https://www.fimfiction.net/story/253991/the-silver-standard

You should read it, because The Silver Standard easily meets the gold standard of writing on FimFiction. It's about a secondary character (or a classroom of them, as it were), so it apparently gets missed by far too many readers.

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http://www.phillyvoice.com/nutritional-seaweed-tastes-bacon/

For you storywriters wanting a topping for those hayburgers Twilight keeps gorging on? Ponies won't know it's not bacon when you fry this stuff up.

I tend to get my creative writing flowing when I hear songs. Oddly enough, songs tend to inspire pony-related works. Today's music being:

And that led to some (not publishable as a story proper) lyrics- but hey, those should lead to an actual story! Y'know, like this one.

It was late in the morning of November,

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"Why yes, Pinkie has THREE sisters, and the new one can punch through solid rock."

I think I now know how every S1-era fanfic writer felt when Shining Armor came outta nowhere. On the other hand, she has a silly hat.

A man can work with a character with a silly hat.

So....I haven't posted lately.

I had a few things happen. The holidays. My house flooding. A promotion at work. My -girlfriend- getting a new job...in North Dakota. Helping her move. A few things. Very big things.

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In a lot of ways, stories I'm writing are like friends. Sometimes they'll speak to you for chapter after chapter or an entire story at once, other times they'll hang out for a bit and wander off into whatever land creative impulses come from until they feel like visiting again and giving you the rest.

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Because a little YouTube listening combined with seeing a sheep icon results in the eternal judgement of Twilight Sparkle. Credit given where credit is due!

Not so much the making of stories, but actual world (or universe) building.

It's one of those things I've always enjoyed reading about- the manifold interpretations of "how did all this come about?" that fictional writers put onto pages. It's as if we're all dimly scrying the infinite could-have-beens of the multiverse, and then putting those visions to paper (electronically speaking or otherwise) to form our little authored universes.

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