When you start reading a new Wattpad series, you have no idea how much time it will take. Every reader takes a gamble. Will this be an afternoon read, a quick distraction while eating lunch? Or will it be a full weekend journey? In many ways, that depends on what we think of when we […]

Write less; read more. Before worrying about the volume of what you’re going to write, decide how long each chapter will be. Most serial writers chooses a haphazard number of words and then get derailed by real life. When life throws you off track, having a structural limit (i.e., “I’ll publish X chapters per week”) […]

You’ve got a couple thousand words down on a chapter and all of a sudden you can’t think where to take your character for another dozen pages. That’s what panic looks like: at first, it’s more of a feeling of losing steam; later it becomes a sense of desperation, a desperate attempt at drama, which […]

“Traffic spikes are one thing; time on page data measures attention. When traffic jump up, but time on page plunges, that tells you readers have arrived, scanned briefly and departed. The reason is there is no instant payoff. For writers working in a digital format, knowing how far down someone scrolls before exiting is crucial […]