Well, I promised that I'd do this eventually. I've recently had a lot of people follow me that are new to this site, and I figured that this blog could serve as an reference for them to go back to. I've ordered the difficulty of story genres to write based on subjective opinion and personal experience. Note that some genres will be easier to write for some people than others, and to practice on what feels the most natural to you and what you feel comfortable with.

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Trying something new here today. It used to be, back when I was transferring over posts from my old blog to this site, that Thursday or Friday would be home to a Blast from the Past post—essentially an excuse to go back to one of the old Being a Better Writer posts that wasn't on Unusual Things yet and transfer it over (albeit with a little editing). Those posts ran for a little over year, if memory serves, but inevitably had to stop, as I caught up with the present day.

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Welcome back to another classic Being a Better Writer post!

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A/N: This is from an earlier time in my alternate history when Equestria was at war with other nations. 'Person' was a word widely used, and Luna was never happy with it having fallen out of favor.

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I've ended my schooling for the moment and have a bit of freetime whilst I look for a job. While I forge the next piece of the Observations Universe, I've decided to alter the Diamond Dog's Guide To Engineering a bit. Taking some suggestions from my readers, the timeskip can now be considered a bonus chapter, or at least as a 'not as abrupt' ending to a story that so many readers have enjoyed.

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Picture this, if you will, for a moment. Imagine a young man, an author. Well, a writer who has just recently become an author, having successfully published his first book. He's just been invited to a big convention, where to his excitement, he will be on a panel alongside some of fantasy's greats in writing (if I'm being sparse on details here, forgive me as I don't remember all of them).

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Extra Credits is a great Youtube series. In fact, at one point, they were even featured on my Links page. I tend to rotate things there from time to time, and maybe I should be giving them another go.

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Welcome back to another Classic Being a Better Writer post! For those of you who are unfamiliar with these posts, they're essentially recall posts that look back on old BaBW posts and link to them for those newcomers who may have never seen them when they originated. BaBW has a pretty big backlog of articles, and with me having a goal of adding 4000+ words daily to my current book project (Jungle at the moment), Classic throwback posts can be a good way to

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EDIT: Really quick: If you're in the Hunter/Hunted as-posted Alpha, it's up to three or four chapters now! Remember to check often!

Welcome back readers!

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It's time for another Classic Being a Better Writer post!

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Hopefully this will be a short one. After the longer-than-average posts the last few weeks, I’d like to get a quicker, shorter Being a Better Writer post in so I can jump back to closing up Jungle once and for all!

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Welcome back readers! Ready for more Being a Better Writer? I am! And with one of the more requested topics of the last few months. But first ...

That's right, it's time for the news. Two things to discuss, snap-quick, and then we'll be on to the post.

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Welcome back readers! And welcome to the year 2019! Which, as we all know, is either infested with replicants or about to become the battleground once again between that blue robot known as Megaman and his nemisis, Dr. Wily.

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Greetings from Bellevue! For anyone reading this, attending Everfree Northwest this year, and who wants to maximize their me-related activities there (for whatever reason you may have) here's where you can be sure to see me:

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You're not going to believe me. Nop- Nobody in their right mind could possibly believe me, but it's true. Twenty years ago today at 8:15 AM everybody on earth disappeared in an instant and were not seen again, you and me included. Minutes later, a small pocketful of people returned exactly where they disappeared in alien bodies. They had no idea what had happened other than they were the only people around where they were. Which few they encountered were total strangers. As hours and

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Today's Being a Better Writer post is ... available at Unusual Things for the time being due to internet access limitations on my end. It's the best I can offer at the moment.

So click that link and give it a read! This week's topic is a good one!

Welcome to week two of this five week series. This week is all about drafting, the beginning process for creating your story. You can visit the previous week by clicking here.

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Hello again, readers, to another Monday! I hope yours looks a bit better than mine, at least outside your windows. We're catching the tail-end of a winter storm here, and so the world outside looks a grey smear of clouds with a slow trickle of rain. At least, what I'd consider a slow trickle of rain. It's a bit more for most here considering the desert environment.

I'm not griping. It just looks depressingly grey outside.

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Message. Message is an area of much controversy these days, especially in fiction. There are numerous groups with their own ideas of what "the message" of all fiction should be, all arguing and fighting with one another, not a few of them acting like spoiled, entitled children.

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