Screenwriters John August and Craig Mazin said something interesting in their ScriptNotes podcast on Follies, Kindles and Second-Act Malaise: Geography symbolizes story. They didn't say it that way, but John said that one of the things that bothered him about the Broadway play Follies was returning to the same stage sets, and that doing so made him feel like the story wasn't progressing. Craig

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My extended family got together over Thanksgiving, and I decided that instead of reading something from a book, I would read my nieces one of my stories. I didn't write any for children, but I thought "Socks" (from Sisters) might work. So six little girls ages four to ten gathered around me, and I read.

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When I write a story too short to post, such as my entry for EqD's "Sombra's backstory in 300 words or less" contest, it becomes another story in Pony Tales. So you're not really watching me unless you favorite Pony Tales! [EDIT: Now "The Twilight Zone"]

This isn't really an emergency. Aquillo posted Equestria's End two and a half hours ago, so it's too late for it to get into the featured box. (This is one of the many reasons the featured-box algorithm sucks so very hard: After the first hour, it takes several hundred views within 6 hours to get into the box, which is possible only if the author has a lot of watchers or the story has one of those titles like

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I had lunch at a Chinese restaurant. My fortune said:

I spent the time prepare the song,
while the song is not being sung.

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AugieDog, author of Half the Day is Night, just published the first (>8000-word) chapter of a new adventure/comedy/romance, In Their Highness' Clandestine Corps, with Blueblood as a capable but insufferable James Bond, Luna as his fearsome boss, and Rainbow Dash as - a Bond girl with a spine and plenty of lip? No, I don't think we can use the words "Bond girl" here. More likely Bluebood will become a

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I'm partly responsible for this - in fact, I see that I'm a group mod now - so I oughta tell you about it. whatmustido created a group for... well, here's what he wrote:

Serious Stories ( <-- link )

Tired of seeing nothing but silly stories everywhere you look? Want to read something that actually challenges you? So do we.

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There are many things that I want to have done, but don't like doing - exercising, cleaning, flirting, to name a few. But I don't think there's anything that I love and hate doing at the same time as much as writing.

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Pony names are mysterious. Is Applejack Applejack Apple? Does Rarity have a second name? Did ponies whose names match their cutie marks change their names when they got them? But what I'm suddenly curious about, what would tell us so much about pony anthropology, is...

Who was named "Cake" first, Mrs. Cake or Mr. Cake?

It used to be that American kids got presents on their birthday and on Christmas, and that was it. Therefore, toy industries made half of the year's sales in December. I don't know if this is still true; it was almost true of the computer game industry 20 years ago. Whatever the fraction is, it's a lot.

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