My novella is turning into a novel. What should I do? writing

My novella is turning into a novel. What should I do?

I planned on the novella to be about 50k words but it's now at 45k and there's still a lot that needs to happen. Another 30k-40k words worth of stuff.

The plan for this was to self-publish it for free, but as something short and easy. If I turn it into a novel I have to spend a longer time editing it, find more beta's and wait for them to get it back, messing up my timeline.

I could gut it. Perhaps wait until I finish it and then just cut it down, down, down. And that will make it easier to edit, quicker for betas to read.

Just roll with it as a novel? Take the punches. There's no way I won't cut out a few parts anyway, so I think if I went with it being a novel it could end at perhaps 60k-70k after editing.

I've thought about splitting it in half and I don't like the idea, even though it would work. The story would need a complete re-haul, and the entire plot would change and fall apart just for me to write in an ending half-way through the story, and all of that. So I'm not a huge fan of that idea.

Any other ideas? I'm not sure what to do.

I wanted to self-publish this for free to get my head around self-publishing itself, so I could have something on the market before I put my novel out. That was the plan, anyway.

I could always shelve this for now and work on another idea I had, what would almost definitely be a lot shorter, and a more viable novella. Then come back to this current WIP.

Submitted February 25, 2016 at 12:21AM by AJakeR
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