Iron Author 2022

Iron Author 2021 was closed last year but it’s time to spring forth with a new round in my favourite month of the year! Winter is drawing to a close here and it is time for spring to appear (I promise not to start singing MLP songs, though Winter Wrap Up is particularly apt), so let’s get cracking with a good list of discounted mini story slots!

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Today’s post is going to be more about editing. Sort of. But I’m getting ahead of myself.

So first, welcome back readers! I hope you all had a good weekend! Especially with Episode 12 of Fireteam Freelance having dropped on Saturday. Was that a ride or what?

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I’ve heard reports that some people consider the pre-Beatles 60’s to have some of the worst pop music in Billboard history. This year I was starting to see it.

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After much editing and revising, and not having a chance to have anyone proofread or edit it because my friends are busy, it has arrived! Chapter 11 of my FoE fic!!!!

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Not British, but I loved the concept of this special occasion. I should probably read V for Vendetta again someday...

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I’ve been caught in a dreg of OC stories lately (and more to come considering I just experienced something it would be remiss to not write a Raining-Verse story about it). A lot of them have been good OC stories, but nobody reads OC stories.

So here’s some good old-fashioned Rarishy (kinda).

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I've moved in every random thing I had to from where I was living previously and I'm much more balanced in what I can do writing wise. I had to write stuff that wasn't as labor intensive for the last six months to not have some sort of stress related mess happen.

Doesn't mean I never looked at the chapter I had had wanted to start writing back in December, November whenever I last updated.

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Hey everypony,
Remember last week when I said I was thinking about participating in the November Writing Challenge? Well, even though my apartment move in date was moved back again (Facehoof), I decided 'Sure. WHY NOT?' and have been writing like MAD!

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So, I have some updates, albeit few. I've been working on another chapter for Beautiful Stories, and have also been hopping over to my official novel project and doing work there. Great news on the latter is that I've managed to finish the prologue (though, it is a tad short), and have already started up the first proper chapter. I've also written down some key notes to help me keep things straight,

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So, recently I've been redoing some of my old maps for "The Song of the Spheres," and between them and my worldbuilding notes I've run into a bit of a problem: a lot of them don't make sense.

- Big honkin' gaps in borders with traditional enemies? I'm sure nothing bad ever happened with that!
- My poor, smooth, Euro-centric brain decided to go with semi-feudalism for Homestria's history instead of what it should be (psuedo-Confucism with "Harmony" instead of "The Mandate of Heaven").

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Welcome back writers! As work continues getting Axtara – Magic and Mischief (I still miss Mayhem, but we’ll be getting a BaBW post on that next week) that hasn’t stopped Being a Better Writer from delivering!

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I am back.

The last two months have been spent by me in a cave. Not a literal cave, no, a metaphorical one. But a cave nonetheless. Actually, I was sitting in a deep, dark cave constantly ever since the end of January 2017, when a very unfortunate event in the LoE dev team knocked me down like I had never been knocked down before.

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hi! sorry i haven't made one of these in a bit, but in the mess of life, i've once again washed up on the shores of fimfic here to hack up some updates/news/words.

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So it’s in fashion for authors to do a monthly review of their work. Seen a few folks do it. I think I’m going to start one of my own. It’ll help when I’m feeling discouraged about progress for my stories. In case you're working, the "Takka Takka Takka" is the sound of fingers on a keyboard. I'm 'borrowing' it from Diane Duane's Twitter Account profile pic.

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IN WHICH I PERSEVERED AND DID SOMETHING

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GUYS.

YES.

YOU WON'T BELIEVE IT.

CRYSTALLINE IS GETTING A RE-WRITE! THAT'S WHY SOME STUFF HASN'T UPDATED RECENTLY IS BECAUSE I CURRENTLY HAVE 10 CHAPTERS OF THE NEW VERSION OF PINK ONE AND SNARK HORSE'S UTTERLY RADICAL QUEST WHICH YOU CAN SEE ON THE FRONT OF MY PAGE. THIS MEANS YOU'LL GET TO HAVE WRITING ON PAR WITH TOMB OF MAGIC INSTEAD OF BELOW IT. THE ERRORS IN THE ORIGINAL WILL PERISH.

BUT OHMYGOSH. THERE'S SO MUCH PINK.

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Well, I'll say this: I'm less dead than I look.

Anyway, today I'd like to take a moment to talk about opening lines. We've got an Original Short Story Writeoff finishing up this evening.[1] I've spent a lot of the last week reading and reviewing, and beginning some revisions on an original story of my own. Going through this month's Writeoff entries, though, got me thinking about one of my favorite topics in fiction—and one it seems I've never blogged about before—opening lines.

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New video on my channel from Gary Oak on What Makes a Great Story Part 2/3 Execution

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I've been told that I do original characters well,* so I thought I'd share some of my secrets with y'all.

Source

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