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Oh readers, it is so good to be back!

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THIS IS THE GREATEST CARTOON CHARACTER I’VE EVER SEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!! She’s like Pinkie Pie mixed with Cozy Glow, but unlike Cozy, the writers like Luan get away with her evil sadism!!!!!! WOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT’S WHAT WE LIKE TO SEE!!!!!!!!!!!

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Welcome back, writers! It’s Monday and you know what that means! It’s time for Being a Better Writer! And we’ve got a pretty fun topic to go over today.

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Welcome readers, to another Monday installment of Being a Better Writer! I hope that you all had a pleasant weekend, and that today’s post kicks off a glorious start to an even better week than the last. Especially where your writing is concerned!

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Pepper Step

Class: Lower-Middle. Wealth: Upper-Middle.
Profession: Spice Broker Residence: Canterlot.
Family: Step. Personal: Pepper. Called: Pepper Step, "Peps"

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All right, everyone. Hope you enjoyed the last post, because it's time to reveal what the big secret is. Lilly and Holly represent masculine and femi... wait, what's that? Georg totally blew my secret and revealed the answer in the last post? ...Oh.

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Normally, I'd just make my own OC's for this story (mostly background characters, tbh), but I like the challenge of writing my friends.

So!

If your OC is:

-A Royal Guard (either Luna's or Celestia's)
-A Medic
-A Weather Pony
-A Good Samaritan (from cities BESIDES Canterlot, variety encouraged, the type to happily carry supplies to a different city)
-A Pony Maybe You Don't Mind Being In Hell, If That's Okay With You

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GENERAL: The Prenches of Neigh Orleans are a relatively old family, born of an Equestrian-Prench Creole marriage during the 14th century YOH. They are outwardly very respectable: but they have their secrets, and a strange attraction for the sea. They have some marital connections with the Neigh Orleans Lulamoons (Trixie's maternal family) but no more recently than around YOH 1400.

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Hello there everybody. Last week's topic was about romance and how you approach it. There are good ways to approach it and bad ways that could hinder your story. But this time around we're approaching a different subject. This topic matter is... a little more necessary, I'd say, to avoid in general. (This also may be me not giving this genre a chance... but there's just nothing creative about it, in my opinion). This could also be a bit controversial, in a slight sense of the word. But other

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Oh, sure, I could use a nice literary term like "cipher," but why not use the most inflammatory term I can think of? Let's talk about bland, faceless characters and how to give them the color and flair they need to be interesting characters.

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In my review of "Look Before You Sleep," I claimed that most of the episode felt pretty same-y. Most of it boils down to a single idea: Applejack is brash and dirty, while Rarity is refined and clean. It just keeps banging on that same idea over and over again. To punctuate the idea, I coined "the dialogue game," where you simply replace whatever a character is saying with a statement of their character trait; in "Look Before You Sleep," that'd be "I'm messy!" and "I'm snooty!" over and over

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Having perhaps a bit too much fun coming up with some of these. Still tweaking the one for Princess Cadance. Something about a guy with a plane for skywriting insisting that she really is an awesome soldier. First person to guess where I got Soarin's bio gets to feel smug about being the first one to guess it.

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A bit of an odd choice for a blog post but to my knowledge this kind of thing has never been done before. We're going to be looking at all the celebrity guest star characters the show has presented to us, all seven of them. And bare in mind, I don't hate any of these characters, it's just that I like some of them more than others. This list, like all my others, is purely the result of my personal opinion. And bare in mind, I'm only counting the celebrity characters from the show. By all

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"Hey, the writer's bored at work again! Lets break the fouth wall, Nick! Non-canonically, of course."
"Sounds like a plan, Arca! If any of you have any questions you want to ask us, or any of the story characters Ashfur writes, please, feel free! He's bored and could use the company."

How's it going everyone.

My brother and I recently did a vlog on our opinions about writing and reading, but one part in particular applies to this very site. That subject regarded fanfictions, more specifically, whether or not original characters should be used.

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