So, recently I've been redoing some of my old maps for "The Song of the Spheres," and between them and my worldbuilding notes I've run into a bit of a problem: a lot of them don't make sense.

- Big honkin' gaps in borders with traditional enemies? I'm sure nothing bad ever happened with that!
- My poor, smooth, Euro-centric brain decided to go with semi-feudalism for Homestria's history instead of what it should be (psuedo-Confucism with "Harmony" instead of "The Mandate of Heaven").

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Welcome back writers! As work continues getting Axtara – Magic and Mischief (I still miss Mayhem, but we’ll be getting a BaBW post on that next week) that hasn’t stopped Being a Better Writer from delivering!

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I’ve heard reports that some people consider the pre-Beatles 60’s to have some of the worst pop music in Billboard history. This year I was starting to see it.

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I am back.

The last two months have been spent by me in a cave. Not a literal cave, no, a metaphorical one. But a cave nonetheless. Actually, I was sitting in a deep, dark cave constantly ever since the end of January 2017, when a very unfortunate event in the LoE dev team knocked me down like I had never been knocked down before.

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hi! sorry i haven't made one of these in a bit, but in the mess of life, i've once again washed up on the shores of fimfic here to hack up some updates/news/words.

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So it’s in fashion for authors to do a monthly review of their work. Seen a few folks do it. I think I’m going to start one of my own. It’ll help when I’m feeling discouraged about progress for my stories. In case you're working, the "Takka Takka Takka" is the sound of fingers on a keyboard. I'm 'borrowing' it from Diane Duane's Twitter Account profile pic.

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IN WHICH I PERSEVERED AND DID SOMETHING

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GUYS.

YES.

YOU WON'T BELIEVE IT.

CRYSTALLINE IS GETTING A RE-WRITE! THAT'S WHY SOME STUFF HASN'T UPDATED RECENTLY IS BECAUSE I CURRENTLY HAVE 10 CHAPTERS OF THE NEW VERSION OF PINK ONE AND SNARK HORSE'S UTTERLY RADICAL QUEST WHICH YOU CAN SEE ON THE FRONT OF MY PAGE. THIS MEANS YOU'LL GET TO HAVE WRITING ON PAR WITH TOMB OF MAGIC INSTEAD OF BELOW IT. THE ERRORS IN THE ORIGINAL WILL PERISH.

BUT OHMYGOSH. THERE'S SO MUCH PINK.

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Well, I'll say this: I'm less dead than I look.

Anyway, today I'd like to take a moment to talk about opening lines. We've got an Original Short Story Writeoff finishing up this evening.[1] I've spent a lot of the last week reading and reviewing, and beginning some revisions on an original story of my own. Going through this month's Writeoff entries, though, got me thinking about one of my favorite topics in fiction—and one it seems I've never blogged about before—opening lines.

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New video on my channel from Gary Oak on What Makes a Great Story Part 2/3 Execution

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I've been told that I do original characters well,* so I thought I'd share some of my secrets with y'all.

Source

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Well that depends... we all have our preferences, and that's all it boils down to.

Just because you may say a story is good or bad doesn't mean it IS to all...

the only real rules of stories, music... are all based on what people PREFER/LIKE, and those rules may change all the time (but to most people they'd rather cause flame wars and cyber harassment)

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I'll make this brief, because I have a mountain of work to do. Including this...

I WIN PONY.

This is the pony fanfiction I own. Yes, I bought a lot of ALL of the books at the BronyCon bookstore (most of what you see here). Not pictured: Bad Horse's books which are yet to be shipped to me.

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TL;DR: This blog post contains a pony-fic written by an AI. ...No, it isn't Botnik.

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I found some really great videos on YouTube that show you how to write Egyptian Hieroglyphs. I just thought I would pass them along for anyone who is interested in learning how to write in the ancient Egyptian language.

Egyptian Hieroglyphs: The Basics #1 - Types of Sign

Egyptian Hieroglyphs: The Basics #2 - Transliteration

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If you're at Bronycon, please consider coming to the panel I'm on with three popular writers here on FiMfiction. It's at 12:45 am, but I promise it'll be fun!

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Introduction making of:

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IN WHICH I COOL OFF
This is a busy week for me in the adulting department. So here's, uh, OG Ladybaby. Turn on CC and Enjoy.

Confused? Good. More confusion on the flip side.

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