Even If I Only Had 10 Readers,

Avatar Is A Total Nerd Thing, And Yet Our Popular Culture Has Somehow Made All That Stuff Acceptable.

I Enjoy The Opportunity To Use Swear Symbols. The Reader Reads Into Them Something Worse Than What You Normally Would Have. They Work As This Outburst Of Incoherent Anger. I've Found Ways To Write Around Swearing That Are Much More Effective, Rather Than Going For What Someone Really Would Say.

Even If I Only Had 10 Readers, I'd Rather Do The Book For Them Than For A Million Readers Online.

It's Hard To Tell If Anyone's Interested In Reading A Serialized Story. But It's Interesting To Put In A Cliffhanger Each Week. That Was Popular In Old Comic Strips. They'd Write A Weekend Story Different From The Daily Strip. So People Follow One Story Day To Day, And A Separate Story On Weekends. If You Read Them, You Think "i'll Read Two More." Then You're Like "i Gotta Find Out!" And You Read 500 More.

I Have Cultivated A Little Crew Of People Whose Opinions I Understand. It's Like The Way You'd Follow Certain Film Critics Because You Know What Their Criteria Are, And You May Not Agree With Them, But You Can Glean From Their Opinion How You Will Feel About A Film.