You can say that I inherited a form and squeezed it tighter. A. First, to build readership, to get people to return to the habit of reading the paper every day. That helps fulfill our mission - and it's good for business. I find it impossible to write nut graphs for them. When readers meet narrative, a new transaction takes place.
Readers bring their autobiographies to the experience of the story.
A. More reading would happen. Start it on the first Sunday of the month, and run it for eight consecutive days. The eight-day series will help convert Sunday readership to the daily habit. Then give readers a three-week break, and come back with a new serial. Expectation, anticipation, surprise.