"Oh Tumbleweed!" you cry.

"It is December which means we are deluged with holiday specials which means we in turn have to write holiday specials of our own! But since there's been like two three pony holiday episodes so far (not counting some shorts apparently?) what can we do to distinguish our own work?"

WELL LET ME TELL YOU.

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I promised a longer blog post, and I am here to deliver.

So!

For those of you who are interested (and if you're still reading this, I'm assuming you are), my latest story is the culmination of a pretty long creative process, and one that I'm still a little shocked I pulled off. Spoilers ahead, if you haven't read it.

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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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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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Like the title says.

FanOfMostEverything hosted another contest and since the theme was somewhat relatable to the last one, the story I wrote for it is a sequel to the misadventures of our favorite S.M.I.L.E. agents. This time the contest theme was different versions of the same character meeting, so you can all guess where this is going. If not, the sequel is titled How To Train Your Evil Doppelganger.

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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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GM Berrow: I'm still at the airport.

Heartshine: Okay, so, she's going to be late. So, how do you write female characters?

Amy Keating Rogers: Women are people. Just write them like people.

MA Larson: What she said.

*insert 58 minutes of making fun of Spike here*

7:30 am: Still can't sleep. Get out of bed, take shower.
8:30 am: Check computer.
9:15 am: Go to Denny's.
10 am: Regret going to Denny's.
10:40 am: Finally get back to room and change into real clothes for the day.
11:00 am: Make note of which episodes that Larson and Rogers worked on so I can reference it during panel to maybe ask for questions or elaborations from stuff they worked on.
11:15 am: Get to room for first panel. See Xepher and meet Pen Stroke.

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GUESS HOW OLD THE TEL ONESHOT IS TODAY

I wasn't originally going to write a blogpost because it's been a bad week, but then LILFUNKMAN spent an entire night doing that GIF so now I had to.

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