools

Genre Mechanics
~ The Beginner's Guide to Genre Difficulty
~ Sad Story
~ Second Person Stories
~ Horror and all its illegitimate offspring (Is also tagged Faux Pas)
~ Writing a Quality Romance
~ My Kingdom For a Horse (On Writing An Army)
~ The "Dark" Tag/Genre and How Not To Overdo It
~ Five Tips for Avoiding Brainworms in Romance Fics
~ Writing Time Travel
~ Writing an All-OC Story: Tips

Story Structure
~ Story Descriptions
~ Author's Notes
~ A Guide to Story Forms
~ Logical Progression
~ On the Beginnings
~ Dramatic Story Arc
~ Subplots
~ Monomyth (or, The Hero's Journey)
~ Retroactive Continuity
~ Foreshadowing
~ Types of Conflict
~ Conflict & Which ones to avoid (Is also tagged Faux Pas)
~ Setting - Finding the Right Time and Place
~Augmenting a Podcast on Beginnings (Field Trip)
~Exploration, Progress, and Pacing
~How To Create A Story
~Setting The Scene
~Closing The Scene
~Deconstruction of Equestria Girls: A Lesson in Story Structure
~Panel on Plot with Pen Stroke, GarOak, BronyWriter and PiquoPie
~Scene Transitions
~ Pony Take the Wheel: On Planning v. Improvisation
How Pacing Can Influence Your Narrative

Writing Techniques
~ Actions Speak Louder than Words
~ An Ideal Process
~ Story Pictures
~ Showing vs. Telling (For the Millionth Time)
~ The Three Types of Sentences in Storytelling
~ The Way Of The Written Fist— errr— Hoof! (Combative Prose! Part 1)
~ Tone
~ The Hook
~ Inadvertent master grade world building
~ World Building
~ "Brony slang" and why it sucks (Is also tagged Faux Pas)
~ Why putting music into your story is comparable to shooting your piece of literature in the foot
~ Good Themes, and their complimentors
~Third Person Cinematic—The Terrible Perspective
~Stream of Consciousness
~Advertising
~Taking The Character's Perspective
~Do You Focus More On Action/Characterization in An Action Scene?
~The Stubbornness of Perspective
~Fanfiction the Community And You, an EFNW 2014 Writing Panel (Field Trip)
~Everything You Didn't Even Know You Wanted to Know About Writing Mechanics (Field Trip)
~The Psychology of Expletives/Swearing In Writing
~Atmospheric Music and Entertaining Music: The Difference
~A Swift Buck To The Face (On The Subject Of Fight Scenes)
~ How to Avoid 'Said'
~ Exposition Tools


Editing
~ Credibility and Checking Your Facts
~ Twelve Techniques to Improve Your Writing through Editing
~ Punctuation-in-Depth #1: Semicolon
~ Punctuation-in-Depth #2: Quotations
~ Punctuation-in-Depth #3: The Colon
~ Punctuation-in-Depth #4: Italics and Underlining
~ Dependent Clauses, or Why Your Commas Are (Mostly) Wrong.
~ The Said Tags
~ Paragraphs
~ Rhythm in Prose
~ Onomatopoeia
~ Grammar with a Wrestler (Is also tagged Field Trip)
~ Word Choice
~ Adjectives/describing things
~ Grammar
~ Dialog
~How Ctrl+F Can Make You A Better Writer
~Punctuation Turns The Brain

Characters
~ Equine Anatomy
~ The Mary Sue
~ What makes an OC? (Is also tagged Faux Pas)
~ Cutie Marks
~ OCs and how to use them (Is also tagged Faux Pas)
~ Complete Your Story Before Posting
~ Tips for Naming OC's
~ Creating Deep and Believable OCs
~ I Sit next to a Crazy Person (Memorable Flat Characters)
~ Antagonists
~ The Antagonist (Redux)
~ Villians
~Building Round and Realistic Main Characters
~Balancing A Large Cast of Characters
~How to Write Character Types
~Writing Strong Female Characters
~ How to Pinkie Pie (Faux Pas)
How To Write A God/Goddess
~ Characterization in Dialogue
~ Why Discord is a Gamebreaker


Sub-Lecture | 18
~ How to Get More Views on Your Story (Is also tagged Field Trip)
~ Story Updating and How You Can Continue A Masterpiece or Rush a Harbinger of Destruction
~ Self-Theorized Judgement on What It Takes to Write an Interesting Scene.
~ The Department of Redundancy Department
~ Planning
~ Go now and get a Journal (BeauZoe's rant) (Is also tagged Faux Pas)
~ Originality (Is also tagged Faux Pas)
~ Active Voice and Passive Voice.
~ Names (Is also tagged Faux Pas)
~ Spin-offs, unofficial sequels, alternate endings, etc. and why they fail and/or suck (Is also tagged Faux Pas)
~ The concept of "war"
~ Why Humanized Universes Are Risky (Is also tagged Faux Pas)
~ Crossovers (Is also tagged Faux Pas)
~ Ellipsises
~ Interrobangs and When and How to Use Them
~How Many Words Should You Have?
~How To Deal With Lack of Love And Appreciation For Your Content
~Confidence
~Knowing When It's Time To Post
~Double Checking
~Collaborations And Learning From The Best
~The Misadventures of... "of"
~The Expression of the Pony Body
~ Beating Description Blues


Pro-Tip | 23
~ TehAlphaGamer's Box of Memories. Hire an Editor! (Is also tagged Field Trip)
~ THINKING BEFORE YOU POST/Do a little research next time! (Is also tagged Faux Pas)
~ (Re)Watch the Show
~ A Great Ally in the War of Staying Original
~ Klondike's Evening Ramble (Is also tagged Faux Pas)
~ Enriching Dialogue Scenes
~ Your Goal
~ Writing for the Love of Writing and Not for Popularity
~ Typing
~ The Mary Sue Test (Is also tagged Field Trip)
~ Relating and Developing a Connection to a Character.
~ Multiple personalities
~ Internet Urban Legends/Creepypastas and Why They're Horrible Ideas for Fanfiction (Is also tagged Field Trip)
~ Niche Subjects and How to Draw Readers Into Them
~ Stupid arguments and how they attract readers (Is also tagged Field Trip)
~ insta-shipping (and why I hate you for writing it)
~ 5 Tips for Writing Maud Pie
~ Shipping!
~ Pacing
~ How to Vary Sentence Length and Why It's Important
~ Death To "Very!"
~ Burn Your Thesaurus!
~ How To Stimulate The Creative Centers Of The Brain
~ Sad Stories
~ The Double-Edged Sword of Improvement
~ Bad OCs
~ Pony Names

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