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The Grand Galloping Gala is tomorrow night, and Discord gets to chose a surprise band for the gala. Things get crazy when Discord decides to bring the Rainbooms to Equestria for the show without noticing a thing. How will things go for the Rainnbooms and the gala?

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I remember seeing this fic on fanfiction.net. It was a fun read then and will be a fun read now.

Okay… ow… :facehoof: Majorly flat telling of a chapter there.

First thing that caught my eye, you spent about a quarter to a third of the chapter literally telling us how the girls were dressed. In a word, don't. One, the way you were doing it was flat as heck, two it's telling, description is one thing, but I've found that unless someone massively changes their look, particularly for a short period, it's better to throw things in and let the image built in the reader's mind.

Case in point from one of my fics:

White light flashed through her vision, blinding her long enough that she managed to slam something into what felt like a wall, sharp bolts of pain flashing up her snout as she stumbled backwards with a yelp. Something thick and solid got under her feet, causing more pain as she stepped on it, falling backwards with another yelp.

Landing with a heavy thud on her back, she blinked up at the ceiling for a moment, trying to work out what had just happened. She had been getting up to go to the bathroom when she had been blinded by white light from nowhere.

"Cait?" someone called from outside the room. It took her a moment to place the voice, it sounded like her sister's, though it sounded like someone had run it through some sort of sound editing program to make it deeper. "What happened? Are you okay in there?"

"I… I think so," Cait responded, her own voice sounding deeper and rougher than it had the night before, as if she had spent it drinking, smoking or both. "Just walked into a wall," she continued, blinking at the sound of her own voice. Sitting up, she frowned, giving herself a quick once over before freezing. Instead of normal, tanned skin, she had scales, ones that started blue near where they grew from her body fading to purple.

"Good," her sister's voice was closer now, just outside the door, "because we've got bigger problems." The door swung open, revealing a large, winged lizard that ducked into the room and stood, deep blue crest scales scraping the ceiling. "I… well shit."

That startled a snicker out of Cait. It was so much Georgina's way of speaking that even the impossibility of it coming from a dragon's mouth told her just who the blue-to-purple dragon was. "That's… that's one way of putting it, Gina."

Georgina nodded, moving to flop on the bed, making it creak alarmingly. "The scales aren't the end of it either. I've been awake long enough to find there's nobody around on any of the five floors we can get to. Lift's dead, lights are dead, hell everything needing power is dead, the dust's a few inches thick in places and there's collapses all over. We can't get down from here with the stairs either." She groaned, leaning forwards to run her hands through her crest.

Note the highlighted bit, the reason readers know about her scales is because she looks herself over and sees them, before that, apart from something on the ground that's attached and a snout, they've not initially got much, but it builds up rather than out and out saying that Cait's a blue-to-purple bipedal dragon out the gate, though with Gina since we're seeing Cait's view, she sees a winged lizard with a similar colour scheme and we see it through her.

Another point, scene changes, most people are fine seeing a stack of three to seven symbols between scenes, unless you're specifically going for something that doesn't do that, then most of the time we don't need to know exactly what's going on, we can usually pick it up through the interactions in the scene.

Also, please don't start sentences with 'then', it jars people since 'then' is usually a mid-sentence bridge.

I was typing this reply up, then my dad came in looking for one of the cats.

Just as a quick review, try comparing this section where things actually kick off in the chapter to my own version:

They are all sitting on the table getting ready to eat. They are also getting ready to have some fun.

“At toast to our great gig at the football game with Twilight Sparkle as a new member,” Rainbow says proudly raising her soda for a toast.

Twilight cheeks blush, she started to become friends with Sunset Shimmer and the girls ever since she transfer to Canterlot High from Crystal Prep after the Friendship Games. Since then she been hanging out with girls. Three weeks after the games they ask Twilight if she can be part of their band, she says yes and she became one of the vocal singers with Fluttershy and Sunset Shimmer. The girls also been giving her some pointer of being in the bands, even Flash Sentry and Trixie had been giving her some pointer and some practice being in a band. There is only one thing she can’t get out of her mind, which is the fact that she met her double a few days after the games and it really took her by surprise. Plus she is very interested about Sunset Shimmer and her past in this other she did want to ask her about it but wasn’t sure if she wants to talk about it.

“Girls you didn’t have to throw a party for me.” Twilight says while blushing and adjusting her glasses.

Vs:

Sitting at a posh wooden table, a rainbow-haired young woman raises a glass to her five companions. "A toast," she says, drawing their attention from the food laid out in front of them, "to our great gig at the football game with Twilight Sparkle as our new member."

Violet cheeks flushing a darker purple, the dark haired girl ducks back slightly at the praise from her band-mate. "Girls," she says uncomfortably, "you didn't have to throw a party for me."

The rainbow-haired girl snorts softly, watching as Twilight plays with her glasses, mentally comparing the human and pony versions of the Rainboom's lead singer, even though it had only been three weeks since the girl had joined them. Around the table, she sees the others raise their glasses, the redhead amongst them taking a moment to wrap a purple sleeved arm around the nervous girl, Twilight's actions more reminiscent of her old friend Fluttershy than the confident pony Twilight.

Notice I've cut a lot out, focusing on Dash's view, but not saying her name yet, even then in about three paragraphs I've established a few things, one Rainbow while unnamed, is rainbow-haired, while Twilight has dark hair and violet skin, I've also worked in a little about the band and that Sunset (redhead) is wearing at least purple sleeves and Twi's acting more like Fluttershy than Princess Twilight. I also show they're sitting for a meal through actions more than outright saying that they're sitting to eat. As things go on, I can imp in snippets that show the girls and what they're wearing, along with where they are, or even have someone say it in the story which works better, the reader knows through the characters.

good story so far theo twilight likely tells sunset things that happen in her life so she would have informed sunset of discords change

thoe a easy solution to that is she does know from twilight but does not want to risk her friends lives on 2nd hand information (even if it comes from princess twilight)

I liek to see Discord get close to Human Fluttershy liek he close with pony fluttershy, maybe makes a comment they have their own twin sister of sorts.

the reunion with susnet adn celestia should have far more emotion to it than that honestly it should get its own chapter

I downvoted because it does a poor job of holding my interest (despite being a concept that should have me riveted) and it has far too many flaws.

7300880 Can I please get a link to that story? It sounds really good.

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Here's the link of the story and it should be on the fanfiction website. Hope you enjoy the rest of the story.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11604633/1/The-Grand-Chaos-Gala

"Hey Sunset since spring break is coming up soon, why do you come visit them during that time." Human Sunset says.

I think you made an error here.

I'm going to be Applejack here and be totally honest with you. This story could be really good, but the insane amount of grammatical errors in this story makes it totally unreadable. And because of that, I can't give this story a favorite, nor will I give it a like or dislike.

If you went back and either edited this to fix the obvious grammatical errors in it or got somebody to do it for you, this might be really good someday. But sadly, right now, that day is not today.

I don't understand why Night Glider and Sugar Belle are in this. Is it because Rebecca Shoichet voices those two as well?

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