Exciting news for me. I finally finished the book I've been writing since the end of 2016. (I did take a 1.5 year hiatus in the middle.) It's my first full length novel, clocking in at 92k words. It feels like a significant personal accomplishment because I've never been able to weave a story over 40k without it stagnating or becoming riddled with filler. I've been trying to write a 'real book' by my definition for 14 years and this is the first time it feels like I actually pulled it off.

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Hello, dear readers!

As some might already know, I published a new fic:

THyperesthesia

• Equestria Girls
• Dark
• Horror

After learning about the Rainbooms’ previous adventures, Sci-Twi steals Sunset’s journal to write an urgent message.

• Suicide / Self Harm
• Twilight
• Sci-Twi

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I wanted to thank once again RDT for proofreading and giving useful suggestions to make this fic work, but I also wanted to thank you all for reading and supporting it to the point that it got a flame symbol yesterday!

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I've been sitting on 99 stories for a while now, almost 6 months, and I haven't published anything in 2023 except a couple new minifics in my anthology. But I've got one nearly ready to go!

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There are only two ways writers can fail to communicate: They either fail to make the reader understand the story, or they fail to understand it themselves. One way to guard against either sounds like "show, don't tell", but it's a little different: Depict key information physically, whether shown or summarized, but not just in dialogue or by making claims about abstract concepts.

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Got up this morning and was out the door with laundry earlier than I'm out the door for work.

Once I got all that washed, hung up, and put away, I went to the grocery store to pick up some ingredients to finally try some scrambled eggs, Gordon Ramsay style, to celebrate the end of my first intermittent fast, that I'm trying to get back into.

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Hey, folks. Well, to the folks who are around to read this, heh. Yet another 'long time no see' post to follow after the one I made last year. This post may be a slightly more somber note.

In a way I'm writing to you. In a way, I'm writing to myself. I suppose seeing all those AIs popping up everywhere that can write stories and whatnot has had me thinking, heh. Maybe... some small fear that I'll won't get the chance to finish my stories before some AI writes them all.

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I got 2700 words into the SYS-TER Chapter of "Equus Metamorphosis" and realized something wasn't working. I've been making notes for this chapter for about a week and revising the approach several times until I got to the point I'm at today. I had to stop and just step back.

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Before I even say anything, just know that I have no idea why I chose to rant about all of this right now. Just something that has been in the back of my mind since I've actually started seriously writing fics again.

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If I want to write something sad, I play songs like this one.

Music really does influence your mood when you write. Seriously though, give the song a listen. You youngsters probably don't know who Roy Orbison is, but that's okay. He's awesome.

I'm an old punk. I can listen to whatever the hell I want.

Here's a short blog for you, folks, the perfect size for the theme it preaches. One of the greatest challenges writers—or anyone engaging in an activity that thickens the tension in their hearts—face is starting.

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Announcing that the ScifiPony's Writer's Training Ground group is open for business! Visit weekly for writing prompts. My suggestions are based on current or past episodes. To jumpstart your creativity, I will tie each post to a deadline nudge you to quickly start and complete new short-stories or other fiction.

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Wait? Could it be? Is this a new post? A new Being a Better Writer post, back on its Monday schedule?

It is! Your eyes do not deceive you! I am writing!

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Last time, I went over the various 'levels' of comedy-- now, I'm gonna get into the specifics-- namely, tools, principles, and building blocks you can use when writing your own comedies. This is by no means a comprehensive list, but hopefully it'll be helpful, one way or another. So without further ado, let's get started!

Punch Up, don't Punch Down.

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Interview Rp Format
Nailah as Snow Heart
Bean as Bean.

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Just call me the Bullet Biter.

...Or you can call me Susan, if it makes you happy.

(C'est la vie. Read over the chapter like ajillion times. Will implement additional edits later. Mid-week by the sounds of it. Editor Man scanned the chapter and said he thought it looked interesting. That's good right? ... Good.)

I think I must officially be a writer now. I've got a Google Docs folder full of unfinished stories and no ideas how to get them finished.

This is how it's supposed to work, right?

But I can't rant because it will compromise my "participation" in a certain "event," if ya catch my drift. *sigh* ...

Fuckit.

I'm gonna try to convey what I'm trying to say anyway, because I'm stubborn.

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First, a disclaimer:

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New chapter is up. Shorter than the last...but I think you guys will still enjoy it.

Because I feel daring. Svedka kinda daring.

A confession about "Do That Again": It didn't make me laugh. I don't think I smiled while writing it. What was in my head while writing it was a series of calculations along the lines of "HUMANS WILL LAUGH AT THIS WITH PROBABILITY 0.57", to a soundtrack of guilt for writing feature-box clickbait that wasn't even proper clop.

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