I thought I was the only ahutor doing this. Now, come to find out, it’s common. I wonder if the reason might be the size of the reading audience, and the love of the story so much that the ahutor can’t imagine it not reaching the widest audience possible, even if this means calling the story something else. This is somewhat true in my own case. In my now-out-of-print pirate fantasy satire, the last chapter is a novella. This novella is now a series of chapterettes in my forthcoming novel A Thousand Wrong Dancers,’ Irish Lore Trilogy, Book Two.
I thought I was the only ahutor doing this. Now, come to find out, it’s common. I wonder if the reason might be the size of the reading audience, and the love of the story so much that the ahutor can’t imagine it not reaching the widest audience possible, even if this means calling the story something else. This is somewhat true in my own case. In my now-out-of-print pirate fantasy satire, the last chapter is a novella. This novella is now a series of chapterettes in my forthcoming novel A Thousand Wrong Dancers,’ Irish Lore Trilogy, Book Two.