When writers talk about what good stories should do, they almost inevitably conclude something like, "Good stories say something about what it means to be human."

The words vary little. Stories should "tells us what it means to be human," or "describe the human condition." Stories "are, in the end, always about humans."

Bullshit.

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I’ve been thinking. (Experienced readers are already ducking for cover.) Everybody knows about November being National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) where you pledge to write something every day with a goal of (insert optimistic number here) words at the end of the month. Well, that’s fine for people with incentive and drive and all those other things I don’t have, but what about procrastinators (like me) who spend most of November doing very little on most

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I wrote this for my personal blog this morning and thought it was relevant for this community as well. Enjoy!

I don’t normally read fanfiction; I generally despise it, as most of it is the most terribly written, hackneyed, typo-ridden dreck ever conceived. Rife with wish-fulfillment and self-inserts, fanfiction attracts the worst the amateur fiction community has to offer.

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I'm thinking about entering the Go Big or Go Home AppleDash writing contest. Usually I enter writing contests only if I already have a fanfic idea that loosely fits the contest theme. I didn't have an idea that would fit this theme, but for the opportunity to win a decent cash prize, I decided to come up with a new idea. And . . . I'm not sure if my fanfic will be one of the strongest entries, since my story

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I'm going to link here to a pretty good sounding article about dealing with the difficult middle part of a story: Habits & Traits #158: Getting Unblocked in the Sticky Middle

I'm currently sort of stuck like this on three different stories... four if you count Dæling With Yt.

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Hello to everyone and anyone who reads this. I don't know if you care or if you can even find this in the ocean of blogs already on this site. If you have seen the title, then you already know the basic idea of my current woes. To put it bluntly, I am very uncertain if I should write and post some of the stuff that I create for this site. Every time that I write a story, especially since my first story isn't doing so well, I have this feeling that no one will like it. Whenever I think about my

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Kinda sad about this! So here is what I have been working on, in order of priority of effort which will likely reflect the order of publishing as well. There are also three or four other planned stories I could have written about but feel like keeping even closer to my vest or whatever the expression is, for now. All of these are planned for the Teen rating.

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Hey guys,. currently doing some work... aka just started writing for the newest chapter, yet i suck XD but if anyone wants a sneak peak at the process or at what goes into it dm me and i shall send a link for Helljumper

I'm slowly working on some stories and trying to decide on what I should put up first. I'm a bit of a porny writer so you can expect clop stories of course but I've also got fluffy things in mind. I have a ko-fi available and if anyone wants to commission me that would be awesome. Hopefully I'll have the first chapter of something up soon so you can see how I write.

Might as well do another one of these writing updates. So first, let’s talk about Sweet Pepper

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"...and character development traits that we as fanfic writers can abuse to understand how to write better, and perhaps even apply in real life.

A discussion of sorts about Mass Effect, MLP, a bit of Avatar, and a bit of RL.

Let's start this with a familiar story: 

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I’ve been putting off doing Applebuck Season’s bloopers because I had school. I was also putting it off because I watched the episode and I do not like it. It fills me with very little joy.

Does anyone have any ideas?

I (with significant help) have finally finished Chapter 5 of MoaMC... So therefore, you all get to read Chapter 4!

Enjoy meeting the fun side of Witch's family!

Love and Light,
Witchy

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My pc broke. I ordered a part to fix it. That's why no new update for What They Expect to Give or its AJ/Sunset spin off yet.

Cross your fingers! Part should be here Monday at the latest.

As the title says, I was wondering; there's a long story I have planned in addition to The Song of the Spheres, one in a different continuity. Should I finish the Song before starting another big project, or should it be fine to have two ongoing series at the same time?

In other Eneasz-releated news, Eneasz recently blogged his reasons for believing that SF&F magazines (and, I'd assume, all print publishers) will soon have to stop taking unsolicited submissions, owing to the overwhelming number of AI-written stories being sent to them.

Back in 2014, I posted a flash-fiction about Luna called "The Quiet One". Yamgoth wrote in the comments of Luna's "cold, silent fury", which wasn't what I'd wanted to focus on.

Read the new version first (it's under 700 words; link may change so go back to the story TOC if it's wrong), then read the spoilered text below to see how I fixed it. Then, if you would, tell me which version you like better.

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SO!!! I finished chapter 6 a while ago, but I held off on posting Chapter 5 for MoaMC because I was afraid I'd reread it and either scrap it... or toss out a whole section or something silly/stupid like that!!! However, I've reread it a couple times, and I haven't done anything like that, so I added the author note and it's up! Woooooo!!!

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