It all started on May 15th, 2012. (Just a few days ago as I write this.) I was working a double shift (two twelve hour posts back to back) and was desperate for a way to keep myself occupied.
And I started coming up with ideas for pony fanfics. I slapped the #PonyStoryIdea hashtag on them and tweeted them, just to have fun.
The first was "#PonyStoryIdea: Sweetie Belle does a Freaky Friday switch with Princess Celestia."
They got weird. They got silly. Some of them had absolutely no potential at all, and were just joke ideas like "Just like [popular movie] except ponies."
And then on May 18th, at around 2 in the afternoon, I had an idea for a bittersweet story about Ponyville's tendency to panic at the sight of anything new or different. I ran out of room in the tweet, unable to clarify what I meant without using a second tweet. What I tweeted was "#PonyStoryIdea: "Hoof Language" When a deaf-mute pony moves to Ponyville, the citizens react with typical fear of the unknown until Derpy."
I'd intended to say "approaches the pony and attempts to communicate." But I was tickled by "until Derpy."
There followed a series of silly, whimsical story ideas ending with "until Derpy."
Then I tweeted the following: "#PonyStoryIdea: Derpy approaches Princess Celestia with an idea to revitalize an old toy line nopony remembers but her: My Little Muffins"
After a minute or two, I decided I was going to write this story. So I started, got two paragraphs in, and changed my mind:
"No. I am not going to just write My Little Muffins. This is MY STORY, and I'm going to TWEET IT!"
And so I did. A line at a time, I spent the next three hours tweeting My Little Muffins on my craptastic cel phone. I got a thumb cramp, and I got zero replies, but I enjoyed myself.
And resolved to start tweeting a story every couple of days just for fun.
This will be an archive of those stories.
So, if you're interested, go ahead and turn to the first story: My Little Muffins in chapter two of this fic.