Derpy Hooves' Advice · 5:39pm Jul 3rd, 2015
Never let a stumble here or there convince you that you can’t walk. ~TrueDerpyHooves
Never let a stumble here or there convince you that you can’t walk. ~TrueDerpyHooves
tl;dr: I want to name a writing project and have no good ideas. Skip down a bit for story info.
I don't really have too many people looking my way yet, but I figured I'd drop this for whatever random people scan random blog posts or the few that might have this pop up in their feed.
Before we get into today’s blog topic, I just want to quickly revisit some of the political stuff from my second-to-last blog post.
Bad news: there’s still feds running around kidnapping people. They've retreated from Portland, but are explicitly being sent to other cities.
I started work on the next chapter for Requiem of Friendship, and I still have to work on the partially done chapters for Titanfall-Skies Ablaze and Event Horizon.
Problem is...
Despite the bangout success of my last fic, I'm tempted to add a tiny change.
I don't think I stuck the landing. I wanted to add something like this at the end:
In the middle of their embrace, the tiniest twinkle appeared in the tip of Luna's tail.
Should I?
Horror Stories are Still Stories
Four pieces of actual advice for writing horror that really should go without saying.
Welcome back readers! Today’s post is going to be a bit of an unusual one. Why, you may ask? Well, because of the news you’re about read, which will be followed by a shorter, micro-blast level Being a Better Writer post.
You know what I feel like when someone introduces a new house rule for a game, doesn't tell me about it, and then penalizes me for breaking a rule I didn't know?
Seriously though, it's not a good thing so today I'm going to talk a little bit about guidelines on house rules.
Long time no see. Been up to stuff. Mom had surgery, gotta take care of her. Extra office hours. Lotta crap going on.
I've been asked to finish and post blog entries for Writing Advice and Looking Back, a chapter of Displaced into Nothing, and I'm trying to wrap up a commission, all by year end.
Through a combination of getting really sick of seeing people butcher Luna's archaic speech in their fics and happening to be studying the subject at the time, a few months ago I decided to make a simple guide to writing Luna dialogue correctly. I put it off way too long, and I'm not even sure it's relevant anymore, since Luna's rehabilitation has kinda passed as a fad in the fimfiction community, but here it is anyway:
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.
Some background first.
So, as some know, I've had two boyfriends and I'm on a third.
The first boyfriend lasted a month and I'm not entirely sure either of us really felt anything for each other. Haven't talked to him in a while, but I still consider him a friend *shrug*
Note: I'm cross-posting this from my blog. You may want to read it there since WordPress allows me to use fancier markup like proper section headers, definition lists, and tables.
Unfortunately, not every critique can fill up a thousand word blog post. Here is a selection of reviews/critiques, in two sentences each.
Cant by Rambling Writer:
Some mood music for your viewing pleasure.
Overpriced Writing Advice
Where you can learn the stuff I paid thousands of dollars to have taught to me, for free.
Research
(Or "3 Steps To Learn More For 'Write What You Know'")
Overpriced Writing Advice
Where you can learn the stuff I paid thousands of dollars to have taught to me, for free.
10 Formal Interview Tips
Unfortunately, not every critique can fill up a thousand word blog post. Here is a selection of reviews/critiques, in two sentences each.
Last year, to celebrate my three year anniversary on the site, I wrote a long, meandering blog post looking back on all the writing I had done. It was an interesting exercise, though its experimental nature perhaps limited its utility.