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First lesson (on good dialogue). Ask away.

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So as you guys have likely seen, I have a new story goin' out right now. It's not exactly right to call it a story, though. Talking is Hard is meant to be an exercise so I can practice dialogue, which I've gone on record several times to say is the bane of my writing. But I'm not here to talk about that. Not quite.

I'm here to share the process I typically use when designing story covers.

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Good news everyone.

I've finally, after much bashing my head against the keyboard, managed to finsh the first draft of Hot Dam - Chapter 3, alongside Beetle & Blood - Chapter 5.

Going to send the GDocs link to the pre-readers/editors after I wake up tomorrow.

In the meantime enjoy some funky bass.

This here is where you can find a list of Blogs that I've written that help people write better. I know about half my followers follow me for helpful blogs so hopefully this can help someone as well.

Note: some lessons are links to videos, some have videos AND blog versions, and some blogs are collaborations with other authors,

Full Lessons:

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I have often been told that dialogue is one of my strongest areas as a writer. I find this compliment a bit unusual, because dialogue is often one of the areas that I spend the least time on. My dialogue technique involves a lot of instinct and guess work (I suppose a lot of my writing does). There is one area, however, where I did have to learn and research, because I am quite bad at it in real life.

Lying.

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So, I've noticed that my approach to writing the various main MLP characters is generally well-received, but it has not escaped my attention that some of my choices touch the occasional nerve. There are a million 'right' ways to write these characters of course...And the discerning pony of letters may even notice differences between how a character acts in one episode of the show to the next, depending on the episode's writer. All that being said, I want to lay out my general approach to the

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Hey everypony!
I just wanted to remind and inform anyone who didn't know that I'm scheduled to give my "5 Steps to Writing Anything" seminar at LooneyCon tomorrow. I'm scheduled for Friday at 8 PM GMT, which is...
4 PM US Eastern
3 PM US Central
2 PM US Mountain
1 PM US Pacific.
OR, about 12 hours from this post.

If you want to see it, be sure to get on the LooneyCon Discord, and watch the stream!

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Here they are! All of my writing advice posts in a master-index for y'all to scan through, and reordered for slightly better presentation than chronological order.

Writing Advice

General

COMING SOON: The 5 steps of Writing Anything like a Professional
Revising a Story

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>notices the recommended

>with the dialogue it's over hour longer

>nop

Terramar: Birb. Babe. Birbbabe, I said you're totally hot and suggested that anygriff who totally wouldn't is just gay.

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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:

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So, how well do you know your favorite, cute, little, adorable, yellow pegasus... Maybe even pony waifu?

Well, I found something that might just stock you about good old Fluttershy, find out what, below the brake...

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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.

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I've been a bit under the weather since Trotcon, but feeling better now.

This weekend I need to work on putting together some poni stuff for my niece (she's up here for her birthday), and my inability to do basic things makes that a bit difficult. So I may be delayed a few days on the Trotcon retro and the other long post I still really really want to share with y'all.

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