The description and title are some of the most important parts of a story. They provide readers with their first impression, convince them to read it, and characterize your story even after it is finished.

Today, we look at a set of stories, based solely on their descriptions, titles, and other relevant paratext.

The Alicorn Curse by chillbook1
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Taking a page from Bad Horse's last few blog entries, I thought I'd chip in a little bit.

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In the past, I’ve advocated learning from cinema, trying to use and translate the same techniques into prose. I use terms like “blocking” and “off-screen” to refer to things in prose.

Today, however, I’d like to discuss one of the major differences between visual media and prose. It also happens to be one of prose fiction's greatest weaknesses: scenes and stories with a large number of characters.

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Title: Bitter-Sweetie
Author: Inquisitor M

Found via: Requested review

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Title: Palimpsest
Author: NorrisThePony

Found via: the featured box

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Title: So You've Just Slept With Your Best Friend
Author: Nyronus

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Today’s story relies on not one, but two twists. Since the first twist is incredibly blunt, I have not bothered to spoiler-tag it.

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I don’t like catering to holidays, but here’s a review for Halloween anyway. Any time is a good time to review Dark fic.

Title: Just A Simple Story

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Welcome back readers, to another entry in Being a Better Writer! Where we are still locked in the Summer of Cliche Writing Advice! That’s right, it isn’t over yet!

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Hello readers on this wonderful, sunny (if your weather is like it is here) Monday morning! I’m here to alleviate your Monday blues with this week’s Being a Better Writer! Which, you may notice, is still in the grips of our summer special, the Summer of Cliche Writing Advice! Week seven of the feature, no less!

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I see a whole lot of new and aspiring fanfiction writers all the time, and they almost always start not knowing the basic rules of storytelling or how hard it is in reality to create a believable story. Well, as believable as you can get in fiction. From all I've seen in my time here, I can fairly say that the limits for that go way beyond the sane prospects of logic.

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I go into every story hoping for something that will be worth commenting on. Unfortunately, not everything warrants prolonged critiquing. This is especially true of fanfiction, where many writers are still learning and improving. Here is a selection of reviews/critiques, in two sentences or less. All of these stories were found via the featured or popular boxes. Unlinked stories are rated M and are extremely NSFW: they may be found via the author links.

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I go into every story hoping for something that will be worth commenting at (great) length on. Unfortunately, not everything warrants prolonged critiquing. Here is a selection of reviews/critiques, in two sentences or less.

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