(Prompt: No prompt, FFAF.)
(Occasionally I get writer's block. I feel this is exceedingly weak but I want to keep writing every day and it's too late to write anything else, so I'm posting it anyway.)
Rainbow Dash flared her wings and let out a frustrated noise. "Argh this is so annoying!"
Twilight Sparkle jumped a bit at the sound.. Up until that, it had been a relatively quiet afternoon in the library. Twilight glanced down at the book she had been reading, then marked her place and closed it. "What's wrong, Rainbow?"
"It's this stupid story, I can't think of anything else to do!" Rainbow threw the quill down, though the feather just fluttered lazily down from her lips, landing with an unsatisfying silence.
Twilight tilted her head slightly. "The next chapter of The Adventures of Color Flash isn't going well?"
Rainbow slumped forward, laying half across the desk she was sitting at. "She's already done everything. She's Captain of the Wonderbolts, she's Daring Do's best friend-"
"Really? I thought they were datin-"
"No way, nothing sappy like that!" Rainbow's eyes widened and she waved her hooves dismissively. A moment later though she sighed in defeat. "But that's it, she's got it all already. It's stupid, flying gets easier the more you do it, but writing just gets... harder."
Twilight smiled, and pushed her book aside. She sat up a bit straighter. "Well, flying gets harder at times too. When you start trying to do tricks, for instance. Maybe that's what you're doing with your writing."
Rainbow perked an ear. "Huh?"
"You already have..." Twilight sighed quietly. "Color Flash, doing all these amazing things. But maybe you want to write something a little more... realistic. You know, like the parts of the Daring Do books that aren't just adventuring and kicking bad guys."
"You mean the boring parts? No way Twilight, I just need to think up something extra awesome for the next chapter!" Rainbow sat up again, and fetched the quill from the desk.
Twilight watched as the tip of the quill hovered over the paper. She opened her mouth to say something, only for Rainbow Dash to glance at her, and then lean forward and press the tip of the quill to the blank sheet. Rainbow froze up for a moment, and then slowly dragged the quill down about the length of a letter.
Neither pony moved for a few seconds, and then Rainbow dropped the quill again with a sigh. "Fine! I have no ideas! I'm a terrible writer, okay? I'm an athlete, I don't do this kind of stuff!"
Calmly lifting the quill in her magic, Twilight set it back down beside the stack of papers. She removed the top sheet and bundled it up, throwing it into the bin next to the desk. "How about you try writing something different? About somepony other than Color Flash."
"You said I couldn't write anything else about Princess Evening Glimmer after the last time."
Twilight rolled her eyes. "Not her either. How about... something about one of our friends? The point is to slow down and write something that could actually happen in real life."
Rainbow wore a flat expression. "Twilight, last week Fluttershy turned into a bat and attacked us. Nothing Color Flash does is that crazy."
Twilight opened her mouth, closed it, and then opened it again before speaking. "Well... something that could happen to ponies that don't do crazy things. Just something about life. Something real."
Rainbow Dash, stared down at the page for a few moments. “About who? I can't just write about weather work or anything.”
“How about yourself? A real story about yourself, that isn't about flying or the Wonderbolts.”
The pegasus looked at Twilight suspiciously. “This sounds like some kind of school thing.”
Twilight Sparkle blushed slightly. “Princess Celestia asked me to do this kind of thing sometimes, just as practice. But it's like flying, the more you practice, the better you get.”
"... Fine. But if it's boring and stupid and no one likes it, I'm denying I ever wrote it."
She picked up the quill in her lips, and thought for a moment. Then she started writing.
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"Rainbow Dash flared her wings and let out a frustrated noise. 'Argh this is so annoying!'"