So the challenge is to write between 250-10000 words, I will most likely be leaning towards fewer, though 250 may be too short. It's like with art a really great artist can paint a large beautiful painting but also only use a couple of strokes to convey a message, the amateur will use a few but still require a lot of faff to get their point across.

As I am new to the show (halfway through season 5) The writing theme I can only choose is a conversation between two ponies. So my thinking is to try and establish two characters, nailing down some good backstory, characteristics and personality. This way I know my characters and how they will interact in a given situation, it seems a bit excesses for a short story but I am not going into tonnes of detail just enough to make it feel natural, to me at least.

One character will be my OC, plain and simple I can flesh out my OC as well as work on the story - win-win. I am vaguely aware of my OCs personality and backstory as he mirrors me in a way but is more fun loving and care free, something that is harder to achieve irl. He has a name, a gender so no thinking required there.

The second character will be female, reason: I have a plan to base it off of a real life encounter I had will a close friend of mine regarding MLP and my enjoyment of it, however this will be set in the actual MLP universe, sort of self analysis of the setting. I came up with a nice name: Sugar Plum it fits in the naming convention, similar to the apple family except the plum family. Also it is close to Christmas so it's on my mind.

So far that's all I've got, basic plot idea, characters and plan of action (sort of). I will elaborate on the plot when I think I am happy to as I won't be retelling the whole encounter word for word so needs tweaking. First report will probably be adding a few more details to the characters. I don't know if basing the story mostly on real world encounters will be good as it is not specifically MLP, however I will be using the features of the MLP universe in my favour, hoping for it to be comedic to.