I aim for the 25-35 minute range on my podcasts. This is primarily because any longer than that and I would go insane. I only have so much free time, and my girlfriend claims a fair chunk of it. I’ve already basically cut out video games entirely in the past six months to make room for the podcast (in fairness, I was already starting to tire of them, this is much more fulfilling. But I would love to play Mass Effect 3 and I haven’t even picked it up yet). It’s also a happy coincidence that A) the average commute is about this length, and B) most HPMoR chapters are about this length.<\/p>\n
I’ve found that 4000-5000 words fits this nicely. More than that and the episode runs a bit long. Significantly more and I have to break it up into two parts.<\/p>\n
Chapter 63 is over 14,500<\/strong> words. I was hoping to do it in two parts, but I was defeated. Therefore 63 will be my first three-part chapter. I wish it weren’t so, but I am a mere mortal and I have to hold down a full-time job too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I aim for the 25-35 minute range on my podcasts. This is primarily because any longer than that and I would go insane. I only have so much free time, and my girlfriend claims a fair chunk of it. I’ve already basically cut out video games entirely in the past\u2026 Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-production-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":552,"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}