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Aug
5th
2017

How To Get Dah Ladies - 100% Success Rate! · 10:41pm Aug 5th, 2017

How To Get Dah Ladies - 100% Success Rate!

I bet you fine gentleman are wondering how to get all of the ladies. Well look no further than this tutorial. I've got your back.

So what you will need is:

1. A large supply of chocolate. Get white chocolate too, just in case the lady is allergic to regular chocolate. You can also get that fake chocolate stuff too but, eh, it is not as effective.

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Nov
27th
2016

cleverpun’s Idea Graveyard/”How NOT to Write” #3: The Astronomy ‘Verse · 6:23am Nov 27th, 2016

Many moons ago, I saw all those Multi-story-spanning alternate universes rampant at the time. I thought to myself, “I could do that.” As the title of this blog series may hint, it never truly congealed into a good story, let alone multiple stories. For today’s idea graveyard, I’d like to share the meandering process with you all. After all, as John Dewey said, “Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.”


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Mar
30th
2017

CCC: cleverpun's Critique Corner #32 — La Da Dee (PMV) · 7:35am Mar 30th, 2017

Review Index

Format Breakdown


I have reviewed some things that don’t traditionally receive deep criticism. I’ve done full length reviews of porn and a webcomic, for instance. Today, we add a Pony Music Video (PMV) to that list.

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Nov
14th
2018

Showing the Monster · 2:20pm Nov 14th, 2018

Showing the Monster
Two common pieces of advice for writing horror, and why they miss the mark.

I've wanted to write this one for a while, but a recent discussion in #writing-help (yes, that #writing-help) got me thinking about it again.

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Feb
24th
2019

WRITING ADVICE MASTER INDEX · 10:37pm Feb 24th, 2019

Here they are! All of my writing advice posts in a master-index for y'all to scan through, and reordered for slightly better presentation than chronological order.

Writing Advice

General

COMING SOON: The 5 steps of Writing Anything like a Professional
Revising a Story

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Oct
4th
2022

The Origin Of A Story · 9:41pm Oct 4th, 2022

[Found this sticky note at my departure gate at SeaTac, leaving EFNW. I do not believe in coincidences. 😌]

Dear Readers (including and especially all those enjoying the Autumn and the Autumn):

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Jan
3rd
2017

Happy New Year and considerations · 3:58pm Jan 3rd, 2017

First off, a belated Happy New Year to you all!

Secondly, the results of my hiatus (or perhaps, my hiatus thus far...)

Now, I don't want to just give up on a story that I started writing. It's something I wound up doing back when I was writing Yu-Gi-Oh fanfiction with my friends and we wound up abandoning a whole bunch of fun ideas we had and leaving the readers on a massive cliff-hanger.

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Jun
1st
2017

Dealing with Jealousy and Broken Friendships · 5:33pm Jun 1st, 2017

Dealing with Jealousy and Broken Friendships

Jealousy can be a tough thing to deal with. You want to believe that as someone who tries to do the right thing or generally be a good person that jealously can't effect you. But the reality is that it is something that everyone has experienced in one form or another in their lives. It it is a natural human emotion and it is okay to feel jealous about a situation, just as long as you also work to resolve the issue at the same time.

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Mar
2nd
2015

I did a thing. · 10:10am Mar 2nd, 2015

So my local Brony group is really active and organized, and one of the things we do is a free, weekly, hour-long writing class with volunteer teachers. I've taught two lessons in it so far, and my non-Brony roommate wanted me to film it this last time because he was interested in the lesson but didn't want to come to the group meeting. So I took about eight hours to get the whole thing into good shape on YouTube, and you can watch it there. And now you can watch it here, if you have a spare

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Mar
8th
2023

Mechanized Bestiary, a Lancer NPC Guide: Basic GM Advice and NPC Templates part 1 - 5 · 8:22pm Mar 8th, 2023

May
23rd
2021

It was just a joke. Calm down. · 8:24pm May 23rd, 2021

While seeing "people" on Twitter whine about first world problems is amusing to some, it is still a concern.

"It was just a joke."

Racist Jokes - First, according to Twitter users, EVERYTHING is racism, so that there already invalidates their opinion on humor.

Offensive - According to Twitter and most young people who suffer from oversensitivity, literally EVERYTHING is offensive. Once again those "people" are invalidated.

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May
27th
2016

A new approach to multi-chapter fanfiction · 8:00pm May 27th, 2016

A while ago, back when I first started writing MLP fan fiction and posting it here, I wrote a fanfiction called "Nightmares Never Cease". It was my first multi-chapter fan fiction and I was, for a while, very proud of it. I had a lot of excellent ideas for future chapters, or so I thought at the time. However, one day, I started losing interest in it. It happened gradually. I got used to writing one chapter or at least a significant amount of a chapter once a day. Then it was once every

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Feb
23rd
2018

New fic is released: "The Sun Still Shines" · 2:30am Feb 23rd, 2018

Faster than expected, the first fic from my list of upcoming stories is now released.
Originally, I wanted to give this fic more time. The idea was to study the writing style of Vanilla Mocha, the author I took this fic over from, so that I can try and write this fic like she would have, since the basic idea for the fic came from her.

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Jan
5th
2020

CCC: cleverpun's Critique Corner #36 — Pony Peace is Dragon War (Diplomatic Dragon Noises Included) · 9:32am Jan 5th, 2020

Jun
28th
2017

[Humility] What's Taking So Long? · 4:21am Jun 28th, 2017

I've been trying really hard to wrap up Humility over the last couple of months. I'm constantly going back to the story and trying to find the inspiration that began the whole thing, and even though I can sense it, I can't quite grasp it. What's worse? The ending is already written. I have probably three or four scenes left out of the entire story before I consider it finished, and I can't figure it out!

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Jul
30th
2017

OPWA: Episode Twelve · 6:45pm Jul 30th, 2017

Overpriced Writing Advice
Where you can learn the stuff I paid thousands of dollars to have taught to me, for free.

...Or In This Case, I Share The Free Stuff I Find - Pt. 3
(AKA "Blog share: Character = Theme, and The Dangers of Bathos")

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May
21st
2021

Houses Aflame?! Meh... · 4:25am May 21st, 2021

Remember how every once in a while you and your neighborhood gets one of those neighbors from hell? The one household you wish would simply disappear and thus relieve much if not all the suffering your neighbors and you have been forced to endure for an untold amount of time?

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Aug
6th
2021

Another Shining Example Of How To Add A Little Sparkle Of Love To Your Life. · 8:09am Aug 6th, 2021

Sister asks for help with her studies/homework.

What you were hoping for:

But nah… Mom and dad are home. Fat chance.

What you were honestly expecting, though:

Because she just such a little sweetheart.

What you got:

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Jan
19th
2018

cleverpun’s Idea Graveyard: Never Tamed · 8:27am Jan 19th, 2018

Another year, another in my series of Idea Graveyard posts, where I discuss an idea of mine that failed to get off the ground for one reason or another. What made me discard the idea, and why haven’t I tried again. Today’s subject is different from my previous failures: its shortcomings are more narrow and simple, but in some ways that makes them harder to fix.

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Apr
21st
2020

F/F/T3K19 4/20: B L A Z E · 4:42am Apr 21st, 2020

Last week's thing is done. Another ongoing mess tidied.

This week, it's Weed Day on Weed Month. That means a compilation of stories from our weediest repeat offender. Good luck.

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