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-Jules


"You're one bad day away from being me."

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This is a collection of short stories written for the prompts on the Thirty Minute Ponies tumblr.
(Separate story info below)

I wanted to start writing faster and learn how to write in new styles, and decided the best way would be practice. I remember finding a few groups here for prompts but don’t think I’ve ever actually seen a prompt from any of them. And then I stumbled onto the tumblr, which unfortunately had closed roughly two weeks before I found it. I decided that I’d take the prompts anyways though. My goal is to write one a day, but that won’t always be possible. The stories will vary from genre to genre, but Slice of Life will be fairly prevalent just by the nature of the beast.

Odds are this will eventually break into multiple collections, considering there are 572 prompts.

The overall style of this changes (or will change) around prompt #10

Prompt 1: Visiting Hours "Write a Rainbow Pie story in which one (or both) of the characters does not utter a single word of dialogue for the entire story."
Pinkie goes to visit Rainbow Dash in the hospital. [Sad] [Slice of Life]

Prompt 2: Untitled (Appleshocked) “Applejack walks in on a romantic moment between Twilight and Rarity.” [Romance] [Slice of Life]

Prompt 3: I'm Sorry "Twilight is grievously injured and only Pinkie Pie can save her."
One of Pinkie's shenanigans has backfired badly, and she tries to make up for that.[Adventure(?)] [Slice of Life]

Prompt 4: Don’t Read This One “Princess Luna takes Pinkie Pie on an ‘outing’ to thank her for something.”
Pinkie and Luna will be attending a party at Studio 49. [Slice of Life] No seriously. Don’t read this one.

Prompt 5: The House-guest “Rarity and Fluttershy have their first big fight.”
Rarity has an unwelcome visitor and seeks Fluttershy’s help. [Comedy] [Slice of Life(?)]

Prompt 6: The Ascent "Character A has done or is going to do something which will hurt Character B, and A knows they’re going to hurt B, but A is going to do it anyway."
Spike and Twilight have made an unfortunate discovery during an expedition, and have to race it to freedom. [Tragedy] [Dark]

Prompt 7: Oops “The circumstances leading to, following, or surrounding somepony uttering the question, ‘How could Twilight Sparkle be so stupid?’”
Spike and Twilight have to deal with a spell gone horribly wrong. [Comedy] [Random(?)]

Prompt 8: The Dance "Write a story about ponies dancing." He doesn't remember why they dance, no one does anymore. But this year is different, he can feel it. [Dark]

Prompt 9: The Funeral “Write a Flutterjack fic which includes the last words Fluttershy and Applejack ever say to one another.”
Rainbow Dash attends Applejack's funeral. [Sad]

Prompt 10: A Night on the Town "Two ponies go to a bar, one gets extremely drunk."
One of Celestia's personal guards finds himself in a position his training did not prepare him for. [Comedy]


I personally do all of the writing and editing on these stories, for better or for worse.

Chapters (10)
Comments ( 10 )

Nice interpretation of the prompt. Still a bit messy, and I'm not sure why the nurse thinks Pinkie is doing something she shouldn't, but other than that, it's good.

Ohh, shipfics. Nice argument as the premise, I liked that.

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I was afraid to even look at that one, I wrote it so long ago and just never published it. Back when I had no idea what I was doing. Re-reading it now is worrying. I don't know what the nurse thinks she's doing either.

These are pretty good! Laughed at a couple of them.

With regards to the shippiness of the prompts, it was mostly shipping for the sake of shipping. (Wait until they really get going on the Omniship prompts:derpytongue2:). They all had different OTPs, so the prompts were ways to get shippy stories featuring their favoured pairings. Sometimes it even worked.

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Glad to see someone's enjoying these. I kinda figured that had to be the situation on all the ships, it was the only real explanation for the sheer variety I've seen so far.
Omniship prompts. That could mean a couple of things, I think writing any of them should be... interesting at least.

What happened to #8? Are you still going to do that one?

I wonder what Twilight would think when Flutters and Rarity try to explain what they need Spike for. XD

The only things that are missing are:
A. Discord laughing his tail off
B. A pissed Celestia that she had to clean up another mess of Twilight's.

Other than that, good story. :)

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Yes, it is still in production. It got bigger than I thought, so I'm taking more care with it than the others. In fact I hadn't realized how far behind I'd fallen on these because of number 8. I'll either wrap it up soon or temporarily shelve it to keep moving on. Since I'm now almost a month behind.

nice :raritystarry::moustache: drunk princess is best princess:trollestia::facehoof:

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