Hey! I'm going to show you how I write!

Step one: I write the main events and dialog. I make the main event the longest out of all the events. You can see the difference clearly.
Step two: I go to the beginning of the chapter, and I keep expanding on what I wrote.
Step three: Repeat step two.
Step four: Repeat step three.

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Watch the Duck Song with no sound. Imagine a dark prison as the surroundings. The duck is wanting the keys for a jailbreak from the prison guard, always behind his desk, and they eventually escape together. How does this song seem to you now?

So I've been here a while, and though I may not be the best, I've learned at least a little, which is what I'm hoping to share with you today. More specifically I hope to help new writers who may struggle with writing existing characters in the franchise, namely the mane six. (Just fyi this is generally pretty free form so this blog will have tons of grammer and spelling errors, please ignore those. This is also not by any means extensive and are mainly just a collection of thoughts on the

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How to Hug a Five-Hundred-Foot Tall Dragon now has a continuation! How Spike Kinda Sorta Maybe Married a Changeling continues my trend of obnoxiously-long titles, and will explore what the hay happened to get Spike and Chryssy hitched! But first, Celestia gets excited about cake.

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SO.

It's been a long day-- nothing insurmountable, and nothing a fancy beer and some exploding things in Star Fox can't fix. But with that done, I find myself sitting in front of my computer, with the vague desire to write ... uh, something. But I'm still a bit brain-fried from my day job (plus, I've already gotten a little bit of original writing for the day) so, uh ... ponies, right?

Or, perhaps more pretentious, writing about writing about ponies. Ponies being funny.

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Step 1: Drink beers.

Step 2: Watch this music video

Step 3 (ADVANCED CLASS): Snag SHOUT! Factory's Blu-Ray release of Streets of Fire for further research.

Just want to know how everyone is Doing!

Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren was quick to recognise the Bromley Contingent's aesthetic potential. These were arrogant youths, stylish, brash and sexually extrovert. Siouxsie herself would attend Pistols shows in a cut-out bra exposing her tits, staged her own "Sex Olympics" at a debauched house party and took gay friend "Berlin" to the pub on a leash. She was kicked out for requesting "a bowl of water for my dog". More contentious still, at a time when NF membership was on the increase, the

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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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Last time, I went over the various 'levels' of comedy-- now, I'm gonna get into the specifics-- namely, tools, principles, and building blocks you can use when writing your own comedies. This is by no means a comprehensive list, but hopefully it'll be helpful, one way or another. So without further ado, let's get started!

Punch Up, don't Punch Down.

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Welcome to week three of this five week series. Revising is the topic of discussion for this week's post. You can visit the previous week by clicking here.

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Simple question: how is everyone/everypony doing?

After riding the high of the last three completed chapters being big ones for my story and such been feeling pretty good about things. So just wanted to ask how you all were.

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Yep, that is it.

HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS

HOW

HOW THE FU-

(If any of you wants to make your own monster (Kaiju), then this is how you can be making them.)

Name: [insert name]

Wingspan: [insert wingspan]

Length: [insert length]

Weight: [insert weight]

Appearance: [insert appearance]

(If you don't know how to make a monster, take your time to create it.)

Truth surrounds us constantly. We can hear it as easily from the unlettered man in poverty as from the educated man of academia (in fact, sometimes I feel like you're more likely to find truth in the simple than in the learned). The trick is to listen for truth at all times and to treasure it deeply when it is found.

Today's truth was shared with me by a man who is not a writer and has never displayed to me any desire to be a storyteller in any respect:

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Welcome to week four of this five week series. Editing is this weeks topic. You can also visit last weeks post by clicking here.

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Welcome to week one of my five week how-to for April. In this five part series I will be going over how I come up with ideas, how I write them, and how I edit them into a finished product. Pictures, examples, and personal touches included!

This week is all about coming up with the initial idea. Everyone wants to make a good article, essay, or narrative, but if you don't know where to start it can drain your inspiration rapidly.

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Does anyone know of any "how-to-draw"s for Iron Will? I'm working on character designs.

If you've been here long enough, you'll know of my How to Catch Series. In said series, I use an OC named Dom the Human and Rainbow Dash. Together, they prank and 'catch' their friends, either literally or in the sense they catch them so off guard their brains short circuit...figuratively speaking.

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I meant to post this last night (early this morning), but apparently I was somewhat incoherent so I forgot to hit the 'post' button. Woops. BUT NOW HERE IT IS.

"Oh Tumbleweed!" you cry. "Tell us how to Write Starlight Glimmer even though you've only used her in like one story but that doesn't matter because you're the best at pony stories so any bits of wisdom you can pass along will be super useful!"

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