Welcome writers, to another Monday installment of Being a Better Writer! We’ve got an intriguing writing discussion for you today, but first we must discuss the elephant in the room. Or rather, the dragon in the room.

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It has Trixie. If you really liked Wishing Werelights there's some connections the two share that you'll like. If not, you'll still like it. Trixie does Trixie things. Oh, and there will be that new story in, like, five days. With all this writing getting done recently there's actually something to blog about, and uh, a lot. Especially compared to the 'Yes, I'm alive and writing a little' stuff I had been making for most of 2019 regarding projects.

Enjoy Trixie!

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Yes, your friendly, neighborhood Biker Dash has been busy writing.

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Eyup. You heard me right, Marble Pie to celebrate the beginning of November. What was intended to be a thousand words is once again more like three. Darned flow of consciousness stuff, not really learning about the characters and their motivations until they show me! What a roller coaster. Makes me worried I'm schizophrenic sometimes; multiple personalities, don't you know.

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Thanks to those of you who wished me a happy birthday! It's kind of weird not to be able to go to Comikaze or, what would be even better, spend it with my family. Two years ago, I was able to celebrate my nephew's birthday (the 28th) and mine (the 31st) together. It had been decades since my family had sung "Happy Birthday" to me, and I was surprised at how much it made me tear up. Last year, my Mom and Dad flew all the way to California to be with me, and that was awesome, too. My town has

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Feeling up for some mental exercise? Here's something to tickle both sides of your brain — the logical and the creative. Better yet, there's cash and prizes involved!

"Dream A Little Dream Of Me"
A contest for The Last Dreams of Pony Island

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"Kill your darlings," Stephen King Hemingway Faulkner Arthur Quiller-Couch said to young authors, in his 1914 lecture "On Style":

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Hey guys,

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Note: this looks better on Google Docs. To read it there instead:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SdSDcwSJGEBCfZeYAy9pUhcYEpmjnDmGs0L2ANIJOUM/edit?usp=sharing
This is just sort of a copy/paste version of what's there.
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Preface:

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I’ve been listening to Writing Excuses by Brandon Sanderson, Howard Tayler, and Dan Wells. I always knew about it, but I'm not sure why I didn’t listen to it sooner. It started around 2008, but the stuff they were saying back then still applies to today. Right now they are currently on season ten. I have a lot of catching up to do…

And listening to it, I had an epiphany of sorts.

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"Do you have any tips for writing slice of life?"

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So, after my blog post the other day, I decided to start a group: The A.K. Yearling Society for Original Writers

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After facing the dread of organising (and actually living) me moving from my parents in the French Caribbean to my new residence in continental France, facing several administrations all at once and starting my classes while fighting dreadful panic attacks, I finally have the time (and motivation) to write a bit.

Once I get rid of that writing block.

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Been thinking of a new story idea, though it's not one I can even begin to think to about starting anytime soon as I still have Taxonomy to finish. If any of you have seen the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the protagonist decides to erase his ex girlfriend from his memories after finding out she has done the same to hers. As he goes through his memories in reverse in a dream-like setting, he remembers why he loves her.

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I have entered Eternal Chaos of the Spotless Draconequus into the Anachronistic Story competition.

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I'm slow. I've been working on writing a single, non-plural story, for just over 2 years. Carry On Wayward Storm is just a simple story about my pegasus OC, Stormwing. Right now, it's just over 35k words, and 81 pages long. That's about 48 words a day, roughly.

So yeah, needless to say even though my story takes place in the middle of Season 4, Season 6 is right around the corner. But on the plus side, I was on the last 2 chapters or so for my story. Huzzah...

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So, I had this really great workshop written up about "building up" stories versus "building down" stories, but then my computer bugged out, and I had to restart it. I lost everything. So now I'm gonna do a completely different one instead! This one's been a long time coming, which is a shame, considering how important it is. Friends, let's talk about figurative language!

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It's midnight here, January 15th, so I am now even more of an adult than before.

… Well, as much of an adult as I can be. I mean, really, it's a miracle I know what I'm doing. Juuuust kidding I barely do. But I digress.

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You may have noticed the word count for Non-Entity went up. That's because I completely missed out a scene in the latest chapter! It's there now, but if you missed it before here it is. Sort of looks weird without it because I wanted to build up the bond between Discord and Fluttershy. I also padded out a few sentences because I felt they were "tell" rather than show, and IMO that makes for stilted writing.

Here's the scene:

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Hey all, it's about time I did another blog!

I've been writing! I'm doing CampNaNoWriMo (that's a mouthful) this month - which is basically another National Novel Writing Month but less formal and with more freedom. So I'm not focusing one novel this time (I'm saving that urban fantasy idea for November) but working on various projects to make up the 50k goal. Projects include...

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