First lesson (on good dialogue). Ask away.

So.

In writing the next chapter of Is This It (which I ended up scraping half of, then all of, then restoring half of again), I ended up taking a few small...writing distractions(?) that mostly never got finished.

The one that I did finish was Under The Streetlights, but this blog is all about the ones that didn't.

Neither have titles, but both start with 'Rarity'. So, firstly we have:

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So.

This one doesn't even have a title, but I think I had a good idea going here. I took the liberty of titling the blog post with what should have been the heading.

Anyway, another abandoned idea ahoy:

Rainbow Dash runs an apple black-market in the school cafeteria.

Applejack doesn’t know this.

Rarity wants to unload her week’s earnings of gossip on Applejack.

It doesn’t end well.

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So.

Every so often, my mind will string together a few words or an idea, and I jot it down to use later.

Later never comes, in my experience.

Instead, I go through my files months later and see a small document with a nondescript (note: I wanted to say indescript, but apparently that's not a word) title and, upon reading it, think a variety of thoughts ranging from, "Hey why can't I be this creative anymore" to "What was this supposed to be in the first place why am I like this?".

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