How many lines should be in each episode? Opinions needed!

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Hello beautiful people! :blob_hearts:

I’m about to publish my first story called, “Her Bite.” Each episode is 4000+ lines…
Is that too many, not enough, or just right? Thoughts??

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It always depends on the coding and branching, but I’m pretty sure your episodes are long enough :slightly_smiling_face: If you want to make sure, I would suggest timing it. If that helps, my experience is that readers usually prefer 10-15 minute long episodes

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Thank you so much for the feedback, I will definitely start timing each one. :blush:

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Do you have lot’s of branching and choices?

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It definitely depends on your branching and directing. Directing can take up a lot of lines in code but only lasts 2 seconds on screen. Like @Annieways said your best bet is to time your episodes :wink:

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I wanted to add a lot more choices (since most of it is directing) so readers feel more involved but I’m afraid it might make it a bit too long. :see_no_evil:

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So true, ty! I’m going to start timing everything. :hugs:

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Choices may add loads of lines but the choice to the reader only lasts a few seconds x

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Very true, I’ll just shorten my branching then, thank you for your help! :grin:

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