The question, one for an idea I had recently, is simple: which one of my stories did you like the least, and why?

Maybe you disliked "From the Start" for its pretentiousness? Or maybe you didn't like "Spiked Wheels" for how Scootaloo's chracter is handled? Or you didn't like "Boia Dè" for the open ending?

Anything goes, just tell me which one of my stories did you like the least here. You can also make some kind of "Ranks of Shame" if oyu wish.

The evening after coming home from Bronycon for the last time is always depressing.

Anyway, I want to keep things separate to avoid the whole thing going on too long. First I'd like to recap events.

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It's the time of the evening where I'm a few beers in and I find myself listening to Andrew Jackson Jihad. Huh.

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WELP.

In case you hadn't been paying attention, I went ahead and gave National Write a Novel Month a go this year, as I do most years.

And, as I do most years, I failed. Womp womp.

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For those who've been watching Ponyventure: Blood Hunts Blood - I haven't actually deleted it, I've just revoked my submission while I edit it and find a proofreader and rethink a few core concepts.

For those who have no idea what I'm talking about, carry on.

Seriously, I knew AU OC fics weren't popular, but...

My PC is back, which means that I can now resume writing.

So, thought I better get this update thing done before everyone boycotts me when they read tomorrow's chapter. So, Scars will be on a regular post schedule plus some extra chapters on special occasions, my birthday included, until September 3rd where much like the first 2 chapters, I will post the last 2 on the same day. I'm really excited for you guys to see how everything plays out. I have my favorite chapters of course, but I like to see the reactions to what I write. Tomorrow, chapter 26

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The Flashfic 150 August event ends today, but you still have most of the day to enter. It's only 150 words maximum, so that's plenty of time. This month's prompt, chosen by last month's winner (xjuggernaughtx), is "the boiling point." Check it out here, and be sure to read all the rules so you don't get disqualified or overlooked.

A bit earlier then usual for today’s blog post. But I felt like it.

Had the last few days off from writing as finishing chapter 5 really took it’s mental toll on me. Gah.

Chapter 6 is coming along smoothly though. If I keep up the pace I’ve set and write a bit each day I can potentially get the next chapter down in about in 4-5 days. Or approximately 500-1500 words a day at best.

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In the past, I have made some attempts at giving writing advice. Between my limited qualifications and the delivery itself, however, said advice was of questionable merit.

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HEY NERDS.

So, for the whole, like ... twelve of you (At least those Americans who are over 18). actually reading this, GO VOTE. It's super important, and you get a sticker.

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… and keep the best ones

When I worked for Zoesis, I once did a test animation of one block chasing another block around a… third block.  (Drawing's hard, okay?) I animated by writing computer code to control each character. About 15 times a second, at least one behavior for each character would execute that updated its speed and heading according to where it wanted to go and what was in its way.  (It used a behavior-based robot architecture, if you know what that is.)

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Despite a birthday over the weekend, illness, and generally crappy moods, chapter 10 for What They Expect to Give is done! The rough draft, anyway. I kind of doubt my editor can go over it by tonight (I mean, he's done it before, but I won't hold my breath.)

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In this post is a story path I had seriously considered pursuing for What They Expect to Give. If you haven't read chapter 30 yet, then do not read this until you do! I thought it would be amusing to share this for you guys to laugh or marvel at. Ultimately I decided this was waaaay overboard for the pace and tone of the story, and I changed course in favor of a... less crazy route?

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Hi, this post is mostly to other writers who follow me or might happen to read this. I have a big problem with my stories and writing.

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Three years ago, I posted a guest column on Chris's blog about some kinds of gimmick stories, how to make them work, some common pitfalls, etc. for epistolary stories, dialogue-only stories, and open endings. There's one more kind that has been on my thoughts lately. More after the break.

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After being a brony for nearly two and half years, I finally publish something. Granted, the majority of this story has been written in the Autumn of 2015 but after failing to do NaNoWriMo for three years in a row, I decided to buck it and publish one of my works to at least give me some illusion of progress. (Didn't you have something before?) Nope. Nothing before this fanfic....It was completely blank.

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Procrastination is something that we all do. That paper you are supposed to be writing for a class you have, and when to start going to the gym for your new year's resolution. Everyone does it in one form or another. This story that I'm writing, which I'm fairly passionate about, is my most procrastinated project yet. I started writing it soon before season five of MLP began and now we are in the middle of season six. I started writing almost a year ago and I only have two chapters of this

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so the next chapter that I will post tonight is basically filler to kinda get into Principal Celestia's head about this whole thing but the next chapter which should be posted tomorrow will probably be longer than any of them (just to warn you) since it is going to have a lot of things in it I know most of you will want to see happen. Plus it is revealed who all is behind the anon-a-miss account and why the girls behind it even thought it up/got involved.

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So I've been wanting to write a Fluttercord hurt/comfort fic for a while.

My headspace hasn't been the best for writing comedy lately, and I'm still working on my two longer fics but it's going to be a while between chapters, especially since they're longer.

Here's the cover art:

Story should be up later this evening, but right now I have to go do other boring, grown up stuff

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