The average Victorian serial novel was about the kind of lifestyle that nineteenth-century readers wanted for themselves. Charles Dickens was a talented novelist known for his serial writing skills. It was he who made the series popular again after its near death due to the English fiscal crisis. A series is an ongoing story told over time in monthly or weekly installments. Great Expectations, in serial form, is a novel that was printed in weekly installments in Dickens's magazine, All Year Round. In his analysis he proved himself to be worthy of the true serial form. In the serial form of Great Expectations there are two chapters in each weekly episode and seven chapters in each monthly episode. The entire novel is made up of nine monthly episodes and thirty-six weekly episodes. In most serials there is more than one plot in each episode. In Great Expectations this is true. In both the weekly and monthly episodes the plot lines seem to shift from one chapter to the next. So, although there is only one plot per chapter, there are multiple plot lines in each installment. The 19th century series was meant to be a continuous story with each installment, meaning the breaks don't feel like drastic breaks in the story. Each installment seems to wrap up a part of the story well, while still keeping the reader guessing and waiting for the next installment to pick up where the last one left off. The reshoots of the episodes are individual starts that follow the plot of the previous episode. A pattern that seems to follow with each episode is that the end of an episode closes a chapter, while the resumption of a new episode begins a new chapter. A second pattern is that each episode does not include a complete plot, such as beginning-climax-end. The complete plot seems to expand throughout the entire novel. Publishing played an important role in the serial novel. The popularization of the series occurred when the English tax was proposed. Newspapers and magazines used larger sheets of paper to avoid the tax and used periodicals to fill this extra space. Many nineteenth-century periodicals were not published alone but in newspapers and magazines. Along with them were advertisements and illustrations. In serial form Great Expectations included illustrations within the novel.