User blog:XMCL/Episode Length

Hey all,

I’m finishing up my foreign exchange in Japan and I’m anticipating my return to the US!

With Loyalty Islands on hiatus, I shall continue writing within the next week, but I want to kind of open up a thread regarding episode length.

With anything that isn’t fresh, Loyalty Islands isn’t the fresh idea it used to be for me, and I’ve dwelled a lot on new ideas and characters inspired by my experience in Japan. I promised to myself that I will finish Loyalty Islands- no matter what.

So, I want to ask- are shorter episodes acceptable? I’m thinking I’m just going to cut all the fluff and only have game-talk present in my episodes.

Obviously for me the pros are a quicker season and honestly it takes less thinking for me.

However, I don’t want the season to appear to be full of game-bots. The transitions in days and events might also be difficult.

Please, offer any advice you could give me for writing short episodes that still can pack the punch of entertainment a high quality and lengthy episode does.

Thanks and see you soon!

-XMCL