[Summary: More rapid POV switches indicate the characters are closer together.]

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I know nothing about pacing. I’m not even convinced that it’s a thing. If I’m reading a story and get bored, I don’t say the pacing is slow. I say it’s boring. That tells you more ways and more specific ways to fix it. If a story has two breathless action scenes in a row in a way that doesn’t work for me, like the opening to End of Ponies, I don’t say the pacing is too fast; I look for something that's missing.

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11. Males are useless

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[Summary: Think of each line of your story as being like a movement made by a man leading a woman in a dance. The lead must be congruent to what has come before, yet not predictable. It must be strong enough to be followed, yet not obvious. And you must eliminate extraneous movements that could be mistaken for leads.]

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My last post makes me sound like an asshole, doesn't it?

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I pitched "The 8 Creepiest Things About My Little Pony" to Cracked.com. Found out 3 other people pitched the same idea in the same week. The editorial staff said that My Little Pony isn't popular enough to merit an entire article.

They must be on a different Internet than me. Google says:

"Star wars" (1977): About 163,000,000 results
"Harry Potter" (1997): About 132,000,000 results
"Star Trek" (1966): About 93,100,000 results
"Lord of the Rings" (1954): About 72,900,000 results

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The text analyzer at I Write Like says I write like:

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[Summary: Substantive works of fiction are "the only places where there was some civic, public hope of coming to grips with the ethical, philosophical, and sociopolitical dimensions of life that were elsewhere treated so simplistically".]

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You think our featured box is bad? 10 out of the 15 novels on the New York Times fiction hardcover bestseller list right now are thrillers/mysteries about grisly homicides/cults/terrorist plots.