Oh, my. What an observation!

[elfs]

"If you can only write short stories but want to write a novel, write a Cast of Thousands: The more characters you follow, the less you have to write. A typical novel is perhaps 120K words long. If your cast has fifty people in it, each book need only have 2,400 words for each." -- James Nicoll, commenting on Harry Turtledove.

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[woggie.livejournal.com]

But what if you have the reverse problem?

Seriously, I've been learning to pare down my ideas so I have less and less to write about. One day I hope to be able to manage a decent sized novella, but for now all I can come up with are epic trilogies.