I know I do. They're lovely, if arbitrary, bits of trivia that remind me that my stories are still finding new readers. Today, Inscape got its 2,000th like, which gives me all sorts of warm fuzzies. (For comparison, consider that Petriculture, the story that precedes it in the Petriculture Cycle, has nearly twice the number of total views but currently has slightly less than 2,500 likes.)

As you may have noticed, quite a few people like my writing. Not surprisingly, I occasionally get PMs asking me for writing advice. I generally try to respond as best I can, hopefully with something a bit more substantial than the standard Writing Tip cliches (get a prereader/editor, read, make sure you have an ending before you begin, etc.), and if they have some work posted on FIMFiction already, I'll take a look and try to give helpful feedback, but I've never really had a fresh idea to

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