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Feb
13th
2023

Being a Better Writer: How to Use a Writing Resource Like LTUE · 9:49pm Feb 13th, 2023

Welcome back writers. I’d venture a guess that you’ll likely be able to guess what big event is going on this week simply by looking at today’s topic.

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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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Feb
18th
2020

Being a Better Writer: Keeping a Short Story Short · 3:48am Feb 18th, 2020

Hello readers! Welcome back after a spectacular Life, The Universe, and Everything writing convention! I hope you were able to attend, or if not, that you’ll be checking their youtube channel to see what’s posted as they upload panel recordings! The experience was incredible!

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Mar
28th
2022

Being a Better Writer: Good Ideas and Avoiding the Bad Execution · 9:26pm Mar 28th, 2022

Mar
8th
2021

Being a Better Writer: Working with Trad-Pub · 10:09pm Mar 8th, 2021

Hello readers! Welcome to another Monday, to Being a Better Writer, and one of the last reader-requested topics of Topic List #16!

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Aug
9th
2021

Being a Better Writer: A Little Bit About Copyright · 9:01pm Aug 9th, 2021

Apr
6th
2020

Being a Better Writer: Entertainment Value VS Quality · 9:38pm Apr 6th, 2020

Nov
2nd
2020

Being a Better Writer: Why Stories Need Conflict · 10:58pm Nov 2nd, 2020

Hello readers! Before we dive into today’s (somewhat delayed) Being a Better Writer post, I have an urgent PSA for all of you residing in the United States.

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Jan
26th
2021

Being a Better Writer: Clarke’s Three Laws · 12:33am Jan 26th, 2021

Hello readers! Yes, I know I must apologize for the lateness of this post in coming online. But I had a really good reason, one that I think many of you will sympathize with: I was up extremely late last night reading a book. Which I then finished this afternoon as soon as I could.

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Jul
20th
2020

Being a Better Writer: Being Your Own Worst Critic · 11:52pm Jul 20th, 2020

Jul
26th
2021

Being a Better Writer: Killing Your Babies · 9:21pm Jul 26th, 2021

Hello again readers! Today’s Being a Better Writer post is going to (hopefully) be a bit shorter, because I’m on the last pages of the epilogue for Starforge and I want to finish it! This draft is so close to being done I can taste the freedom!

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Feb
6th
2023

Being a Better Writer: Cursed Problems in Story Writing · 9:15pm Feb 6th, 2023

Oct
16th
2023

Being a Better Writer: The Worf Effect · 8:14pm Oct 16th, 2023

Welcome back writers to another installment of Being a Better Writer, where today we have a pretty cool subject to talk about. So I hope you’re ready.

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Jul
6th
2021

Being a Better Writer: Diversifying Your Writing · 8:55pm Jul 6th, 2021

Welcome back readers! Yes, I decided to bump Monday’s usual Being a Better Writer post to Tuesday on account of Monday being the federal holiday in a number of places, including where I was. That, and it was a bit nice to have a break day.

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Jul
19th
2021

Being a Better Writer: Bias and Growth · 9:41pm Jul 19th, 2021

Apr
26th
2021

Being a Better Writer: Building a World From Scratch – Part 3 · 9:42pm Apr 26th, 2021

Feb
13th
2017

V 1.2.12 (6/15/2017) · 4:09am Feb 13th, 2017

RB's Advice in Regards the Production of Horsewords:
Useful Knowledge for New Writers.

This is built out of good advice I've received, good advice I've given, good advice I've seen given to others, and things I've learned in my own writing. I've put this together in the hopes that it will be of some use to somebody out there. Writing is a learning process, after all.

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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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Mar
9th
2020

Being a Better Writer: Keeping it Simple · 9:54pm Mar 9th, 2020

Almost forgot the link! My bad! Here it is!

Alternative title: Don’t Bite Off More than You Can Chew.

Hello readers! Welcome back! How was your weekend? I trust it was enjoyable?

I hope I was able to help with that. Episode two of Fireteam Freelance dropped Saturday morning with a bang! More adventures with Adah, Ursa, Anvil, and Owl!

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Jan
10th
2022

Style Guide: Preliminary 1 · 7:41pm Jan 10th, 2022

Disclaimer

The purpose of this guide is to teach you, the writer, what you should and shouldn’t do to assure the quality of your stories, and to show you how to best communicate with other authors as well as your audience. We, the authors of this guide, understand this will come across as telling you what to do, but that is the point of any style guide or anyone offering advice. There are many ways of creating and viewing storytelling. We are merely providing our viewpoints on it.

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