In my story 'Journey to Midnight Castle', I planned for Twilight to become an Archmage in the Coronation. Basically, every four years, Princess Celestia chooses one of her most promising students to become an Archmage, but I need ideas on how to make the Archmage more powerful than a normal mage.

Edit: By the way, the Coronation takes place in Chapter 1, before Nightmare Moon returns to Equestria.

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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I've got some anecdotal tips stored up and wouldn't mind sharing if someone wants to hear them.

Don’t mind me, just climbing on my soapbox again...

There we are.

Hotshotting, if you’re unfamiliar with the term, comes from pro wrestling. I’ll admit that’s a strange place to start a blog on writing, but given the staged (“fake”) nature of the business, pro wrestling has always had an element of theater and entertainment to it. The basic premise of “Two men don’t like each other, and people pay to watch them fight,” has sold out arenas across the world for decades.

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So this is a short one, and a specific one, but I just got asked an interesting question, and I thought I'd expand on it in here:
How do you deal with characters in a horror story getting a victory, a big win, without killing the sense of tension in the story.

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This morning I submitted my latest story Bromance Night and it barely got to 100 views. The advice I need is how do I get a story that can get some kind of attention? I did had those once in awhile but not enough to give me more followers.

So, I'm rapidly approaching chapter 50 of my story. I've never really gotten this far, and I can assure you I'm doing something worthy of the prestigious number. But it's also getting me thinking about something else regarding the story as a whole. If you didn't already know, I hold this humble tale of mine quite close to my heart. I've said before that I based Boltsinger off of aspects of my own personality, with other notable characters based on people with the same relationship towards me

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As a writer of "The Lives Among The Equines" I want to know your opinions on whether or not I should a new story a Tragedy. So here's the deal, you can choose which of these two options, should I:

1) Utterly ripping the reader's heart to shreds, then throwing the pieces to the wind
2) Breaking their hearts, only to heal it back with an uplifting ending

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Three years ago, I posted a guest column on Chris's blog about some kinds of gimmick stories, how to make them work, some common pitfalls, etc. for epistolary stories, dialogue-only stories, and open endings. There's one more kind that has been on my thoughts lately. More after the break.

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Now, something I have been told time and time again is; “Just write. No matter how bad it is you are still writing and you can always go back and unfuck the disaster.” Now I understand where people are coming from, and I know they mean well, but let me beat something into the skulls of all the authors that keep giving this advice.

It’s not for me.

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Ok, let me first clarify the title of this blog. "Earning your end" is a phrase I try to write all of my stories by that can be summarised by; "If you want the story to end a particular way, especially happily, break your protagonists." One of my biggest pet peeves is stories where a happy ending happens, but the main character really didn't lose anything. For a story that ends happily, I find it to be much more satisfactory if I read the protagonist getting their shit pushed in during the

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Google defines 'gore' as blood that has been shed, especially as a result of violence, but that's kida vague. The trigger warning help is also vague. If we go by the Google definition, a paper cut can be considered gore. What is the minimum about of blood that needs to be shed to be considered gore? Would it still be considered gore if one just wrote "it was then he realized his hand was chopped off" without any further details about the chopping? Do I need to put the gore tag on every story

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I keep saying these should be a weekly Wednesday thing. The problem isn't that I'm unwilling to sit down and write these, but rather that I frequently lack the inspiration. However, stalking the FimFiction Discord channel's Writers' Help chat has given me an abundance of it. I'm brimming over with it, and no small amount of frustration.

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Hey guys, I'm not dead, and neither is my story. I'm officially completed my semester at college and it's such a relief. I should be getting out more chapters pretty soon, hopefully. But besides that I'm also here to ask for some advice, you see I don't have a computer of my own, and I've been talking with my Mom about it and we've agreed that we'll get one soon just for me so I don't have to deal with the hassle of borrowing the laptop from my brothers to do homework when it's supposed to be

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I'm working on several new stories and could use some help. They're titled An Apple and a Strawberry, about a sister rivalry between Strawberry Sunrise and Applejack, one's a Button Belle story, and the third is Son of Big Mac and Cheerilee. Could use some advice on how to start these off. Thanks.

Does anyone have any advice on how to approach your crush?

I wish to be many things.

An exciting author who releases compelling blogs is one of them. On this site, there a two type of blogs: personal and impersonal.

A good blogger walks a fine line between the two.

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I have a lot of opinions. A lot of beliefs. But I force myself to keep my mouth shut because I hate drama.

Read a bad story? You might be tempted to leave a review and explain what's wrong. Don't. Every time I have tried to help another improve their work, they respond with insults and whiny excuses. I have learned that it is a waste of my time to review stories. All you'll get from me is a thumb up or down and your story added to one of my libraries if I at least mostly enjoyed it.

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Okay, in Journey to Midnight Castle, Tirek is suppose to perform a ritual involving captured ponies, the Rainbow of Darkness, and Nightmare Moon, to bring forth eternal night. But since in JTMC, Celestia is in control of both the Sun and Moon, how can this ritual work? Any advice?