Sometimes I wonder if instead of "epic novels" if I shouldn't just make smaller novellas or something that will just make it a multibook series... Like Nancy Drew books, the vampire academy novel series, or even Harlequin novels... I've often wondered if that would be easier...That's kind of where my head was going with my wondering.
Then again, I've been reading a lot of webtoons lately too and I see so many things I could do if I focused on one centric character or couple or something like that then have the final book be like the end all with everyone.... I have so much to tell... And I feel like if I tell it all the books would be ungodly long if I told each story completely...
Of course I've also been going through my editing and just realized that in order to bring the scenes to life and include details to them so that I wasn't just using dialogue to tell the story, my manuscript is going to go from 350 pages to a whole lot more... Like double the number or more... And roughly more than 100,000 words
So it lead me to wondering, would people rather read novels that are smaller in page number with the more details and more centered on a single character or couple, and maybe like 30,000-50,000 words which would lead to multiple books in a series (more than 5 in the series), or would they prefer to read the larger/longer novels with close to 100,000 words and maybe only 3 or 4 books in the series...
I guess something for me to ponder. But I welcome opinions.











