Welcome to Thirty Minute Pony Stories! Here, we provide prompts for everyone to write a story in thirty minutes, handled by the various moderators. These story prompts will primarily involve shipping, but may run the gamut of any kind of genre, including adventure, action, comedy, drama, and anything in between. As this is a safe for work blog, all story prompts and all submissions must be safe for work.

Prompts will be posted once per day. Each prompt will have at least an hour’s warning before it is posted, so everyone following can prepare and be ready to write. Once posted, a prompt will take submissions for up to six hours after it has been initially posted, at which point no more submissions for that prompt will be taken. Submissions will be posted after this cut-off, with each submission being given a comment by the mod posting the submission.

What’s this about a time limit?

This is a 30-minute writing challenge, so plan to be finished within that limit. You’re on the honor system, so just remember: what would Fluttershy think?

If you run a little long, don’t worry about it. Finish up as close to 30 minutes as you can, and next time, plan better. But most importantly … set your virtual pen to that virtual paper! The whole point here is for all of us to get into the practice of writing more, so please interpret all of these rules in a way that encourages you to actually participate—because that’s what we all want.

The mods are:

Kyronea

RWL

Kaitlyn of Babysealburritos

Donny’s Boy

Bombastic Bookman

Norse Pony

Alexander Krizak

Obscure Reference

Professor Piggy

Obselescence

Questions about individual prompts should be labeled with the title of the prompt, to make it easier for the mods to answer them.



With all that said, the first prompt will be posted later today. Please enjoy, and happy writing to everyone!

Other important resources:

Donny explains it all: how to correctly submit your stories

A delightful discussion regarding rules over tea and scones

New rule for submissions word count maximum