Does anyone think writing cliches and not caring sometimes is quite fun when making HIE stories? I find myself not caring a lot of the time. I am not trying to write some epic story like LOTR, just comedy smut. I found writing shameless, cheesy HIE fun. It's not a realistic scenario, sure, but fun.

Take my story Super Secret Petting as a perfect example of a trashy HIE story. Little to no build up to the romance. Just plain smut really.

The human always seems to be:
A very edgy person where the tiniest thing will set him off.
The human always acts like they can do whatever they want without any consequences.
The human sounds like a rebellious teenage trying to fit into high school freshman.
He loves to use vulgar language to make him sound cool.
He is always being given the "VIP" treatment from the Princess.

This blog post will be more than a little bit ranting, so please be advised. If you're a big HiE ("Human in Equestria") fan, you might want to skip this. Not that I have terribly many followers right now who might read it anyway, but what the heck, I feel the need to rant to get my creative juices flowing today. Here goes...

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The most recent part of When They Come is easily the most disappointing for me. The big reveal, the shocking revelation...is nowadays so fucking boring and overused. Super. Super. Disappointing.

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Sometimes I find a piece of fanfiction where an author introduces a new factor to an existing setting. For example, a new element of harmony. Then this new factors change the chain of events. But often authors prefer to stick to known events too much, even when the new factors can prevent some canon events from happening and create brand new events instead. So to stick to canon events new characters suddenly become dumb, lose powers and can't do anything. What a shame.

Two new factors:

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Yesterday, I listened to a preaching from an LGBTQ+-affirming church via Facebook livestream. One of the things that the pastor said is something that I agree with. That there are Evangelical theological bullshit statements that one shouldn't say to those who are in pain and suffering.

Those statements include:
"God has a plan"
"God has a reason"
"God is in control"
"It is God's doing"
"It is a sign from God"
"God is punishing you"

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HEY GANG, WHATTUP!

So...clopfics.

Hey, HEY! *stands at the door, holding a shotgun* Nobody's leaving yet! Y'all sit your asses back down! You saw the title and still came here, now you're in it for the long haul and have nobody to blame but yourself!

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Today, I’d like to present a new (possibly recurring) blog series. I was reading a college's literary magazine today. While most of the entries were aggressively mediocre, one particular phrase in one particular story stuck out to me. "I could still make out the tear stains on my mom's letter pages." What better catalyst for discussion than a cliché?

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And the Tree's back.

I told you it'd be back at the end of this episode. I know hack kiddie show writing, and I know the direction it ALWAYS goes. They CANNOT permit tension to last for long. The writers of the show are incapable of telling any type of more sweeping dramatic arc. That's all there is to it.

They should have just quit with the Big Bads, since they just keep handling them more poorly with every passing season, and stuck to slice of life world-building.

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Hey momlestia fans, there is no update for tonight. Last week-and-a-half have been a bit rough on me and I didn't make any progress on the story. In addition to that, I'll be visiting family abroad soon and I won't have an update for about a month.

C'est la vie.

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Out of the cliches, my absolutely least-favorite cliches and one of my personal pet peeve would be Damsel in Distress.

The reason why I’m not big fan of that cliche is because all they do is get themselves kidnapped by a bad guy so in order to make hero look good.

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In today's writing decisions, evidently what this equestrian space program needs is a hard-drinking chemical engineer from Glorious People's Sovyet of Stalliongrad.

'Cause you can't go to space without appropriate accents and excessively dangerous liquid fuel, now can you?

Something you’ll often hear when picking up reviews or word-of-mouth for new books that happen to be particularly praiseworthy is that something is “fresh” or “clever.” Maybe that it “does something new with the genre” or that it’s managed to put a “new twist on old ideas.”

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Welcome back readers, to the final entry in Being a Better Writer‘s Summer of Cliche Writing Advice!

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I'm currently trying to come up with a loose plot for an utterly OP, completely insane and evil Twilight story where she gets found torturing and killing her friends, and barely escaping Celestia and Luna with her life, goes around finding items of great power. Not limited to solely items of Dark Magic either. Mastering every type and branch of magic, she comes back with an army of skeletons, Griffons, and Dragons, big fight scene, a "happy" ending where she wins and, being immortal, will

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Extrapolations of the early Greek feel of aspects of pegasi culture aside, this is another thing I promise faithfully not to write...

...however convenient it might be to kick cloudwalking-spell-using emissaries off the edge of your sky city, if you're Commander Hurricane.

Ahem. And-a-one, and-a-two, and-a-three...

"Writers can express their muse,
On FiM-Fic-tion."

"OCs, tropes, and Mary Sues,
Sick a-dic-tion!"

"Might leave a 'like'; wait,
That's story's cliche!"

"Horestales! Woo-oo!"

"Tales like Daring Do? Nah!
It's Horsetales! Woo-oo!"

"Every day, we're in here making horsetales! Woo-oo!"
"Tales like Daring-Do, bad and good horsetales! Woo-oo!"

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Rating Scale:

12/10—a complete masterpiece; flawless and outstanding
11/10—Excellent, near-perfect film
10/10—the standard rating; awesome film with a couple of flaws
9/10—a wonderful film with several flaws

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Today, I’d like to discuss a cliché that is very common in children’s media, and actually shows up in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic a few times. The irony is that, even as a child, I recognized and disliked this particular cliché. In particular, I remember it from both Dragonball Z and Digimon Frontier, among others. Captain Planet even built its entire premise around this cliché (well, that and being preachy, but let’s not get sidetracked).

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Today's discussion is about a very old cliche. It is so ubiquitous that I'm many of you have encountered it in multiple places before. Just because it is commonplace, however, doesn't mean that we can't examine it and try to do better.

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