I joined the Writeoff Association's latest contest. It was a minific competition of stories 400-750 words in length, based on the prompt "Famous Last Words".

There's three catches:

The stories are judged by the public. That means you, the reader, get to determine who wins!

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Some time ago, Equestria Daily decided to run a contest where you write about ponies from an outsider (non-pony) point of view. I saw it, but didn't have any ideas for it, so dismissed it. Heck, I even helped edit a couple stories for the contest.

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Long ago, The Lost Narrator notified me that they'd done a reading of Temptation.

I discovered as I went through my blog posts today that I never made a blog post about it.

I'm not really sure how that happened, doubly so as the video now has over 7,000 views.

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I have frequently heard complaints by various members of various review groups that people seem to frequently not understand the difference between a pre-reader, an editior, and a reviewer. Indeed, I have heard complaints from a number of reviewers that it is frustrating to them when people send in stories which are badly in need of editing, and then complain when the reviewer does not give them detailed feedback calling out specific grammatical errors. Unfortunately, many of the people who

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What should be done about Discord?

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It is my intent to post a story I've been chewing on for a couple months tomorrow; I have been sitting on it for far too long, and it is time that it be launched out into the world to be seen and judged and enjoyed so I can work on other things and stop letting it hang over my head.

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According to a new study from psychologists at Ohio State University, they have now identified a single question which reliably identifies narcissists as reliably as their in-depth, 40 question long questionnaires.

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So, some of you may remember that a month ago, DRWolf was kind enough to do a dramatic reading of The Stars Ascendant.

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So, for those of you who have been living under a rock, there has been a rather large Ebola outbreak in Africa. Ebola, for those not in the know, is a viral hemorrhagic fever which causes, well, exactly what it sounds like: hemorrhaging. In other words, bleeding; both internal and external. Yes, fun times. It has a fatality rate of between 50 and 90%; the current outbreak's fatality rate is hovering around 60%. It has, at present, killed over 700 people and is presently continuing to infect

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The FlutterDash group is holding a contest. The FlutterDash group, to all you non-shippers out there, is a group devoted to romance between Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash - not my favorite ship (not that any of you could have guessed that from my

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