I’ve been a shitty writer recently, which is to say, I haven’t been doing a lot of writing. That covers quantity.
Imagine my surprise when I saw a spike in traffic over the last few weeks and traced it back to a witheringly succinct critique of my blog in a comment thread. Googling the commenter’s name led me to a writer I’ve probably got no proper business eliciting an opinion from.
So I sent a very nice thank you note.
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In retrospect, it was probably just some troll using his name. Too bad. A good kick in the pants from someone who knows how and when to give one is great medicine.