Probably should have mentioned this is Thursday's post, but the Pleasant Commentator and Review Group has finally emptied out it's submission folder and will be opening its submission folder from 12–12.30 midday today (CST, which is GMT +5) and 12–12.30 midnight tonight. That should give most people a window to submit something they want a review on. One submission per author – across both windows, not

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Okay, so, it seems I have really screwed up my foot this time, and after dragging my sorry ass down to the Jobcentre this morning like I was re-enacting a crippled Battlemech, my foot has now swelled up so much that I couldn't get it back on one of my shoes if I tried. I literally can't concentrate on anything right now, so I'd just suspended any pretence at useful work. Luckily, I have also just discovered that I can buy co-codamol over the counter; there is some chance this might save

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Conflict of Interest: Narrative Mood

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Conflict of Interest: Agency

I was thinking that I really needed to talk about this now, but as I considered what was worth saying about it, I realised just how much of a clever – and insufferably smug – bastard I am.

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An interesting discussion brewed up over on Bookplayer’s blog. Bookplayer is of the position that last weekend’s episode fundamentally changed Diamond Tiara’s character, while my position is that it is a natural continuation of it and that the character hasn’t changed beyond reacting to circumstance.

Bookplayer asked for specific things in canon that show this, so I’m going to an inquisition on Diamond Tiara as she appeared in season 1 episode 12: Call of the Cutie.

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Conflict of Interest: Abstracting Conflicts

Like all things in writing, there’s knowing the rule, understanding the rule, then knowing when to throw it straight out of the window. As such, I want to focus on when most of what I’ve said about narrative conflict can take a long walk of the proverbial short pier.

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Conflict of Interest: Interlude

Just a quick drive-by post as I’ve been out all day today:

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Conflict of Interest: Controlling Intensity

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Conflict of Interest: One Portion of Conflict, Please!

Time for a topic shift. I have a plan for a long-form post on Friday, so I’m going to try and cover all the groundwork before that’s ready to be published. The first thing I need to do is talk about what makes a conflict, and just how much can the concept be broken down to its simplest form.

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Sentence Sophistication: Chicken vs Egg

Knowing how to write good prose is one thing, but sometimes it is just as important to make sure that barriers to good prose aren’t of our own making.

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