Binging media is good for your soul and mind, compared to consumption in serial, on a schedule. This is not advice purely for classy media or literature- it could just as easily apply to netflix series.
If you read web serials, you'll wind up waiting for another day or week to read the next installment. This always degrades the experience and leads the audience to petty complaints- often irrelevant or based on a failure to remember the substance of previous chapters. This pollutes the serial's page with unwarranted bad reviews, often from people who have followed the fiction for a long time. They aren't idiots either, they're just reading in a dumb way.
The best way to hook readers is to get them coming back day after day for short new chapters. The best way to enjoy a story for all the effort the author puts into it is to read as much as you want of it every day and never read any other story until you're at the end. With no days and weeks of intermission to over-analyze and contemplate things from an external perspective the characters lack. To cycle in and out of immersion in a world dozens of times in a year.
The good part of binging isn't just that it is fast. It's that it is dedicated. I like it when I can focus on a piece of fiction for weeks and months. You can play semantics and say this isn't binging, sure. This is better than binging, which is still better than serialized consumption. I believe this is good for your mind. There should be less interference, less competition in your memory from tracking multiple storylines. The first time I decided to limit myself to one source of escapist fantasy, within a couple weeks I had a sustained surge of focus. I felt it strip away my neurotic hesitation, my unwillingness to act. It unlocked mental potential I hadn't known I was squandering.
This is why I advise you to consume at most one story at a time, for as long as you can. Your intellectual and creative potential will thank you.
If you read web serials, you'll wind up waiting for another day or week to read the next installment. This always degrades the experience and leads the audience to petty complaints- often irrelevant or based on a failure to remember the substance of previous chapters. This pollutes the serial's page with unwarranted bad reviews, often from people who have followed the fiction for a long time. They aren't idiots either, they're just reading in a dumb way.
The best way to hook readers is to get them coming back day after day for short new chapters. The best way to enjoy a story for all the effort the author puts into it is to read as much as you want of it every day and never read any other story until you're at the end. With no days and weeks of intermission to over-analyze and contemplate things from an external perspective the characters lack. To cycle in and out of immersion in a world dozens of times in a year.
The good part of binging isn't just that it is fast. It's that it is dedicated. I like it when I can focus on a piece of fiction for weeks and months. You can play semantics and say this isn't binging, sure. This is better than binging, which is still better than serialized consumption. I believe this is good for your mind. There should be less interference, less competition in your memory from tracking multiple storylines. The first time I decided to limit myself to one source of escapist fantasy, within a couple weeks I had a sustained surge of focus. I felt it strip away my neurotic hesitation, my unwillingness to act. It unlocked mental potential I hadn't known I was squandering.
This is why I advise you to consume at most one story at a time, for as long as you can. Your intellectual and creative potential will thank you.
