One interesting occurrence this week: a reader came through, slogged through all four of the TwiBrush Tales, upthumbed the lot, and left a comment on the first of them to the effect that the purely arbitrary calendar which I had conjured up didn't make a great deal of sense to him.

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About a year ago, I posted a note on Facebook that contained links to all my stories here. It received one like, so I know at least one person saw it.

I was in One Of Those Moods this evening, so for the sheer Tartarus of it I posted the first paragraph of The Sparkle Chronicles and sat back to see what would happen. The likes rolled in, along with "When can I read the rest of it?" We shall see what (if anything) comes of this.

I am always fascinated by Bad Horse's blog posts, and this one is no exception. I zeroed in on this particular statistic:

The number of people who read chapter 2 is usually 40% to 70% of the number who read chapter 1. The exceptions to this rule are not good stories, but very, very bad stories. For this gem, for instance, it's 93%.

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At some point today, The Sparkle Chronicles got its 2000th view. I am loath to attribute this feat to its inherent brilliance or anything like that, but apparently somepony out there likes it. (Those of you who don't -- well, thanks for coming by, and have a nice day.)