: Re: Research overgrown main novel plan and writing I want your opinion on this: For about half a year now I've researched my novel. Because of situating the story to the part of an original Earth's

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What are your goals?

Are you writing for entertainment, for yourself? If so, write what you want. Write the history, write a series of vignettes from the perspective of a prehistoric ghost of your world, write a new alphabet and language for each creature - write whatever makes you happy.

If your goal is publication, ask yourself what kind of publication you're looking for. You want to publish a novel through a Big 5 publisher? You need to work on that novel, find ways to shape the story around the backstory, and be prepared for a lot of your history to never be known by anyone but yourself.

But there are other ways to publish. Even with a big publisher, you could arrange to have your extra materials used as promotion, and put them up on a website or something. But if you're interested in going with a small, flexible publisher or self-publishing, you could publish your history, publish your ghost-vignettes, publish a bunch of short stories set in the same world, and, yes, eventually publish the novel or novels. A lot more flexibility, but also a lot more work, and less chance of your work being seen by a large audience.

You need to base your choice on your goals. What do you want from your writing?

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