Almost everything you write where there’s a conflict between two characters can be thought of as a combination of a fight and a dialogue, and those two things are really different ways of describing the same thing. When two characters cross swords, it’s just a way of talking out their differences with action, and when two characters get into a screaming match or a debate, that’s no different from a boxing match.

And there are good and bad ways to write that.

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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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The 36 questions

So I’m studying journalism at the moment, and one thing I’ve come across is a list called the 36 questions. The 36 questions are what I’ve been practicing for interviews, and the history behind them is interesting; they resulted from a study on love, how we fall in love, what causes it and how to maintain it.

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Every now and then I have to remind myself what things I have control over and what I don't.

Things I can control:
I can write stories about whatever ideas I happen to have
I can ask advice about how to make them better
I can decide who I want advice from and who I don't for whatever reason
I can listen to that advice, or I can decide not to listen for whatever reason
I can spend as much or little time on a story as I feel like spending.
I can edit a story whenever I want.

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So, one thing that I would really like to be able to include, but I have no idea just how to do so for the most part, is musical numbers. Not just using songs that I know and just transcribe into the fic, but also something more original. I mean, uplifting musical numbers are just part of life in the source material. I can get away with not doing them, but it also feels kinda sad to have a character whose name literally has the word "sing" in it not take part in the various musical features

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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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It has been a long time since i wrote a book. It being smut and all I am out of my zone here. I want to write books about dating ponies. I hope to get some pointers on here before i start. Like what should i go for? Who should I go for? And how do i balance feels with smut (physical feels)? I want my first story to be my oc and vinyl scratch. Please give me luck and advice.

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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For the non-self-demonstrating version, go here.

Footnotes*! To do them right, enclose (2) the number (c), and use exactly the same format in-text and at the footnote (4). Asterisks are right out*****.

*These things right here.

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Gods aren't all, all-knowing/ all-powerful beings, in both myths and modern fiction there's a scale of godly power and I will show my interpretation of this scale here for anyone to use for reference.

The Power Gods:

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We all know that would be a bald-faced lie.

Still, there's decent advice in this vid if anyone ever wanted to try their hand at writing for a visual medium.

Sequels are ways for authors to continue their story in a new light, giving the story new conflicts and characters and change the theme that the original story had. It's a way for us to continue something that we thought complete, or a way to adapt the story with current capabilities and writing techniques that we may have learned. It's also a way to give fans of those stories more of what they love.

Yet, sequels are not so easy to write.

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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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Hello, everyone!

I hope everyone liked the latest chapter~ This blog post is not one to advertise my latest and newest writing, even though that is usually what I do and you really should check them out

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TThe New King

• MLP: FiM
• Adventure
• Sad
• Tragedy

After a tragic accident happens, Spike has to be the new ruler of Equestria

• Death
• Alt. Universe
• Spike
• CMCs
• Sunset Shimmer
• Starswirl
• Flurry Heart

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I'm planning on rewriting this story. What are some criticisms you guys have that will help me improve?

Every writer has that feeling of wanting to make the story of their dreams. Or at least a story they know people would love. So you sit down, and start typing away the amazing title that will advertise your work with intriguing words. Then you write down the descriptions, and click on all of those pony photos at the end, finally hitting the save option. You bring yourself to your story's page, creating a chapter, and of course begin writing. This is of course is where you encounter the

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This extension of my Cumulative Advice for New Writers Blog helps distinguish and disambiguate three frequently used terms: Pre-Reader, Proof-Reader, and Editor. The goal of which is to help identify what each term means (through reference), so that when a writer is seeking help they know exactly what kind of help they need, based on the kind of work they want help doing. Or, alternatively, the kind of help they can

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Back in ancient times when dinosaurs roamed the land (last June), I made a blog post meant to be a rant. That post unexpectedly ended up turning into a rather bizarre writing advice blog:
Outside of a formal literary setting, WRITE HOWEVER YOU WANT.

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A continuation of my Cumulative Advice blog. This session we tackle not only what makes a story, but also why.

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