Writer's Training Grounds Entries
My entries into Equestria Daily's Writer's Training Grounds. Various characters and genres that will be tagged on each individual chapter.
Prompt descriptions and links below.
Prompt #1: Not everything went as planned when Twilight undid her spell on Fluttershy. (BATS!)
Prompt #2: Manehattan leaves its hoofprint on everypony who ventures into it. (Rarity Takes Manehatten)
Prompt #3: While helping Twilight Sparkle with her genealogical research, Pinkie discovers another surprising familial connection. Pinkie heads out to investigate.
Prompt #4: "What's it like to fly?"
Prompt #5: I looked through Couch's prompts this week. All of them were terrible. I threw them out as a favor to you. Go nuts, but just make sure I'm the star, yes? - D.
Prompt #6: Author, Equestria is in peril! Assemble a team of one Mane Cast member and their foil with attitude!
Prompt #7: It's opposite day in Equestria! Write about someone swapping roles for a time.
Prompt #8: A new singing group has taken over Canterlot! Unfortunately one of their members is causing all sorts of trouble!
Prompt #9: The Cutie Mark Crusaders have learned how to mix potions, fix things, and do magic! Show how they use their new skills to contribute to pony society!
Prompt #10: Something went wrong, and now the Mane 6 are sealed on the other side of the portal! Somebreezie lets slip about an emergency exit, long forgotten... OR After safely escorting the breezies home, Fluttershy also receives a mysterious book from Seabreeze to take home with her. What she finds inside of it... OR Something went wrong, and now the Mane 6 are sealed on the other side of the portal! Somebreezie lets slip about an emergency exit, long forgotten...
Prompt #11: Years after the Flame Geyser Swamp incident, Apple Bloom readies herself for her first pie delivery mission.... OR Big Macintosh wishes chimeras were the only things he had to contend with on his delivery route. What he goes up against is far, far worse... OR Applejack decided against checking in on her sister and continued her delivery. Later, Big Macintosh and Granny Smith return to Sweet Apple Acres to see Apple Bloom doing fine, but Applejack
Prompt #12: In Equestria, there's no such thing as a "simple" rock farmer. OR While it was nice to meet Pinkie and her friends, Maud Pie must now return to her regular life. She never did let Pinkie know about her other side...
Prompt #13: Fed up of being overshadowed by others, one pony takes matters a little too far. OR Guiding the dreams of the realm is no easy task. Few realize, however, that Princess Luna has friends who help her do just that.
Prompt #14: Ponyville is a place of second chances, of forgiving and forgetting, no matter what lurks in your past... Unless you live there! Well gosh, you're just plain fed up with all that! OR Making a promise is the easy part. Keeping it, on the other hoof... OR Granny Smith should have read the side effects on the back of the tonic bottle.
Prompt #15: Learning happens in all sorts of weird and wonderful ways in Equestria, as this one pony finds out. OR Thanks to her uncanny eye for detail on the wing, Rainbow Dash glimpses something she should never have seen.
Prompt #16: Two competitors from the Equestria Games qualifiers cross paths at the Rainbow Falls Trader Exchange. Oh yes: they remember each other. OR There must always be a princess at the Rainbow Falls Trader Exchange.
Prompt #17: Another pony (not necessarily a unicorn) is somehow imbued with the Inspiration Manifestation spell. What happens? OR Spike has eaten the book of Inspiration Manifestation. It has some side effects...
Prompt #18: Describe another pony's Equestria Games experience. It can be any pony not shown competing in one of the events in the episode, and can include both the event they competed in and what happened before and after during their visit to the Crystal Empire. OR To Twilight's surprise, Spike discovers he actually can set things on fire with his mind! What happens?
Prompt #19: Tirek's brother Scorpan apparently knew Starswirl the Bearded. What happened between these two all those centuries ago? OR Tirek wasn't the only creature to escape from Tartarus when Cerberus left his post...
Prompt - Season 5 Episodes 25/26: Choose an existing character or create one of your own and set a story in one of the alternate timelines featured in the finale. You have tons of space for variety with this one; it can be about anything you like as long as it fits into one of the alternate universes Starlight's actions created.
20 Chapters:
- Prompt #1 - Change of Taste (M6, Trixie Lulamoon) [Comedy, Random] 2014-01-06 12:07:09 UTC1428
- Prompt #2 - Trust Issues (Rarity, Twilight Sparkle, Lyra Heartstrings) [Slice-of-Life] 2014-01-09 09:42:00 UTC1475
- Prompt #3 - Tricksy Genetics (M6, Trixie Lulamoon, Rainbow Blitz) [Slice-of-Life] 2014-01-13 20:14:57 UTC1892
- Prompt #4 - What is Flight? Baby Don't Kill Me (Trixie Lulamoon, Lightning Dust, Spitfire) [Slice-of-Life, Comedy] 2014-01-20 10:49:49 UTC1584
- Prompt #5 - Discord Helps (Discord, Yukito) [Random, Total Disregard for the Fourth Wall] 2014-01-27 15:48:37 UTC1805
- Prompt #6 - The Line Between Sympathy and Foolishness (Twilight Sparkle, Trixie Lulamoon) [Adventure] 2014-02-02 19:52:29 UTC3310
- Prompt #7 - I Dare You! (Diamond Tiara, Scootaloo) [Comedy, Slice-of-Life] 2014-02-10 20:37:41 UTC1977
- Prompt #8 - Unicorn Supremacy (Trixie Lulamoon, Lyra Heartstrings, Minuette, Vinyl Scratch) [Slice-of-Life] 2014-02-17 15:59:28 UTC2202
- Prompt #9 - Ponyville's MVPs (CMC, Diamond Tiara) [Slice-of-Life, Comedy] 2014-02-25 14:33:59 UTC1399
- Prompt # 10 - The Journey Home (Mane 6, Sebreeze, OCs) [Random, Comedy, Adventure] 2014-03-03 21:23:36 UTC2429
- Prompt #11 - Big Macintosh's Quest (Big Macintosh, OCs) [Random, Comedy, Adventure] 2014-03-10 22:22:33 UTC1604
- Prompt #12 - Special Delivery (Maud Pie, Trixie Lulamoon) [Adventure, Comedy, Random] 2014-03-17 10:54:04 UTC3764
- Prompt #13 - The Case of the Abducted Scootaloo (CMC, Twist, Diamond Tiara) [Comedy, Random, Mystery] 2014-03-24 11:36:16 UTC2475
- Prompt #14 - Magical Miracle Cure (Granny Smith) [Random, Comedy] 2014-03-31 21:19:49 UTC1541
- Prompt #15 - I Spy... A MURDER! (Rainbow Dash, Twilight Sparkle, Spike) [Random, Mystery] 2014-04-07 19:33:22 UTC2019
- Prompt #16 - Race for the Record (Gilda, Lightning Dust) [Comedy, Random] 2014-04-21 18:02:12 UTC2881
- Prompt #17 - Origin of Chaos (OC, Discord) [Tragedy] 2014-04-28 14:06:45 UTC2877
- Prompt #18 - Equestria Games Junior Division (Alula, Diamond Tiara, Silver Spoon, Zippoorwhill) [Comedy, Slice-of-Life] 2014-05-06 18:32:23 UTC2878
- Prompt #19 - One Step at a Time (OC, Maud Pie, Igneous Rock) [Random, Comedy, Romance] 2014-05-12 21:03:12 UTC1391
- Prompt - Season 5 Episodes 25/26: A Mare on a Mission (Trixie, Cadance, OC) [Action, Adventure] 2015-12-01 16:42:47 UTC3317