the end comes too soon...

[litlebanana.livejournal.com]

I'm doing pretty well in terms of my word count, but what's troubling me is the fact that the story is further along than I think it ought to be for this number of words and/or pages. I'm not "slow playing" it, as they say in poker.

So my current fear is, I'll get to 40K or so and the story will just be OVER.

Or even if I make it to 50K, that will be the end. 50K is NOT a novel. It's a novella. This isn't National Novella Writing Month dammit.

Another reason for my concern is that I've been writing novellas in the last six month for sort of practice (and enjoyment). They've all seemed to come to an end on their own accord at around 60 pages. Four of them like that.

What do I do?? I need to stretch this out!!!

/freak out

Comments

[vampedvixen.livejournal.com]

Add another related subplot and thread it through the rest of the story. I once read of a writing technique where the author would write one entire subplot/character POV and then all the others.. then he would just sort of braid them all together to form a finished product, if any of that makes sense.