Reading Format (Patreon)

Some thoughts going through my head as I work on Ch 12 today. As some of you are aware, partway through writing the series I decided to change my release format from small chapters averaging 5k words, to large chapters, running an average of 25k words.

Before year's end, I'm going to clean out a lot of the non-story-related update posts, and have all of the story posted up on Patreon for ease-of-reading. Should I break up the large chapters into smaller ones so that it can be read as a serial, easy-to-finish a portion and with a wealth of more chapters to read? Or should I organize the small chapters into larger installments that require an hour or more of time for a reader to sit down and work through?

As people who've already suffered through reading my story, your opinions and preferences on format matter the most to me. The story seems to take well to splitting, as I have good hooks throughout the material that make for good closers/openers, but it lends just as well to larger format reading some of the smaller chapters together in a batch.

Serial Format:

• I leave the first six chapters as-is.
• Split Ch 7 into two chapters.
• Split Ch 8 into six chapters.
• Leave Ch 9 as-is.
• Split Ch 10 into four chapters.
• Split Ch 11 into seven or eight chapters.
• Leave bonus chapters as-is.

Large Installment Format:

• Combine the first seven chapters into a single chapter.
• Leave Ch 8 as-is.
• Combine Ch 9 and Ch 10 into a single chapter.
• Leave Ch 11 as is.
• Combine bonus chapters into a single chapter.