A collection of unfinished, scrapped, or otherwise previously unpublished story ideas. They range across all genres, and span many themes, but the one thing they have in common is that I dropped all of them for one reason or another. There is no particular order to how they are presented, though most of them are at least a year old or more. Their quality varies widely, and so does their content. I'll give the titles and tags in the following paragraph, and offer a very brief description. I'll explain where I was going with the story in the author's notes at the end of each chapter, and try to provide some context as well.
So here they are, in all their dubious glory.
(Note: None of these stories have been edited from their original drafts, so it's likely that there will be many many grammatical errors)
Diary of a Con-Artist (working title)
[Slice of Life][Comedy]
Seymour Grasse, a con-artist by trade, ends up being killed by one of his marks, though which one is a mystery. This is the story leading up to that event.
Just Don't Get Caught
[Adventure] (I guess...)
This was intended to be a heist story about a misanthropic stallion who is betrayed by one of his clients and has to escape with the client's son.
Unamed Sequel to Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Hooves
[Comedy][Random][Romance(?)]
Basically just Trixie living with Twilight in the aftermath of their boxing match. Oh, and the Twilight and Spike that "original" Twilight sent to the moon come back seeking vengeance.
Of Great and Powerful Things
[Dark][Sad]
Based off the fansong of the same name, this was going to be my sad Trixie backstory.
One in the Chamber
[Adventure][Romance]
Imagine the plot of For a Few Dollars More, and you'll have a basic idea of what this was going to be. Nameless drifter wanders into a town to collect a bounty and ends up meeting a mare who convinces him to protect the town from bandits. I think he was supposed to be searching for some kind of treasure as well.
On the Shores of Demilune Lake
[Dark][Adventure]
Anthropologist [Name], heads to Demilune Lake upon hearing reports of seaponies residing within the chilly waters. Once there, he finds that the family he's staying with aren't all they seem, and neither are the seaponies he's hunting.
Outpost 2021 (working title)
[Adventure]
While working on discovering a way to facilitate faster-than-light travel, Twilight accidentally sends herself, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash 30,000 years into the future. In this barren futurescape, unicorns are an extinct race, and Twilight is hunted down as a mutant.
Unamed SchizoDerpy Fic
[Tragedy]
Derpy is a slightly unhinged schizophrenic, and she slowly grows to loathe all the ponies she works with at the mail-sorting facility after she suspects them of conspiring against her.
Unamed TwiLuna Fic
[Romance][Tragedy(?)]
Hoo boy... what do I even say about this one? This was written when everyone and their grandmother was churning out TwiLuna fics. I used to really like shipping back then, so there you go, I guess.
Unamed Twixie Fic
[Romance (if you can call it that)]
Basically read the above description and replace "TwiLuna" with "Twixie".
An Unbelievably Good Day to Dash Hard
[Comedy][Adventure]
A buddy-cop comedy starring Rainbow Dash and Spike. That's basically it.
Tombra: A Love Story
[Comedy][Random]
Tom the Rock and Sombra fall in love.
Unamed Daring Do Fic
[Adventure]
After the failure of my first Daring Do fic, I decided to take another crack, but never ended up finishing it.
Trixie Saves Her Paraplegic Orphan Daughter From Aliens
[Comedy][Random]
After Daisy, Trixie's blind paraplegic orphan daughter, gets kidnapped by aliens, it's up to Trixie to save her. Obviously though, it's too big of a job for one mare, so she enlists the help of Twilight and Co. along the way.
Unamed Crackfic
[Comedy]
Trixie ends up accidentally trapping herself inside a necklace and then tricks Twilight into wearing her, thus cursing her in the process.
Flutternoir
[Dark][Noir]
When a bigshot cloud-baron buys up all the rainbow making factories in Cloudsdale, it stirs up a bit of controversy. However, before anyone can figure out who this guy really is, all the opposition suddenly disappears over night. Rainbow Dash, due to some bad timing, finds herself kidnapped. Fluttershy, meanwhile, stumbles across a corrupt political system and tries to uncover a plot to have all of Cloudsdale's rainbow supply outsourced to another city.
Trix and the City
[Comedy][Random]
A predator from Predator ends up in Manehattan where he happens across Trixie. The two go on wreaking havoc and eventually fall in love. Well, Trixie does, anyway.
Colour me intrigued.
This fic sums up my earliest attempts at writing disturbingly well. Purple prose, enormous paragraphs, needless rehashing, horrible grammar...
Also, it's my favourite ship, just to top it off.
Excuse me, I'm going to go sit down for a while and ponder things.
ha that title image
You just need to assassinate the heralds and tear down the wanted posters.
Or he was in the bathroom taking a dump when you cut the lights.
You mean they now have a concussion and possible brain damage.
Actually, part of that premise sounds really cool. The part about Celestia and Luna starting off as AI who make themselves bodies, that is. The hatred against Twi sounds a little too farfetched, given that you'd then have to wipe out every other unicorn in the show to fit.
Dash and Spike ... as bank robbers? Why haven't you written this one already?!? This sounds amazing!
Have you ever visited a real desert? Just curious. They're not nearly as much fun as games would make them seem.
*Grins* I dunno, this old style has some merit to it. It still has a very distinct feel to it, much like your more current style does. Could've been interesting to see more.
*Grins* Definitely feels a bit telly and confusing, like the characters don't entirely know why they're doing what they're doing. Still interesting
Pfft, I figure this sits nicely entirely on it's own without anything attached to it.
It definitely feels overly maudlin, but nothing too bad. It doesn't smack of teenaged angst as much as you might think it does.
It makes me smile, because I imagine you rewriting it now and it would likely wind up with going somewhere ridiculous like Trixie finding her family and discovering they were just pretending to be horrendously poor and were secretly rich bored socialites who welcome her into the lap of luxury.
I confess, my first thought was that you had clearly overdosed on westerns.
*Grins* It interesting n that it does truly feel like a researcher speaking on his experiences and could be talking to a large group at some historical society or perhaps dictating his memoirs. So kudos on capturing that voice.
I confess the phrase "The screws holding the wires in place loosened themselves, releasing their copper hostages." Kinda killed my focus because all I could think was of these little copper hostages running back to their families and crying tears of oxidized relief and joy.
Also, the voice change during AJ and Dash's scene
I could see such a thing going well but I'd be reluctant to try it, simply because it's such a difficult thing to do well.
*Laughs* This feels like it was dug out of a box in the attic labeled "Teenage writing"
Kudos on your bravery for showing your less than amazing earlier work. At the very least it's cool to see your roots.
Dream journals are powerful things?
Oh god, why aren't you writing this?
Maybe this is worth revisiting sometime?
I can't help but hear that authors note as you needing me to harrass you more n___n
...That kid...
I could still see this going well. Something akin to the inconvenient trixie tumblr.
Interesting idea and I like how you handle Flttershy's voice.
*Snerk* I could see it working. I just had to comment on every single one since I know how much you love getting a stack of comments when you log in n__n