Regarding the eBook size, that's the approach I'm taking with a serie I'm working on at the moment.
I set myself a limit of 50 pages per volume, the eBook is highly focused on one subject and does it well (hopefully). I found two main advantages with this approach :
- The first one is that I have a short attention span and it allows me to write a page here and there, as the focus is on one subject it's much easier to just drop a draft, come back later, format it and add it to the overall. I do that very often, mainly in my morning commute in the tube.
- The second one is that it doesn't require me to invest 6 months (or even more) of my time on a huge overtake (I started like that, but after 6months of work and being barely half way, I changed the approach and split the work in smaller pieces), the first ebook took me a bit more than a month to write and format, as I had quite a few things to figure out, now I'm two weeks in the second ebook, and I'm almost done.
I set myself a limit of 50 pages per volume, the eBook is highly focused on one subject and does it well (hopefully). I found two main advantages with this approach :
- The first one is that I have a short attention span and it allows me to write a page here and there, as the focus is on one subject it's much easier to just drop a draft, come back later, format it and add it to the overall. I do that very often, mainly in my morning commute in the tube.
- The second one is that it doesn't require me to invest 6 months (or even more) of my time on a huge overtake (I started like that, but after 6months of work and being barely half way, I changed the approach and split the work in smaller pieces), the first ebook took me a bit more than a month to write and format, as I had quite a few things to figure out, now I'm two weeks in the second ebook, and I'm almost done.