Hello there. I'm Matt, and I'm taking this opportunity to explain why I wrote these short stories, and what the goal really is for each of them.

As a writer, I think it's harder to write a good short story than a long one. You have to economize your words, and maximize the impact of every feeling and action. Knowing that, I like to write very short stories and scenes every now and again to keep myself in practice. I did it in Six Hundred Words, and I'm doing it again here, only with a different focus and limit.

Everyone is well familiar with the Elements of Harmony by now, but as I usually do, I want to look at them from different perspectives, basically to come at the concept backwards. Not in the opposites of the Elements, because Discord already did that, but more from angles the characters have likely never thought of.

So, I'm writing stories of a single scene, and in no more than 2500 words. Every story will have a different type of perspective, and because I like stories where you have to do a little digging to find the subtext underneath the entertaining narrative, I'm not going to explicitly lay out what the point of each scene is—at least not right away. I'm sure I'll succeed to varying degrees (at least), but that's the goal. And after I do the mane6, I'm planning on possibly taking on some of the more fanon-developed background characters.

I hope you enjoy my little thought experiments into the nature of the ponies we love, and maybe it'll inspire you for that next story you want to write. Should you be inspired to write your background pony scene on this theme, let me know. I just might include it into the story!