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I've got a story in my head that I'm thinking of writing for my blog. But its much longer than my usual short and sweet stories and will be several (short) chapters long.
My dilemma is, do I publish the whole thing in one go, or chapter by chapter with a break between.
If I publish it bit by bit, how long do you think would be a good gap? Daily, every couple of days or maybe even a week.
I want to keep people coming back for the next chapter, but don't want to leave it so long that they forget about it.
 

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I've got a story in my head that I'm thinking of writing for my blog. But its much longer than my usual short and sweet stories and will be several (short) chapters long.
My dilemma is, do I publish the whole thing in one go, or chapter by chapter with a break between.
If I publish it bit by bit, how long do you think would be a good gap? Daily, every couple of days or maybe even a week.
I want to keep people coming back for the next chapter, but don't want to leave it so long that they forget about it.
You could do it all as one article and then use a 'table of contents' plugin that would let people click to 'chapter 2' or chapter 5 etc further down the page
 

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I've never heard of a table of contents plugin. I'll have to google it.
The first chapter is written. I want to get the whole thing down reasonably quickly before I have a senior moment and forget what I was going to write about, or lose the plot - literally ;)
 
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Dickens used to publish a most of his stuff in weekly instalments.

He seems to have done alright out of it.
 

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I think weekly if there is enough content! X

It's looking like each installment will be around the size of the normal short stories that I write, so probably about 5 minutes to read each part. I'm thinking any more than that and people will get bored. It's a very bare bones story, no padding to slow it down - I'm not that good ;)
 
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