Lesson learned.

Dear Princess Celestia,

The act of writing and posting a new story will do absolutely nothing to promote the reading of any previously existing stories.

Go figure.

Comments

[Swirls]

LIES! ALL L IES!

[GroaningGreyAgony]

Also, don't forget that the 100k word novel that you've been pouring all your creative energy into for months will never get as many likes as the thousand-word bagatelle you knocked off in one lazy hour.

Say "La vie."

[Wonderstruck]

tis false. Your junk mail fic was soooooooooooooooooo good, i expect another one. Meanwhile, i shall read your other stories

[Skywriter]

Followers typically don't go back, it's true. Sometimes I wish some of my stories were written later when more people would notice them.

[Estee]

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If even you're going through it, I think we can consider this one Spike-mailed and filed in the Canterlot Archives.

Lesson Negative One?

(Wait. If they were written later, you wouldn't have been able to use them for building up your readership and -- okay, I have not slept enough for this level of paradox.)

[Skywriter]

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Oh, yes. I'm blessed to have a number of followers, but the unexpected side effect of someone (Bradel) writing fanfic about one of my early pieces (which I then linked to in a new blog entry) was that I got a spike of traffic on my own old story, which my new readers hadn't read until I brought their attention to it. There's just so much content on this site. You can hardly keep up with it going forward, much less backtracking.

[Lurks-no-More]

Sometimes it does! I got caught up in "Triptych", and ended up reading all the rest of your stuff.