Hey everypony! Getting excited for HarmonyCon in less than a month!

If you want to go, and still want a badge, you can still purchase them in advance at harmonycon.org. Remember, Director Jim Miller, Comic Artist Tony Fleecs, and the voices of Zecora, Ocellus, and Starlight Glimmer will all be there!

For those who are attending or watching the streams, these are my seminars...

Worldbuilding 101

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I suggest that you go and follow MylittleObjection718 because she's awesome, nice, friendly, helpful, and sweet! Keep up the good story writing and work!!

-Shimmer Shy

Octavia’s Story Making-Of

I originally intended to make this a complete bare-bone story. As in, no outline, no character sketches or location analyses. I wanted to write without preparing anything. But, being the I-hate-editing-so-I-outline-every-single-thing kind of writer that I am, I wrote two quick pages of potential making-of material anyway. Sorry, I couldn’t help myself! But then again, now you have some interesting behind-the-scenes material to read.

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i've mentioned it before, but the gap between now and Nightmare Night is killing me, its all original story that i haven't been carefully planning for years now (save for one scene) and i can't help but feel insecure about it.

i still have a couple of crucial scenes to write on the latest chapter of Family Tree, and it's already at over 8,000 words. i know that's not all that long in retrospect, but the average FT chapter is usually around 5k so it feels very wordy to me.

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Next chapter is a light little snippet from the night before they leave for the Hive, and I'd like to get the rest of the Hive arc out pretty soon after that.

The unedited version's up on Patreon for my early backers. (anypony who gives me $1 or more on there is gonna get the un-proofed chapters from now on)

Weirduary is still in full swing on my other profiles at Eka's portal and Furaffinity, but you'll have to find that yourself if you are interested~.
(I'll even give you a clue, a keyword even to traverse the interwebs... Septia.)

there are some fun pony projects I have in the works as well, but those should be coming first after Weirduary has passed. After that, who knows, I'll be open for more commissions.

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Really excited to work on this.

My detective story, I'm nervous about it, because I want to make the cases work, build up from small cases and then for them to go bigger.

I hope to put some pics in, and they are beautifully made by Hoodwinked MCShelster

Here is just some examples of the work, Clue Chaser and his ever lasting trouble with the CMC, his best friends... Oh boy...

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In The Movie, Songbird Serenade is a generic celebrity with a noticeably foreign accent, nothing more than a MacGuffin—but her song in the movie, especially in the scene where's she's singing it in a cage and Twilight rolls by, hints at a rich though unpleasant past as an immigrant.

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Contained after the break: Three writing prompts in no particular order, a discussion about what makes a good writing prompt for different situations or reasons, and the friendliest competition in the comments section that you ever will see.

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hey guys so I have been working on my own gaming forum and now it is ready for some members. It is very new so bare with me but please check it out or spread the word if you can as that would be awesome There are sections for writing, cartoons and anime discussion there to in case you want that and you can pretty much talk about anything on there if you want. There are competitions and challenges weekly, monthly and yearly and there is the latest news for each

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Hello readers! How was your weekend? Get any good reading in? I did. Working my way through Jack Campbell’s second Lost Fleet series, which has been good fun. Spoilers, but he has an interesting approach to alien life.

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I don't want to imply that I'm not floored by the love and tollerance of most of the Brony community, or that I'm not very pleased by the reception my writing gets. But: WHY DO PEOPLE DOWNVOTE MY CLOPS? Are these people homophobes (they definitely are, my M/M fics get hammered especially hard)? Do they think incest is gross? Understandable, but don't piss in my cereal. Is it because I don't actually have a sex drive IRL and I'm getting how sex works wrong? Is it because I have a chart detailing

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you should see this anatomy like

holy fak

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So... apparently my submission for Art for Fanfiction's 2019 Summer Writing Contest won second place.

This is very, very strange. My writing is honestly not that good! Why do people like it so much?!

This is very weird, yet flattering.

Hello readers! Welcome back to another episode of Being a Better Writer! There’s no weekend news (or rather any you didn’t already know past Episode 10 of Fireteam Freelance dropping), so we’re just going to dive right into things and get down to it!

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It is finally out!

Valhalla! Well, new title, didn't like the old one. Hehe.

It has been three years in the making, in fact, I set it up as the third story that was to come out. However I never got around to it, partly because I had not planned it out, and partly because I wanted to get more experience.

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Oh brother... here we go again...

People who want LIKABLE WRITING VS ME (A guy who prefers more REALISTIC WRITING than cliched expectancy)

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UnintentionallyUnsympathetic/FriendshipIsFailure

Mykan's Author Avatars in Friendship is Failure are meant to be seen as martyrs who didn't get what they wanted and have to suffer because of it.

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