This is my first time using the 'tagged story' update, so we'll see how it goes. If you're not following me and are wondering why this blog post appeared in your feed, it's because you favorited The Wind Thief. But before we get to talking about The Wind Thief's sequel, I wanted to talk a bit about the craft of writing.

If you care more about reading than writing, you can skip this part.

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Equestria Daily prereader Amacita just posted an interview on one of my favorite stories, The Wind Thief, over on his blog. Check it out here!

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It's that time of year: Eggnog is back in stores! Oh, and unquiet spirits are risen to haunt the darkening world.

The eggnog is all mine, but to celebrate Halloween, have a new story!

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I've been fortunate over the past year or so to have people in the fandom willing to record dramatic readings of some of my stories. Some have been good -- a few are excellent, and remain in my Youtube favorites list.

But today I got this:

Lost Cities, Chapter 1, as read by Illya Leonov

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Chances are, most people of the generation reading this blog have never read a novel by Elmore Leonard, who died today at the age of 87. You're probably familiar with his work from the movies and television series based upon them, though: Get Shorty, or the FX series "Justified."

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I always feel guilty posting short blog posts. I mean, if I'm going to annoy everyone with one of those little feed update things, it ought to be worth reading, right?

Anyway, in that vein, please accept these three offerings!

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Yes, the next chapter of Salvation is coming! This chapter is taking longer than expected, largely because it's the point of greatest departure from the original. We are, however, starting to reach the final lap with this story.

So, other news! Remember my experiment in world building? Well, it has a new chapter! There will be a third one soon, completing the meta-story for the earth ponies.

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Many moons ago, a group of 14 authors here on FimFic got together and decided to try something new. We wrote a story, under some very specific constraints.

Our ringleader, Arcainum, wrote a short chapter about Twilight Sparkle and the Ponyville town hall, which exploded 400 words later.

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Every once in a while someone will take one of my stories and do something amazing with it. Something much better than I did by merely writing it.

Friends, I give you DeftFunk's dramatic reading of Pantone Perfect, one of the comedy stories I did as part of Shorts:

Listen and be amazed!