Octavia had it all. Fame, money, respect, and a warm home centered in the lower district of Canterlot. However, a series of unfortunate events sends everything she had come to know into a crumbling nightmare and lands the talented mare on the streets of the Equestrian capital. On the verge of starvation, an old friend convinces her to move out to a little village, known as Ponyville where she can rent out the spare cottage.
Octavia leaps at the chance gathering what little she has left. Little does she know she has a roommate. Not only must she now balance between recovering her lost fame, her weekly cello lessons for the fillies and colts of Ponyville, but she must also overcome the obstacle of living with a roomtmate who by her very essence is the polar opposite of her.
How will it end for this talented mare, and what secrets shall be uncovered? The future is unknown, but one thing is certain. It will be musical.
(Note, tags may be updated as the story progresses. However, it will remain within the teen age group. No clop for you.)
7/15/14 Yay! New cover! The other one was nice, but it was a little overused. Hurray for new images!
This needs a little editing but other than that it's good.
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yes, I know it needs editing. Sadly i dont have the time to do a full run through and get every little nickpick detail and grammatical error. I seriously need a good editor.
I can understand the pain of the gray one. Filthy american music blaring into your ears? I would kill myself before I allowed that to happen.
You are stupid for doing this. You should be writing for yourself, not just because you want to be famous here. If you keep writing good stories, you will get noticed.
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Firstly, forgive me if i come off as somewhat hostile at all during this comment. I never expected the fimfic community to be so strong and supportive about new content, particularly, the content I create. For the fact it shattered everything I've come to think about art and fiction boards I'm truly astounded.
Secondly, I've been writing fanfictions for the last 5 years from everything ranging from Starfox, to Spyro the dragon, Skyrim, and hell now FIM. In those 5 years every-time I would put out a fic of any length no matter how well it was written, no matter how many editors I went through, it would always end up the same way. Unnoticed, falling to the bottom of the fiction bins.
I always write for myself, however, I feel the need to share the things I write about with others such as this fic here. I have so many ideas planned for any fic I write but even if I reach the final chapter and no one reads it, how am I to know what I can improve? How do I know how to beat my previous fics with new and better ideas? Its the same with my artwork. How am I supposed to improve if no one is willing to read it and tell me if I did a decent job, or if my fic is utter rubbish?
Do I want to get famous? In all honesty no I don't. I don't care if I amount to anything. I just to be able to weave stories for readers to enjoy, and have them actually enjoy reading it.
I apologize about the author's note, I do. But because I have never had more than a few kind words on most of my writings, i never know how to improve, and how to weave a better story.
4517653 Wow this comment was really nice and sincere, I expected more hostile things toward me
Anyways. As you might have noticed, this site is much different than fanfiction.co or deviantart. This site has a system that really helps new authors get on their feet. Heck I joined in January, hardly posted anything, and still have 63 followers.
What I'm trying to say is, anything you write and post on this site has the chance of blowing up and going viral. All you need is a good idea, some hard work, and a captivating description.
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Honestly, getting hostile over a constructive comment is rather childish. I don't see why some people get so angry and aggressive over a comment.
I'm getting off topic here...As I said I normally write for myself, but if the community is willing to throw me a bone now and then then I will be more than happy to weave this tale with revised enthusiasm
4517761 You would be surprised at how many people get pissed when I tell them what they did was wrong
Very good story you have coming along. I'm quite interested to see how this progresses.
4535956 Thank you for the kind comment.
While it may take me a fair while to write it all, It's my hope that the fic meets the exceptions my co-writer and I have for it. All I need now is a top notch editor to help find and correct grammatical errors and this story will (with a large amount of luck) be my best piece of literature work since my ill fated Lylat chronicles.
wow awesome my friend new chapter
Oh cover art, we meet again...
Story = great.
Want for updates = yep.
4585944 From your comment I assume you've seen this cover before. *sigh*
In either case, I plan to have at least two more chapters out before my vacation sometime in September. Also note that my grammar is still catching up from my year long hiatus, so it's my hope that as the story progresses it will improve in overall quality.
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FIrstly, don't get me wrong, I do like the cover art, but I've seen it too many times on this site, and most of the time completely unrelated to the story that it's attached to.
Secondly, updates! Even if the times are not set in stone, at least I have something to look forward to!
Thirdly, Grammar! I didn't see any glaringly obvious mistakes, so any grammatical errors would require me to nit-pick the chapter for anything and everything. If flows well, and your writing allows this, so I think that you're OK!
I'm loving what I'm reading so far and to be honest I don't normally read that often so keep up the good work
4734003 I'm glad someone has taken an genuine interest in this fic. If luck holds out the next chapter will be soon.
4839378 Soon.
4877422 No definitive ETA for now. With luck it'll be faster than the last.
OK; the business with Blueblood is really dark and sounds like something that really needs to be taken care of, especially since you more or less imply that he is having ponies killed and unjustly imprisoned. The fact that he tries to bars her access to the princess should not be a problem anymore since she is in ponyville and can have Twilight send a letter to the Celestia directly, and even if Twilight and spike are not there she should still be able to receive the letters or audience of the other elements. Also; why would Celestia allow Blueblood to be come this corrupt anyway? Even if she and her sister are vary busy with their work you would think that a royal decree effectively exiling someone (especially one connected to a well known royal institution) should catch her notice.
Also, Vinyl is a giant bitch.
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Firstly, Octavia has her reasons why she can't go to twilight or the princesses. That will be explained later. Why blue bloods gets away with it, he masked his actions from the eyes and ears of both Luna and Celestia.
Secondly, you hold valid concerns. These plot-holes I'm very happy you found them so damn quickly. However, we can't say they're plot-holes because we don't have an entire story written yet. What you see as plot-holes now are merely unanswered questions that will be answered as the story progresses.
Chapters really are a joy to read.. looking forward to more
awesome man nice new chapter looking forward for more soon
Why was I thinking CMC Hazmat? (Yay!)
I could see Rarity phrasing
better as
Props for understanding the uses of a breaker box.