Dismal.
Or, maybe not.
As the 3.5 are aware, I’ve whined about this subject a bit.
My problem? I keep coming up with ideas that are so grand, so sweeping, so involved – so many places, characters, moving parts, things going on.
As a newbie, a book like that feels like biting off more than I can chew.
I’ve tried other ideas. Ideas that seemed easier, simpler, more down-to-earth.
Inevitably, I end up turning those seemingly simple ideas into epics as well.
So here’s my thought – why fight it?
I’m thinking maybe I’ll embrace my favorite of my many started and stopped novels and work on it in chunks.
In other words, rather than try to push out a thousand page novel (given all that’s going on, I fail to see how it could take less than a thousand pages) – and just write the first part and try to get it published.
Or just bypass traditional publishing and go the self-publishing route.
If people like the first part, I keep telling the story with a second, third, fourth etc installment. I don’t know how many pages but given what’s in my mind, it will be a lot if the installments keep coming.
Kind of a grandiose idea. In total, it’d take years. But obviously there’s have to be some interest in the first or second installments to keep going. If there is interest, I’m sure that’d light a fire under my butt to work harder.
Ultimately, I’m proposing a sweeping epic tale told in several installments/books and when all the books are finished they all link up in one overriding story arc.
Don’t mind me, I’m just thinking out loud.
What say you, 3.5?
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