11/26/22 - Despite concentrating on The Last Nightguard over the last few months, I have been making progress on some of the other pending projects in process. There are two finished chapters in Bridge Troll, one of Sweetie Belle - Hogwarts Exchange Student, and

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Hello folks,

The topic for this post has been on my mind for a little while, and as I've been discussing and re-reading some older manuscripts I thought I'd go ahead and get out some thoughts on it.

There are several reasons to cut material from a story. Perhaps you changed your mind on where it's going, and something you wrote no longer fits. Perhaps what you wrote wasn't very good, and you just want to get rid of it.

Those cuts are usually easy to make.

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I use the expression in the title (or variants of it) fairly regularly, but I wanted to expand upon the concept a little more in this blog post, mostly so I have something to link to in the future.

"Write Good, Don't Write Bad" is a simple five word phrase. I won't claim to have coined it or the concept, but I think it's one of the more important lessons a novice writer can learn.

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A user asked on a thread how exactly you get better at writing clopfics, and I thought that considering my whole two weeks of experience, I'd be well suited to answer. My unabridged response can be found below. Apologies in advance, it was typed on mobile.

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