It’s that moment, your book club date is looming (three days away!) and you’re at chapter 12 of a 40-chapter novel. You know how to solve this. You panic about the math: Will it be two weeks? Five hours? But it isn’t the content that triggers your panic, it’s the math. That is, it’s the […]

As your ebook library expands and your available reading time shrinks, you start to get anxious. On Monday, you grab a new book and feel good about yourself for an hour. But then life gets in the way. By Wednesday, you’re looking at progress bar and wondering: did I read ten percent? Or maybe it’s […]

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”) […]