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Jay Wilcox's avatar

Well put. You've captured what it's like to be on Substack for any extended period of time ❤️

Happy Nielsen's avatar

The great thing about substack is that word length doesn’t matter for a serial! Screw publishing norms, give us however many words you want

Andrew Thomas's avatar

lol that’s what I was thinking but I heard this range was ideal. I was skeptical so I literally copy and pasted 3-4 of your chapters along with those from several others into scrivener and all of them were 1500-2500. It must be the sweet spot!

Happy Nielsen's avatar

I wouldn’t use mine as a standard by any means lol, but that’s nice to hear it compared to others. I guess an average chapter length is all ingrained into us somehow lol