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Oct
17th
2019

Humbly asking if you wouldn't mind... · 4:23pm Oct 17th, 2019

Hi Folks!

[Unpublished stories cannot be embedded]

Hope you don't mind me quickly sharing with you that the next chapter of "Fallout: Equestria's Scoundrels" is ready to read now!

Molasses Candy is in danger, and Crow must save her. Will she get to her in time...?

All good things,
Scar

Jun
22nd
2015

Being a Better Writer: Coming At Things Anew - Beating "Writer's Block" · 9:16pm Jun 22nd, 2015

So, I learned something new this weekend. It turns out, if you overdo your carpal tunnel preventative exercises, you will prevent carpal tunnel ... but you can also give yourself tendinitis.

Whoops.

Yeah, so my right arm is nice and comfy in an ace bandage while I type this. It shouldn't get in the way of my writing too much, but let my tale be a cautionary one: you can be too preventative of carpal tunnel, apparently.

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Feb
7th
2017

Being a Better Writer: Don't Neglect Your Backdrop · 5:51pm Feb 7th, 2017

Apologies for the delay. My other job scheduled me for several Mondays in a row, and I wasn’t able to get this post done well enough in advance to make the release date. Next week’s post should be done more in advance, however.

There was a post I made here, once, where I brought up the “painted on backdrop.”

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Aug
9th
2016

Being a Better Writer: Character Relations · 3:24pm Aug 9th, 2016

With a title like that, I’m sure some of you thought that this was going to be about relationships. Maybe even romance, or even something steamier.

Yeah, no. Sorry. And for that last one, don’t get your hopes up. That’s not what I write (and yet people keep requesting it …).

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Jun
20th
2016

Being a Better Writer: Author Morals and Story Theme · 8:52pm Jun 20th, 2016

So, right now, I think I may be able to guess what many of you are thinking, which is, upon looking at the title: Hey, didn’t we just read this like a week or two ago? To which I say, yes, almost.

For those of you who weren’t yet thinking, but now have looked up and noticed the similarities in the title, yes, it’s almost the same topic. In fact, there’s only a single word of difference.

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Apr
26th
2016

Being a Better Writer: Mysteries · 9:37pm Apr 26th, 2016

I think it was inevitable that this post was going to happen sooner or later.

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Jul
11th
2017

Being a Better Writer: Showing Character and Setting with Small Details · 5:15pm Jul 11th, 2017

This is a copy/paste of this week's BaBW post, which is available at my website!

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Aug
14th
2017

Being a Better Writer: Tragedy and Hubris · 9:56pm Aug 14th, 2017

"All the honors go to the tragedian for chewing up the scenery, while the comedian, who has to be much more subtle to be funny, is just loudly criticized when he doesn’t come through."
Attributed to Edmund Gwenn

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Sep
4th
2017

Being a Better Writer: Imitation ... or Copying? · 5:18pm Sep 4th, 2017

This'll be a short one today, guys. I'm actually still sick, but I really feel bad about missing last week's post (in truth, my whole week went by in a blur of "ack, bleck, cough cough cough, can't think, play Sonic Mania/X-Com 2). So you're getting a post today. Not the one I'd planned (my brain's not quite functional enough for the more in-depth companion piece

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Oct
2nd
2017

Being a Better Writer: Writing for Yourself · 9:45pm Oct 2nd, 2017

Short one today, readers. Mostly because I’m writing this between conference sessions on a Saturday, as I’ve got work shifts Monday and Tuesday, among other things, and so it’s literally a case of “Blitz this while I can!”

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Dec
13th
2017

Being a Better Writer: Acknowledging Our Accomplishments · 11:30pm Dec 13th, 2017

Welcome and Merry Christmas, readers, to this quite delayed Being a Better Writer post! First of all, it must be said, I'm sorry for the delays. I try to avoid letting these happen, but with the Christmas rush being what it has been ... I'm fighting to get a lot of things done.

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Jul
20th
2017

Classic Being a Better Writer: Romance and Gender · 8:12pm Jul 20th, 2017

Completely unexpected, by this point, but this post is a mirror of one found on my site!

It. Is. Time …

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May
21st
2018

Being a Better Writer: Currency · 7:49pm May 21st, 2018

Welcome to Monday, readers! And to another installment of Being a Better Writer! Where today, we’re going to talk about something worldbuilding related: Money!

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Sep
10th
2018

Being a Better Writer: Haters · 6:55pm Sep 10th, 2018

The moment you create something worthwhile, someone out there in the world will start to hate you. I wish this wasn’t the truth. I wish I could say that people were always going to be rational and capable of thought, but that’s not how it is.

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Oct
1st
2018

Being a Better Writer: Imagery and Metaphor · 8:01pm Oct 1st, 2018

Reaching the end of Topic List XI folks! Only a few more to go! But before we go diving into today’s Being a Better Writer post, a few bits of news to take care of.

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Aug
3rd
2019

Existing is kind of nice, really. · 1:56am Aug 3rd, 2019

So i realize that my next blog post was supposed to be about wednesday and my hilarious bronycon hijinx. You'll probably still be getting those, don't worry - I have at least part of it typed out. But, since I'm in a rather emotional mood, I figured that I'd interject with something rather different first.

Note that "emotional" doesn't mean "bad emotional," because it isn't. Quite the contrary.

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Dec
11th
2023

Emergency Update and Classic Being a Better Writer: Is It Original or Copying · 8:20pm Dec 11th, 2023

Hey everyone. Apologies for the lateness of this post, but … Well, by now you probably know what’s going on at my end of things. I’ll have a dedicated post on things later this week, but for now, if you’re truly in the dark, there’s a brief summary complete with links in the lead-in to last week’s post.

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Apr
11th
2021

Should I shell out $38 for an ebay listing on a floppy drive with no controller board? · 8:12pm Apr 11th, 2021

This summer's gonna be the first time in almost four years where I don't have some form or another of summer classes taking up most of the day, and I'm itching to work on several big projects, which I hope I can also post onto youtube as progress/walkthrough videos.

Only issue I see is that I don't have a job and I finally got my one and only stimulus check. I don't wanna spend too much, and my overly-frugal brain doesn't like prices above $15 on anything lol.

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Nov
23rd
2015

Being a Better Writer: Names · 5:44pm Nov 23rd, 2015

Bit of a shorter post today, as it's Thanksgiving week here in the US and I'm trying to set myself up for a trip to visit the relatives. With that in mind, no time to socialize: let's dive right into it!

So, naming things. This is, as you might guess, a requested topic. And to be honest, I think it's one worth talking about.

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Sep
14th
2015

Being a Better Writer: Creative? Or Copy? · 9:31pm Sep 14th, 2015

So a few months ago I picked up a fantasy book from the library. Pretty good book, actually; it kept me gripped well enough and had me staying up into the early hours of the morning to see how it panned out. But there was something interesting about it that I felt applied to today's topic.

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