So, as some of you may have noticed I haven't been very active on this site as of late. In fact my page has been so dead that when I came back I was kind of taken aback by the changes on the site. Heck, I have even missed a majority of this new season of MLP.

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This blog post is mostly just commentary, and a shortcut for those that already read Rising Effort Chapter 4.

To sum it up, I am largely a Discovery Writer. Every now and then, I intend to have something in a chapter and it slips my mind, but most of the time it isn't a big deal as it's just color to a scene or an interesting line I came up with.

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Writing tonight, not gonna stop till I'm done. Add in revision, and editing time, and it should be about a week. I'm notoriously lazy, so if it's not up by next week, by all means, ride my ass until it is.

As always, thank you for reading

Two recommendations:

HoofBitingActionOverload's two blog posts on how he wrote "Spring is Dumb".  (At first he said there would be 3 posts, but I believe it's finished with these two.  There's also an introductory post, which you don't need to read.)

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Step 1: Drink beers.

Step 2: Watch this music video

Step 3 (ADVANCED CLASS): Snag SHOUT! Factory's Blu-Ray release of Streets of Fire for further research.

Over at the TVTropes pony fanfiction thread, we have been compiling a list of "red flags" inspired by various stories around FIMfic.

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You may or may not have noticed that I haven’t posted any stories recently.

You may or may not have noticed that I am now posting weekly to a new group, ScifiPony’s Writers’ Training Ground. If you are a writer, go there. Seriously.

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I am working on a fanfic that is outside my usually genre of writing. Not gonna give details on what genre in particular, because it's going to be a bit of a surprise. It's not that I don't enjoy writing humor, but the struggle to endlessly be funny might give me heart problems or something.
I am not going to have a myocardial infarction because I'm writing funny horse words.

Anywho, Hope you enjoy when it comes out.

Hello there, I'm TheTimeSword.

So, I finished up Above the Fire Sky this week. I'm glad it's finally finished as I'd like to move on with writing something else. I've mostly figured out that I can write two different stories at the same time, but three or more is almost impossible. This is caused by me wanting to stick so much into a story that it deludes the inspiration pool, which in turn forces me to put limits on chapters.

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Ok, so, as I said, this is a pretty experimental fic for me.

Seeing as I keep finding all these holes and things I really should rewrite in Chapter 4, I've realized that a 15,000 word chapter is too much for me to deal with at once. So I'm cutting it down to 2 chapters and making this a 10 chapter fic. Expect a pair of chapters with (hopefully) under 8000 words each over the course of the next week, then a more regular release schedule after that.

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Last time we talked about how duels should follow the same rules of storytelling as the rest of your story. Starting with not putting life point counters, monsters’ stats, etc. between paragraphs, as they are jarring and break the flow of the narrative.

Now, let’s talk about the action itself. Here are four examples from four different stories, which I’m not going to name because it’s not relevant to this post.

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So! Finished Inoculation. On the one hand, I could've kept it going longer ... but on the other, I didn't want to use jokes that people had already made in the comments. I may whip up a short epilogue in the next couple of days to cap things off, however.

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And I'm ... kind of on track?

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Yes it's true! I've started work on a new story! It's currently sitting at a little over 1400 words and I think I'm close to - or at the point I want to make the end of the first chapter. I'm just not sure on the MC's name so that's something I'll have to settle before submitting it.

Howdy, folks!

It hasn’t been very much time at all since the last writing thing of mine went online last week, and yet I have a new story almost ready to go! This one was fun to write. The idea for it sort of congealed all at once when I was going through some notes over what I wanted to write next, and I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. Here’s a preview of the story page.

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Hello everybody!

I've got the writing itch after so much time without being able to write... So I'll be writing chapter 6 of The Nameless Queen today!

Now, the bulk of active players have already cast their views, but I know there are a few people who haven't had the chance yet..

So this is kind of a invoice for these people! Please cast your votes as soon as possible!

(on a side note, we've reached 1953 views! Expect a 2k special chapter to celebrate soon! )

Bye!

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Personally, while my preference is typically to self-edit with occasional help from prereaders, it is still important to have a good method of writing.

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Vren55: Yo, Georg. In your experience, did you need a big referral from a big author to get a lot of readers on this site? Doing some semi serious research for my next blog post in response to some comments I got.

The answer is too long for just an email. It starts with: Yes. No. It depends.

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Hello, loyal fans! So before I start this post, here’s an update on art, life, etc. First of all, yes, I am working on chapter 18 of Of Night and Stone. I’m sorry for making you all wait, and I intended to have it finished during the same week as when I uploaded chapter 17. But y’know, stuff happened and it distracted me.

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