I finally heard back from Equestria Daily

I'll just post the email here. SPOILERS for How Equestria Was Made:

Feo Takahari:

Thank you for submitting "How Equestria Was Made" to Equestria Daily. I found a lot to like here, but I have a couple of questions I want to pose. I'll ask you please to think about these questions, see if they're anything you want to address with a little rewriting, then resubmit the story as "back from Mars" through the regular story submission process.
I was surprised at the end of the story when Annie vanishes bodily into the snow globe. Do the two go into the globe completely like that every time? From the way Polly seems to wake up on the floor of the attic at the end of chapter one, I'd been thinking they left their bodies behind. Either way works, I think, but it should be one way or the other: either they always go into the globe bodily, or Annie leaves her body in her bed at the end and never returns to it.
In chapter two, their mom says it's OK that they broke the vase, but then she says it's really their father's. In the next paragraph, though, their father's sitting right there, and he doesn't mention the vase at all. It's just a loose end easily fixed: maybe their father's the one who says he always thought it was ugly?
When Polly finds the other reports about the snow globe, I thought they were all happening at the same time as the story. It's only just now as I'm re-reading chapter six that I'm realizing they're from earlier. Could you add a quick phrase saying that the oldest of the stories dates back a hundred years while the newest one is from ten years ago or whatever sort of time frame you want it to be? It'll keep people like me from getting confused. :)
When Annie starts slicing herself to pieces to keep Nightmare Moon from getting out into the human world, the story says, "That part of Annie's soul was gone." Except in the next chapter, it turns out that that isn't exactly true, the way her soul seems to have been dispersed throughout Equestria. So could you maybe state it a little more ambiguously? More like the parts of her soul puffing to dust and swirling away?
Thank you again for submitting the story, and I look forward to seeing it come back again.

Pre-reader AugieDog

My first thought: I probably ought to make a blog post about this, since I'll be making slight changes to the story.

My second thought: wait, AugieDog? Holy cow, AugieDog liked my story!

Comments

[Rakni]

Oh, hey! Congratulations on at least partial success! I hope you get on EQD, you deserve it!

[Razalon The Lizardman]

Well, I never said I was the best editor/pre-reader out there.

Still, if you want any more help with this be sure to ask, I'll make the time to help you again.

~The lizardman is happy to see Feo so happy

[my_little_medic]

Well done! You definitely deserve it with such an amazing story!