Need Ideas for Fics? Here's Some Writing Prompts · 1:28am Mar 17th, 2013
Sometimes we just don't have any more ideas for fics. So, to help you out, I've developed some writing prompts that you can use to overcome your writer's block. Enjoy!
1. Write a scene showing a stallion and a mare arguing over the stallion's friendship with a former marefriend. Do not mention the marefriend, the stallion, the mare, or the argument.
2. Write a short scene about Twilight Sparkle at a lake, with trees and crap. Throw some birds in there, too.
3. Choose your favorite historical figure and imagine if he/she had been led to greatness by the promptings of an invisible pegasus living behind his or her right ear. Write a story from the point of view of this pegasus. Where did it come from? What are its goals? Use research to make your story as accurate as possible.
4. Write a story that ends with the following sentence: Rainbow Dash brushed the sand from her nose, took a last, wistful look at the now putrefying cat, and stepped into the hot-air balloon.
5. A wasp called the tarantula hawk reproduces by paralyzing tarantulas and laying its eggs into their bodies. When the larvae hatch, they devour the still living spider from the inside out. Isn't that messed up? Write a short story about how messed up that is.
6. Imagine if your favorite character from 19th-century fiction had been born without thumbs. Then write a short story about him or her journeying to Equestria.
7. Write a story that begins with a man throwing handfuls of $100 bills from a speeding car, and ends with a young girl punching Applebloom.
8. A mare and stallion are meeting in a restaurant to finalize the terms of their impending divorce. Write the scene from the point of view of a royal guard snorting cocaine outside the royal castle.
9. Popular music is often a good source of writing inspiration. Rewrite Bob Dylan’s “Visions of Johanna” as the season 3 premiere of MLP.
10. Write a short scene in which one character reduces another to uncontrollable sobs without touching him or speaking.
11. Your main character finds a box of scorched hair with a striking resemblance to Fluttershy's. Whose is it? How did it get there?
12. A man has a terrifying dream in which he is being sawn in half. He wakes to find himself in Ponyville, covered in peanut butter and clinging to a door; a hotel keycard is clenched in his teeth. Write what happens next.
So doing a few of these.