So I usually have roughly 1,000 lines of dialogue, and then code. Since coding takes so many lines, it doesn’t appear long for the viewer and many lines of code can be combined I don’t like to measure by lines.
I try to measure my episodes by minutes. So I put out chapters that were 5-7 min long. To me, that’s a perfectly acceptable amount of time. But that story got featured and was broadcasted to a larger audience who asked me to make chapters longer. I couldn’t of course since I had just completed that story, but for future reference, I learned that the general consensus is roughly 10 min long for an episode chapter.
Some readers prefer 10-15 min, and some prefer 5-10 min, but I’ve noticed that 10 min is roughly the common denominator.
What I do is time myself reading the story, and truly read the dialogue. I mean like read out loud (or whisper it to yourself). This will make you slow down and truly read it. While you’re doing this, time yourself with a stop watch. When I did this I figured out which chapters needed more time and which ones I could cut back on.
If you can’t figure out what to put in a chapter and want to make a gem choice, make a random dialogue scene between characters. You can put it for however many gems you decide and make your story longer.
You can do it!