: Re: Should I turn my enormous novel into a series? I am currently writing a novel and am 25,000 words into it, but only about 10% of the way in total. My intention was to write a single novel,

@Carla500

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This sounds closest to The Lord of the Rings, which is one enormous
story split into three physical volumes. Each volume contains two
parts which Tolkien labelled books, but Tolkien himself thought of it
as one work, not three (or six).
GRRMartin's fourth book of A Song of Ice and Fire (aka Game of
Thrones) got so unwieldy that he split it into two, A Feast for
Crows and A Dance with Dragons. He chose to separate it by
character and geography rather than time, which is unusual, but since
he has about eleventy billion POV characters, he can get away with
it.
David Eddings's first series, the Belgariad, was originally three
books, but his publisher talked him into splitting it into five. I
think the Malloreon (the sequel series) was planned as five, but then
he and his wife released two more series with three books each.

So yes, it can certainly be done. I would only suggest that you try to divide your books at reasonable "act breaks" and not just end abruptly mid-scene (which is what happened to Eddings when he changed the Belgariad from three books to five).

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