I'd like you to take a moment and look at a list of all of your characters. Beside each character's name, write either "Good Guy" or "Bad Guy." Now, here's the question: was that task easy for you, or was it difficult? In lots of media, this won't pose much of a challenge; every character is either thoroughly aligned with the heroes or unrepentantly evil. Perhaps your story fell down those same lines; let me assure you that this is perfectly fine. But perhaps you might like to take a moment and

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My dads name is Jim, so thats akward.

Well, it's true. I pretty much only come here to check stories I love, and occasionally binge read new stories. Yeah, lets just say back in fall 2015 I made it into my local college, and since then I've only had winter break and this summer off.

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God, I've been slammed at work. I wish I could pump out stories faster. In the case of Junior Flight Camp, I've had trouble working on it for two reasons, exhaustion from work and writer's block. After Bronycon I got a little depressed, due to romantic issues, loneliness, and the general let down after something as awesome as Bronycon itself. It's harder for me to get into the characters and write what they're thinking in my "method writing" style. This is especially true of Rainbow

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...when I get overly bored, have a bad case of writers' block and begin playing Forza Motorsport 5.

Let me know what you think.

My last blog post was on Halloween?! It's not like I left anyone waiting for a new chapter update on some story I was writing...

If anyone is actually reading this, I'm sorry. I'm working on the next chapter for the Element of Common Sense I just realized about halfway through the original draft that this was going into horribly unrealistic territory and threw the entire chapter out. Now things are looking better.

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Convert dates to Unix time:
$ perl -e 'use Time::Local; $x = timelocal(0,0,0,1,0,2013); print "$x\n"'
1357016400 [Jan 1 2013, in seconds since 1970]
$ perl -e 'use Time::Local; $x = timelocal(0,0,0,1,0,2014); print "$x\n"'
1388552400 [Jan 1 2014]

Number of people who've written since Jan. 1 2013:
sqlite> select count(distinct(uid)) from story where date_modified > 1357016400;
17082
Number of people who've written since Jan 1 2013 and wrote more than one story:

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As a young'n (about age 8 or 9) I used to look up all kinds of stuff on the internet. One thing my aunt never liked me looking up was anything to do with witchcraft or the occult. Naturally I ignored her and continued my research and development of my newfound "hobby" (read calling). As an adult, yes I have strengthened my spiritual bond within myself and beliefs. No. I don't worship Lucifer. I'm a Presbyterian complete. It just so happens that I have embraced both my light and darkness. To

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After a very, very annoying writers block, I have busted out of the shell of stagnation and have come back with vigor unbeknownst to mankind. That is, if nothing gets screwed in my day to day life. Which, since I am very inactive in society, is unlikely to happen, so yeah.

Back to writing about a mercenary who doesn't understand the word "Polite".

So one of my favorite youtubers made a video talking about how to go about getting ideas for stories. I watched it ages ago but thought it might be a really great video to share out in case anyone here has ever struggled with writers block or just having a hard time looking for inspiration.

Green Path For Creativity and Ideas

That's right, you heard me! I have no idea what I'm doing, and I don't care! From this point forward, until I feel ready, I'm going to be writing my tail off working on random one-shots of various genres for no other reason than to clear my head. You guys are free to criticize, and are welcome to tell me if some of them should be continued or not. My first story will be coming around 8:00 or so. After that, it's all up to my idea clock. As always,

Prince out

Hey guys, my name is gmoyes, though GM or G works just as well. I'm a young man from Nova Scotia, Canada who is a massive nerd. I've studied science quite a bit, but never mad it far in post secondary as calculus completely kicked my ass. I've been around Fimfiction for a while now, but I have always been mostly a lurker. I've read a lot of great stories and I figured I might as well break out of my shell and share some of my own ideas and stories.

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I have seen a lot of writers talk about this so called Writer's Block, and it seems to be a very difficult and bothersome tribulation to go through. Nevertheless, I find it to be caused by nothing but unpreparedness.

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Ok, I threatened this on Discord, but here it is (and on my Tumblr). This might now be a one time thing either, but for now I have three books to give away, and all you have to do is pay for postage and the envelope (sent in a Tyvex envelope that costs about 75¢ each), payable after it's on it's way. One book per pony... person. Here's the choices:

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Yeahhh, that Shining Interlude kind of spawned into something more monstrous than I intended. I'm at 8k words at the moment and am still adding more. I'll go into more detail as an author's note with the chapter (whenever it's done) but my main issue is that I forgot that I'm dealing with a younger Shining and he shouldn't be a Captain yet. So in order for me to not retcon that little bit or make Shining a helluva lot older than Twilight, I had to re-structure the entire Royal Guard to fit

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So, I got curious the other day and started digging through site history on here. Why? Well, I can look at stats here on a yearly basis (but not lifetime, for some odd reason) and started wondering about each year’s most popular Being a Better Writerposts. What, I wondered, was the most popular (read: one with the most views) to date?

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I have an interesting case of writers block. Sometimes I write a story and I get some good chapters in.. but I don't know how to continue the story.

That title pretty much says it all. I can't really explain what the thing is, but it's there.

More to the point, it's [link removed because fuck stupid rules].

I don't know whether I'll submit this for the general site, or if I'll just leave it for the curious passersby, maybe put a link to it on my FF-page like I should have done with "Highs And Lows" eight months ago.

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Hey everyone! It's been forever since I been on here or have posted anything. Now getting to why I'm here and what I have to say, is I don't see why I involve myself with or am apart of a website that I don't seem to spend anytime on reading stories or posting any of my own stories for that matter. As much as I would like to get stories on here for others to read, I don't think I have the time and skills to get my stories on here. I feel like I'm wasn't my time trying to get stories on here

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I haven't worked on my stories in a while. I just haven't had the inspiration to get back in. I don't know if it's my location (I usually have a single place where my words seem to flow), my mood or what. I have a lot of ideas mapped out in my head but just can't get them typed out. I've already had to cancel one of my stories, which I hate doing. That does leave one story to do and two new ideas to write if anyone is interested in hearing what they're about. Some new ideas from someone else

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