I released a new story recently for the Most Delightful Ponidox Contest, Time Enough, and here are some of my thoughts on it. This post contains spoilers, so go read the story first. But maybe don't read the comments.

First though, I have to kick the elephant in the room.

Abuse in the comments

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We had a fantastic set of stories entered into The Season 10 Bingo Writing Contest. It's not easy to come up with a story that ties together five randomly-selected ideas in a way that makes sense, AND make it a good story, so bravo to all the authors who managed it. You made our job as judges really hard.

So without further ado...

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Business Bloke will have a pretty good life. He'll live and work in the city, which is cool, because that's where all the excitement is. His apartment will be small and expensive, and the kitchen won't be well stocked, but that won't matter. He'll be too busy working to cook most days, so he'll eat takeout a lot. The city will be full of great places to eat.

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Just to let the various contestants and interested parties know, the judges in the Season 10 Bingo Writing Contest have been making progress. There were a lot of stories entered, and each one needed to be given a fair chance. And it's required some difficult decisions, because quite a few of these stories are worth

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The Season 10 Bingo Writing Contest is over and judging is underway, but while that happens, who'd like one of the leftover random prompt cards?

Here's the one I drew myself:

If you'd like one, just comment below!

Current events have made life complicated for everyone right now. In light of that, I've decided to give writers in the Season 10 Bingo Writing Contest an extra week to finish their stories.

That's it, the doors have closed on the Season 10 Bingo Writing Contest. If you have a story that was almost ready in time, PM me. Otherwise, new arrivals can be added to the late entries folder.

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Contestants for the Season10 Bingo Writing Contest, this is your last day! You have just a few hours to publish your story and add it to this folder.

If your story isn't quite finished, you only need to get the first chapter out. There's another three weeks after that in which you can finish it.

This is an update to my post On the event of your death. I just want to say something I've learned from painful experience.

Being an executor is a stressful, thankless task that just sucks the life out of people.

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If you're writing a story for the Season 10 Bingo Writing Contest, you have one week to publish your first chapter on Fimfiction and add the story to the contest folder.

Judges needed

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