Because sometimes you want to write about love. Because sometimes you can only write about ponies. And because sometimes you're terrible about writing summaries and have read too many TAW fics so writing a summary overusing the word 'Because' sounds like a good idea.
This will be a collection of largely unconnected shipping fics. The order of a ship's appearance does not indicate any of my preferences.
Rated Teen for potential future innuendo. character and category tags set to change as necessary.
Chapters (1)
Thank you for taking the time to read my story! Please be sure to comment! especially if you notice anything wrong. Spelling, grammar, pacing, dialogue, you name it! Don't worry about sounding over critical, it's the only way I can improve.
Also I am taking suggestions for a cover image if anyone has any.
A nice little story, although, I would of liked it to be longer. Much longer.
But I think you wrapped it up pretty good for 1,500 words.
Small plot hole though, what was Twilight doing during the time that Rainbow Dash was asleep?
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Getting her balloon filled up with air and getting ready a cloud-walking spell, obviously.
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It's very good that this is your stance on this. You see, every so often I like to take a short story that's not too busy yet, and do an in-depth review of it. I'll send you a link to my comments upon your grammar and spelling through PM, as I've noticed most authors do not wish that to be too publicly displayed, and I rarely differ.
About the story though: it's short, the premises is ok, and it does what you set out for it to do, no doubt. At the same time, though, we have to agree that the story itself has no ambition, it doesn't try to be anything but a ship fic of which we have tons already, and thus it shall not achieve more than that, either.
This, however, is fine, as long as you use this experience to improve yourself, and adjust your expectations accordingly.
But I must say: you're not doing yourself any favours with the way you're planning to release your stories. People want to know exactly what they're getting into when they're clicking the link to your story. Your short and long description of the story is sadly lacking to accomplish this goal, and making this a "collection of ship fics" not only makes it so that nobody will ever know what to expect, but you are also depriving yourself of front-page spots which you can rightfully claim.
When people want to read a dash/twi fic, they'll be looking for a fic that is advertised as dash/twi, not one that is advertised as "a collection of fics". Try to keep stories separated.
Low word counts do scare off some people, though, and perhaps that's why you did it, but there's a simple solution there... write longer stories.
Also, you do need a picture. It helps. Any TwiDash pic should do ^^
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Silly me, how could of not realised?
This 'awe-dorable'
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Unahim is totally right. She was getting her balloon ready. *liarjack* Actually I originally was going to have Twilight brewing another truth potion to drink and tell her secrets but I couldn't get it to flow in a way I was happy with. Thus accidental plot hole
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I'll admit this made me laugh.
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You are a wonderful human being. You sir (or madam, I'm terrible at guessing genders over the internet) are a gentleman (or lady) and a scholar. I found your in depth review very helpful and you will see my edits shortly. Anyway on to your comments. Yes this is very much a generic ship fic, no qualms there. Its major purpose was for me to see if I could write shipping, which I apparently can more or less according to the comments and number of favorites. I never seem to be able to stretch out stories for longer word counts (in fact I'm surprised that I hit the 1,500 mark with this one) so that's why I was going to have this be a collection. Although with it's surprising length and your comments about having it be a collection of ship fics (I must admit I see and agree with your point on this) I'm thinking I might just let this be all for this story (with maybe either an epilogue or a chapter or two to fully finish Twilight's and Dash's tale) and write my future ideas as separate stories.
And of course a big thank you to everyone who favorited!
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I'm sure that, one day, you'll have an idea that's big and complicated enough to warrant multiple chapters. Until then, practising with smaller stuff should be perfectly fine ^^
The only thing you can't do is stop writing. You have the two necessary elements to become a good writer: The drive to do so, and the willingness to accept criticism where it is given, going as far as to explicitly ask for it yourself. I've seen quite a few modestly good/average writers, who I thought held great potential, but who completely freaked out and threw a hissy fit upon receiving criticism (or tried to give excuses for everything). At that point, I just turn away from their work and move on, as they will never amount to anything. Just the fact that you're not like that gives you a huge boon already.
Keep it up!
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Cute
Now only if it was longer.....
A very good story. May I, humbly, suggest your next one be a Rarijack, plz?