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Discussion on: Long article, or many small ones. What do you prefer?

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Pragmatic Maciej

Thanks for such long opinion. I am thinking how to split my future series, generally my question is about article dispersion, what is preferable.

My personal take is short articles, as I see that I cannot go through some longer ones, mostly because limited time, and secondly because story is just not interesting enough in longer term, and it is hard to continue to the end.

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Practicing Developer

It seems like if in doubt, small is better simply because it is easier to go small->big than it is to plot an oversized frame for your story and then need to fill in all the gaps later.

But don't overemphasize the question of ideal length, just try things out and see what works for you and your readers, and let your work evolve over time based on what you learn.