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Six Months of Daily Posting on Medium.

Here’s what I learned.

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I’ve now been on Medium for half a year. My first story was published on 16th February 2022, and you can see it below:

Writing a LitRPG novel – where to start?

As you might guess from the title of that article, my initial aim here was to share advice for authors, with a particular focus on fantasy and LitRPG novels.

Since then, things have shifted in various ways. I still publish a lot of writing advice, but also much more of my own fiction than before.

Lesson 1: Don’t try to stick to your original plan for Medium. Instead, adapt to what the readers on the platform want.

And so, that’s the first thing I’ve learned. I’ve seen it from many other newbies, too. People come in thinking that one thing will work, but they are new to the platform. They don’t understand how things are around here.

You are going to have much more long-term success on Medium if you adapt to the…