When you're on the site for four years, you pick up a few tips, skills, and personal advice. Not all of it is within this post. But this is all useful advice that I have taken into consideration.

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Menyiapkan Asuransi Yang Tepat Untuk Kendaraan Anda. Di zaman yang serba cepat seperti sekarang ini kendaraan menjadi hal yang paling mendukung untuk digunakan, apalagi dengan tuntutan waktu yang kian meningkat. Jika tiap waktu dihargai dengan uang maka anda tak bisa menyia-nyiakannya hanya karena tak memiliki kendaraan sendiri. Keberadaan kendaraan di tengah masyarakat modern merupakan hal yang sangat wajib untuk dimiliki, siapapun anda pasti menyadari manfaat akan benda yang satu ini

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The first entry in my recently revamped Cumulative Advice blog has me reminding people to never, ever, ever publish part of your work before the entire story is complete.

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The outline is your story’s skeleton. We call it this because it provides us with the bare bones required to identify the beast we are trying to create. It is the framework you hang the picture you’re painting on. This topic of the outline has been updated for my newly revamped Cumulative Advice blog, because I’ve still been discussing it at length ever since that blog was first published.

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Hi guys!

So I'm still working on the next chapter of MLD, and my biggest fear for this one is...dragging on. Like I said on a previous blog, I have three pages of Discord and Fluttershy talking to dolphins. Since the chapter isn't finished yet, I haven't edited it yet, but when I do...

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Hey everyone!

Yesterday I recorded a little podcast in response to someone on my tumblr asking me about frustration over not getting comments. I thought I would share it here just in case it's relevant and useful for anyone.

Listen here!

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I run roleplaying games every so often as I've been in the GM hotseat since I was seventeen when my first two DMs took major dumps on the game before quitting, lol. That's nearly ten years of me trying to learn how to be a better DM and lots and lots of study. At this point I could probably get paid to DM if I wanted to charge people.

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How would you react if, in the Avengers, Captain America agreed to bomb a building full of innocent people just to get a few bad guys? How would you feel if Twilight started treating her friends like dirt for no reason? How would you feel if Superman was fighting Zod, not caring about the collateral damage and causing countless deaths?

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I saw one of my pals on here write his own blog post about writing tips, so I figured I'd do the same to the few folks who might actually read this. It's not going to be anywhere near as cohesive or detailed as his, but hopefully it will get the job done, and maybe help a few people who have been having some trouble lately.

I don't have much, but what I have is yours. You're all friends, after all.

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I just love writing characters a lot. From heroes, to anti-heroes, to supporting characters, etc. But if there's one thing I'd love to write more, it's the villains and anti-villains. Whether big or small, serious or goofy, sympathetic or monstrous, villains are one of my breads and butters in terms of character writing. I'm not saying that I don't like writing hero characters or any other characters. I just think that villains are the most interesting types of characters from my point of

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My cumulative advice for writers has been progressively expanding to an unmanageable point for a single blog post. It’s been taken down to undergo restructuring as to produce a more manageable format. This blog post will be the hub for all subsequent topics and advice. It is broken into sections with a link to the individual posts, while containing a short blurb about the topic in question. If you find a link that doesn't work yet, stay tuned, it will.

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Worsening: Your sister broke her leg. You get her to the car and reach into your pocket. No keys. Ugh! Go to the house. It's locked. Of course it is; the keys are inside. You crawl through the open front window. Get your sister into the car and start the engine. Try to. It won't start. No gas. You bang the wheel and grab your phone, dialing press 911. When the operator answers, your phone dies. You hit your head against the wheel and look up. The police are racing down the

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Do not become attached to your ideas.

Let’s put that in a positive statement. Become attached to your successes. Though. Really. Be suspicious of all attachments in your writing. For beginning and intermediate writers, this almost always means your plot ideas.

There are no new ideas. There, I said it. Not yours, not mine, not anybody’s.

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Honestly, I think I just blew my own mind.

We call it personality because it's the reality of a person's being. But for mlp should it be ponyality because it's the reality of a pony's being?

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Hi-ho, Merc here! It's been a while since I've actually talked about writing on a writing-based website—most of them lately have been about vidya games or how awesome tits are.

Sometimes how awesome vidya gaem tits are, in a divine infusion of tastes. It's like a metaphorical PB&J of combos

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Another addition to the Cumulative Advice blog I've been writing; this one focuses on misconceptions as a core idea. The most fundamental misconception in all of literature occurs when the reader assumes that if a character believes (or says) a thing, then that thing must be true. This assumption undermines the very concept of characters as people, since it goes against the first rule of humanity:

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Wow… does that title sound… uh… racist.

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