#PennedPossibilities 732 - Is your WIP a singular novel, a series of books, serial fiction, comics, or fanfiction? (Or something else entirely? Explain.)
Well, I had originally planned to release "complete collections" of my translations of German folk tales every few years, with new editions incorporating new tales that I had translated.
But I quickly realized that editing increases _geometrically_ with book length, and thus decided that a saner approach is to release shorter collections of 100 tales each, with each volume focusing on a specific theme.
My current WIP, "Old Goatfoot", is volume 2 in that series. But I have easily enough ideas and source material to work with to publish 40 further volumes - or more.
Jürgen Hubert
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