I got behind, not least of all because my daughter is a weirdo -- she finds the show too scary, and would rather watch terrifying documentaries on the Weather Channel. Anyway, there's a lot of good stuff in there -- especially Hearthbreakers. Let's see -- unpacking holiday traditions in different regions of Equestria. That's priceless, fanfic-wise. The Pies are a strange lot, as well -- their thees and thous and odd rock rituals could be easily spun into them being part of some kind of

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Royalty for a Day

I'm hoping for some feedback for my story as it's my first time with both Luna and Pipsqueak as the main characters. I had some help with the accents for Pipsqueak but I felt like my Luna wasn't quite there.

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I woke up today to the news that WWE has severed their ties to Hulk Hogan over a scandal that was about to break. After considering it for a while, I decided I wanted to chime in on the topic and discuss Hogan, racism, and why this whole thing is a pile of crap.

This post will have none of my usual attempts at humor, so if that's what you're looking for, I advise tuning out now. If this topic is relevant to you, click below to see more.

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Hello readers! Welcome back to another installment of Being a Better Writer, coming to you all on the first day of November, just ahead of the Mariah Carey storm.

You know the one I’m talking about. It nears, even now. Some have already fallen prey to it.

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I just watched the Artemis Fowl trailer, excited that we'd finally see an adaptation of one of the best, most influential works of sci-fi literature, even knowing it'd probably be sub-par...

...I have never been so sickened and enraged by the idea of a movie in my entire life.

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Today's song a slight deviation. In honor of St. Nicholas day, we're going to look at "Zie Ginds Komt de Stoomboot", a Dutch song children sing as they welcome the arrival of Sinterklaas.

Translated as "Look, Here Comes the Steamboat", children sing about how Sinterklaas (St. Nicholas) is travelling from Spain his his horse and the Black Peter(s) to deliver presents to them.

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I can hear the torches being lit from here with a title like that. Like the Beacons of Gondor, save instead of summoning riders, they’re summoning an unhappy bunch.

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Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.
—Eugene Ionesco

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From Slate's Dear Prudence column:

Help! I Work With a My Little Pony Superfan Who Wants to Be Called "Starfire."

(I support it, for the record. Treat people the way they want to be treated and be an adult about it.)

I haven't been able to write (or do) hardly anything in months, even though I'm off during the Summer and stuck inside. At first I thought it was mental illness, but much of it's still physical, and I don't quite know where the separation twixt the two lies.

Also, the brony world appears to have descended into chaos.

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I recently finished Malcom Gladwell's latest book: Talking to Strangers. It's a good read, if bleak and unsettling. One chapter of the book that really got my brain going was on the ability of humanity to "read" the emotions of others. (I cannot find online anywhere the work cited for Chapter 6: "The Friends Fallacy"—my library audiobook version didn't have it—so I'm talking about this from my untrustworthy memory)

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Bonzour, zot tou!

Roughly translates to “Hello, everyone!”

You know, it’s just occurred to me that I’ve never actually talked about where I’m from. Sure, I’ve mentioned it here and there, but never in detail.

Time to rectify that. 

Hiya, lovely peeps, and greetings from Mauritius! ‘Tis a small island country off the east coast of mainland Africa, with a population of around 1.3 million people.

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Hey readers, got a short post for you here today. It may not have escaped your notice in recent weeks (or maybe it did, and you’ve spent your time better than I) that the book industry, specifically traditional publishing, has been under fire.

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Hello again writers! It’s Monday (or Friday, if you’re a Patreon Supporter), so it’s time for another installment of Being a Better Writer!

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Welcome back readers! It’s Monday, and that mean’s it’s time for another installment of Being a Better Writer!

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After getting pretty far in Fallout 3's process, I feel like I know just enough to write my own Fallout Equestria with my own character, and my own plot. All I have to do now is read Fallout Equestria and do a little more research. However, this blog is meant to answer some questions you all have, so let me answer a few I can assume some of you are asking.

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Hello readers, and welcome back to another post of Being a Better Writer, coming to you bright and early this Tuesday morning.

Yeah, Tuesday. Mondays shifts at my part-time job again. Just a fair heads-up, I’ve got a Monday shift next week too, so next week’s BaBW post will also be delayed. It happens. And I need the money, so …

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In which a Ponyvillian experiences serious culture shock:

"'No,' the unicorn sighed in annoyance. 'I told him we were supposed to meet here. I even checked to make sure this was the exact place. Scene said we were supposed to go to the bakery on the theatre district that sells the blueberry frosted doughnuts, but I swear I just passed a million Duck ‘n Donuts and it was a miracle that I even found the right one in the first place—'

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