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Before I started self-publishing novels, I wrote serialized genre fiction on a Web site for role-playing games. I posted several million words across a number of stories over a course of about seven years; by the time I stopped I had a few hundred regular readers. Most of those readers were just the sort that Steven described, folks who dropped by the read my posts before they started work or on their lunch breaks. The positive support I got from them is what convinced me I could take a shot at writing novels.
A lot of my earlier sales and reviews came from those readers, who followed me over to Smashwords. I also found that writing serials improved my writing considerably; basically every installment had to be like a self-contained story of its own, so I learned a lot about pacing, plot, and writing action-packed scenes.
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