Jul
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2012
Nasty, Ornery Plot Bunnies · 8:50am Jul 8th, 2012
I don't want to write another unhappy story in a row; The East Field feels like plenty more unhappiness than I need in my repertoire already. But the only plot bunnies that seem to be wandering by me at the moment are ill-tempered and have sharp teeth.
Of the three story ideas that I currently have outlines planned out for, the happiest one of them is "Rarity goes blind." Yeah, that's the brightest and most cheerful thing I've got right now. 
Grr! I want to write something light and happy, with ponies bouncing across meadows while eating ice cream, but the pages just refuse to let the words stick to them. Somepony please make these plot bunnies behave!
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Rainbow Dash bunny sits for angel
Scribble down notes for the dark stuff, then go watch a funny movie like "Clue" or loop Pinkie Pie's "Smile" song endlessly. If you still want to write dark stuff, give in to the bunnies.
Ok, let me give it a shot:
1. A society of bunnies steals an outfit Rarity makes for Opalescence'. Whatever bunny manages to retain the outfit gets to be the leader of the society. Pinkie tries to help Rarity get the outfit back, leading a serious of disastrously funny/stupid blunders. And, of course, Fluttershy has to save the day.
2. Rainbow Dash realizes that the Wonderbolt's are really more like the Harlem Globe Trotters than than a real team of athletes, so she decides to practice long distance endurance flying to be taken more seriously. Eventually she realizes that it was the silliness/awesomeness of the stunts that she liked and that being taken seriously is over rated.
3. Twilight sets out to record a comprehensive history of Ponyville, but finds her sources (Pinkie Pie and or Granny Smith) unreliable. Ponyville's past seems to be more the stuff of legend than academia.
4. In an attempt to make herself even smarter, Twilight casts a spell upon herself to make her speech more eloquent. She ends ups speaking in language so fanciful that her friends can barely understand her. It's a real challenge to figure out how to remove the curse.
Rarity goes blind sounds good, but maybe you should make it clear that it's only temporary (right from the get go) and have the story be more about her friends generously helping her and her being whiny about her plight.
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The Blind Rarity idea was meant to be temporary, yes. The direction I was going to take it was Rarity trying to hide the fact she can't see because she believes her fashion career would be ruined if word got out. The idea to it is something of a self-challenge, to try and write a story without resorting to visual details in the descriptions, concentrating on the other senses instead.
As for the other plot ideas:
1: I really like the potential offered by that one. That could be really funny if done right.
2: It's a good idea, but after a few tremendously failed attempts I have found that I cannot write from Rainbow Dash's POV to save my life. Someone else could make that into a good story, but not me.
3: Unreliable narrators are always fun.
4: "Oh no, she's speakin' Fancy!"
219194 Same problem as #2, I'm terrible at writing for RD.
Thank you everyone for your help. Maybe now I can write something that isn't depressing.