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Apr
18th
2022

Being a Better Writer: Delivering a Villain and Making Them Truly Scary · 10:30pm Apr 18th, 2022

Mar
1st
2022

Being a Better Writer: Setting Up for a Sequel · 12:48am Mar 1st, 2022

Welcome back readers! It’s Monday again, and you regulars know what that means!

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Dec
12th
2022

Being a Better Writer: Balancing Beats and Exposition · 11:05pm Dec 12th, 2022

Welcome back, writers, to the final Being a Better Writer installment of 2022!

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Feb
25th
2016

Examining Flaws in Human in Equestria Stories: The Lack of Aliens · 4:01am Feb 25th, 2016

I’ve ranted in the past about how FiM breeds wish fulfillment, and how crossovers fundamentally violate the Law of Conservation of Detail. I mentioned in the latter that Human in Equestria has similar problems. Oddly, despite having similar problems, HiE also has other problems that are all its own (despite crossovers often involving humans anyway).

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Jan
14th
2019

Being a Better Writer: The Five-Man Band · 10:57pm Jan 14th, 2019

Welcome back, readers, to another Monday! Which of course means another Being a Better Writer post. I do want to keep these to Monday if at all possible. Work shifts permitting.

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Jan
21st
2018

Ivory Tower · 7:13am Jan 21st, 2018

Oh, lonely tower made of bone
days of endless sun shone
and made you unready for flights of rain
that made breaches of your walls that forever stain;
the cracks and the voids in a tool now useless
to show your life as one that was ruthless.

O' tower, your tyranny delights in the flights of fancy
your material expensive. exotic. chancy.
In glory divine, in destruction divide
is it really not clear why your enemies hide?

Is there naught in your reign you cannot justify?

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Mar
15th
2021

Being a Better Writer: Nailing the Last Third · 10:24pm Mar 15th, 2021

Hello readers, and welcome back to another installment of Being a Better Writer! A little late today, as my morning ended up running a little long. But still here on Monday, so that’s what counts.

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Jul
14th
2019

Setting Up for Act (Arc) 2 of Ballad of the Dawn, plus Twitter and Stuff · 6:04am Jul 14th, 2019

Hey guys! Takarashi282 here! Just wanted to update you guys on stuff real fast!

First, Act 2 of Ballad of the Dawn is called an 'act' and not an 'arc'. Just like the word 'act' better.

Second of all, I'm going to take a little more time in planning Act 2. I want it to be the best that it can be, which means a good pace, more clear character arcs, and more consistent characterization. This means that it may or may not take longer for Act 2 to come out. But this is good, because...

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Feb
7th
2022

Being a Better Writer: Character Fridging · 10:28pm Feb 7th, 2022

Welcome back readers! It’s another Monday and that means it’s time for another installment of Being a Better Writer! We’ve got an interesting (and surprisingly volatile) topic for you today, one that very likely may prove quite useful to you, but first, before we get that, two quick news reminders.

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Jun
12th
2022

The Backrooms - Strange Structure · 10:40pm Jun 12th, 2022

Feb
20th
2023

Being a Better Writer: Nintendo’s Rule of Three · 8:43pm Feb 20th, 2023

Welcome back, writers! It’s the first Being a Better Writer article post LTUE! So, in fact, maybe that should also be “Welcome, new writers,” because there may be a number of you checking out Unusual Things for the first time post-convention.

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Aug
12th
2019

Being a Better Writer’s Summer of Cliche Writing Advice: Don’t Be Boring · 8:44pm Aug 12th, 2019

Apr
1st
2019

Zephyr's New Plan Making Of · 10:10am Apr 1st, 2019

Feb
5th
2017

11 Structures Made With Bones · 5:38pm Feb 5th, 2017

11 Structures Made With Bones

People have been building various things from bones for centuries. Here are just a few structures that were made with the leftover remains of the dead.


Structure One: The Skull Tower of Nis

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Sep
14th
2015

Continuation versus Conclusion; The Dichotomy of Story Structure · 7:12am Sep 14th, 2015

The more fiction I consume, the more I notice patterns. Pigeonholing subjective art is never going to be perfectly accurate, but there are generalizations that have some truth. Today, I’d like to talk about a pattern that is present in all fiction, but is more noticeable and more identifiable in fanfiction.

Broadly speaking, fiction can be divided into two types; those that are designed to conclude, and those that are designed to continue for as long as possible.

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Mar
19th
2024

Being a Better Writer: Character Competence · 1:01am March 19th

Jan
24th
2022

Being a Better Writer: Tabletop Conversations · 10:44pm Jan 24th, 2022

Feb
14th
2022

Being a Better Writer: The Chosen One · 10:19pm Feb 14th, 2022

Sep
20th
2021

Being a Better Writer: Making Characters “Pop” · 9:15pm Sep 20th, 2021

Hello readers! How are you all this Monday morning? Or I suppose afternoon, as it’s about to be? Spry? Alert?

Hopefully that last one, because you’re about to read another Being a Better Writer post! Furthermore, it’s not a scheduled one!

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Apr
11th
2016

Celestia and Luna versus a cloud: Post-match analysis · 4:33pm Apr 11th, 2016

On the one hoof, Celestia and Luna are the closest thing Equestria has to gods. They control the sun, the moon, and the stars; they're thousands of years old and still in their prime; they're capable of magical feats beyond any unicorn. The only beings who've ever fought either of them to a standstill are each other, Discord, Chrysalis (beefed up on more love than she'd ever known before), and the Smooze (who, under the circumstances, we can file under Discord). What they fought couldn't have

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