Hello, all.

I mentioned in the preview for The Baltimare Affair that I was also working on a murder mystery project. I meant to post the preview last week, but time got away from me, so it's here today.

Fair warning: this is not an especially happy excerpt.

For most ponies, the mere thought of committing murder never crosses their minds. Sure, they might occasionally crack a joke about wanting to kill somepony, but it doesn’t rise beyond that. 
 

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Hello, folks.

Just wanted to share a little teaser of The Baltimare Affair, the full-length sequel to my previous short The Manehattan Sanction, a MLP/James Bond pastiche.

This will be in either the first or second chapter.

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A few days late this time, for which I apologize - I've been rather occupied this past week.

A quick note at the start: An audio reading by Rainbow Infinity of Let Me In, Twilight Sparkle is available at this link. Give it a listen!

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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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Hello, folks. Time for another update, starting with a brief bit of news, and then a recap of June.

Barring any unforeseen disaster, I will be attending Everfree Northwest in August. I'll have my username here on my con badge, so if you happen to spot someone with that name, yes, it's me. Feel free to say hello if you want! I promise, if I look upset, I'm not, I just tend to zone out if I'm thinking about something (usually writing, if I'm honest).

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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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Going to restructure these updates a bit, as posting a list with "Not a lot of changes" isn't especially helpful, I feel. And I often work on things when I have a good idea for them, not just because they're on a list.

So, a review of April:

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Hello folks,

Shorter update this month, largely a rehash of last months update.

Published in March:

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Hey, folks,

Just wanted to make a post to spotlight this excellent story that was recently published. If you're a fan of Badass Celestia, Conan the Barbarian, pulp novels, or just enjoy good writing, I highly recommend you give it a read!

TThe Tower of the Fallen Star

• MLP: FiM
• Adventure

Before she was a princess, Celestia was a barbarian wandering the world in search of adventure and glory. In the Tower she found that and more.

• Sex
• Gore
• Violence
• Death
• Celestia
• Luna
• OC

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Hello, folks.

Just thought I'd kick out a short blog post to give some updates on future projects. My slate is not endless, but there are several things underway.

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