How to write Equestria Girls

"Oh Tumbleweed!" you cry.

"Seeing as of how you are best at ponies, how is it that you write characters who are NOT ponies? Because seriously opposable thumbs are weird and scary."

WELL LET ME TELL YOU.

STEP 1:

Drink drinks.

But, teenaged drinks. Which is to say non-alcoholic drinks because we are responsible here and we obey the booze laws and also I never got invited to the underaged drinking parties in high school. So, like, Jolt, maybe? Do they still make that? Also the fancy root beer that comes in glass bottles because then you can kind of sort of pretend you're cool.

STEP 2:

Watch this.

STEP 3:

The rest should fall into place. Well, except for the fact that you've got two Twilights to keep track of, and the fact that both of them probably have a thing for Sunset Shimmer, not to mention the whole weird time-dilution thing between dimensions where one set of characters is still in high school while the other set is pretty much grown up already.

And, y'know, don't think too hard about how a princess in one dimension winds up as just a principal in the next.

Really, there's a lot you shouldn't think too hard about.

Comments

[Nopetrain]

Oh Tumbleweed!
I only cry because I want to read more of your stories.
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And because EQG makes no sense.
_{Not that I dislike stories in that setting}

[aceina]

most important thing for writing EG

remember that they are different than there pony selves

[everydaygamer]

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For example human Applejack > pony Applejack. Though I love them both.

[nemryn]

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Yes! For instance, one Rarity has hooves, while the other one does not. Keeping things like that straight can be confusing sometimes, but it's one of the key components in a successful EQG fic.

[FanOfMostEverything]

Or the rainbow skin colors, or the rainbow hair colors, or Rainbow Dash in general, or how everyone just decides to wear their analogues' cutie marks with no apparent awareness that they're doing it...

(looks at own work)

Or, you know, you could think too much about that, but that apparently results in nearly destroying multiple universes.

[Super Trampoline]

Oh Tumbleweed!
I only cry because we haven’t written a dumb collab yet.