With the posting of Episode Three on Monday, I’ve reached the halfwayish point in my novel release project. (If you are just now joining us, it’s not too late to start in on the first three episodes. If you’re speedy you’ve still got time to read all of them before Episode Four drops…)

The big headline for what I’ve learned up to this point in the project is this:

Putting the novel into episode form has revolutionized my plotting and editing processes.

That’s a little hyperbolic, but stick with me. When I did my first chapter sorting into episodes, I arranged the chapters so that major plot points and/or cliffhangers would happen at the end of episodes. For the rest of the novel chapters, I just made sure the word count was approximately the same for each episode, around 10-11k. All done, right?
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