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  • 222 weeks
    When doing stories set in the past... please do your research.

    Not knowing what you are writing about can... cause issues.

    Example:
    My dad read a book set in London and he was a bit annoyed that the author had characters riding bikes... 200 years before they were invented.

    Extreme example.

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  • 352 weeks
    Feature I wish Fimfiction had

    I wish fimfiction would clean up the in-progress list.

    What do I mean?
    Currently, if you go searching in the in-progress stories... you will find allot of dead/hiatus fics that the author never bothered to label as being dead/on hiatus.

    What I wish would happen.
    * Mark any story where the author hasn't logged onto the website in a year as dead.

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  • 372 weeks
    Why harems are hard to do well

    There are 3 types of harem stories.
    1. Porn -> This is done for exotic scenarios. The goal is to be erotic, not deep story telling.
    2. Wish fulfillment/Mary Sue -> Everyone loves my character! Everyone I fantasize about will mary him/her! And get along, even with wildly different and clashing personalities!
    3. Attempting to write a romance.

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  • 411 weeks
    Methods of getting to Equestria

    There are many methods for getting to Equestria in FIM fiction. Thought I would make a list of them all.
    If I missed any, please tell me.

    WIP

    1. Natural/supernatural event - A random portal sucks the human and/or his surroundings into Equestria. The advantage of this is that it is short and to the point.
    Examples:

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  • 415 weeks
    Your house in Equestria...

    ...and why it shouldn't magically have utilities hooked up.

    I can't believe I'm actually having to post this... but... I just came across yet another story that does this.

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Jul
10th
2016

Methods of getting to Equestria · 6:02pm Jul 10th, 2016

There are many methods for getting to Equestria in FIM fiction. Thought I would make a list of them all.
If I missed any, please tell me.

WIP

1. Natural/supernatural event - A random portal sucks the human and/or his surroundings into Equestria. The advantage of this is that it is short and to the point.
Examples:
* New Beginnings
* Improbable Truth
* Just Passing Through

2. Summoned by a pony
Whether it is Lyra, Twilight or Nightmare moon. This method allows a bit more flexability in the results of said spell. The downside and the upside is the writer has to come up with a motive for the human being summoned. It provides a bit of narrative.
Summoned on Purpose:
* Blank
* The substitute Demon
* 1000 virgin mares 1 fricking baddass dark overdude infinite facehoofing
Summoned by Accident:
We're Twins, Yes Twins

3. Discord or other draconequus - Good one's give him a reason for the summoning. Bad one's tend to use the "for the lolzs" excuse.
Ex: Second Chances Many Changes

4. Displaced
Put on a costume and end up in Equestria as that character. There are a ton of badly written self-insert fics using this premise. The big problems with many of these fics are listed here .
My recommendation is don't do this. Very few readers will even give your fic a chance. Make it a straight crossover instead.

5. Human has a science/magical accident that sends them to Equestria
That strange stallion

6. Portal to Equestria (Equestria High, Stargate, mirror, etc)
The Sun and The Rose
The brony guard unlimited

7. Spaceship
Either a human travels to Equestria with their own space ship or a human is stranded there by his alien abductors.
What I've Become

8. Reincarnation. (Just please don't use the saved a kid chasing a ball across the road trope)
Living Nightmare

9. Cryogenics/Timetravel - Planet of the apes/The Time Machine type story where Equestria is the future of the Earth and mankind has died out.

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