I just listened to Lecture 12, "Structuring a narrative without a plot", from the Teaching Company series Writing Great Fiction by James Hynes.  (I don't recommend the series, as it's bloated; Hynes takes a long time getting to his point and then belaboring it, and it's often a trivial or obvious point.)

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All of the below, and some backups of my FiM stories, are here, under the username "Ditherer".

Care Root's Bizarre Adventure

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This is some next level fanfic:

(Mayfair. The Newspaper-Boy holds a copy of the late edition, ink smudging onto his fingertips. Passers-by slow as they read the splashed headline.)

THE NEWSPAPER-BOY: Extra! Extra! The hairy-handed gent who ran amuck in Kent has lately been overheard in Mayfair! Extra Extra!

A PASSERBY: (admonishingly) Yeh bett’r stay away fr’m h’m. He’ll rip yer lungs out.

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What's this? A blog post? Couldn't be, not from me.

Anyway, to justify this out-of-character move a little more, I had a few words to say on Alicorn Ascentionism (and the Plotholes therein), and a few comments I wanted to respond to in a more substantial way, so hey, here we are! Let's get to it.

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Happy Earth Day, my friends.

This is your top-of-the-line film, TV show, and episode reporter here with another review.

Today, to celebrate this momentous occasion, I'm gonna give you guys my take of Blue Sky Studios's "Epic".

Here's the rundown of this tale:

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