: Re: Which amount of side-story is acceptable? If you grow your writing from short-stories, to longer stories and novels you will have to create more content. Most of it will be more detailed description

There is no answer. "3" (if you can actually count them) side-stories can be too much. Even 1 can... if you want to write (or rather, if the story demands to be) a simple story.

3 can be too many. But 100 can be just right. It depends.

Haven't read the Wheel of Time yet, but I've heard it contains lots of side-stories. Too many? Some surely think so, but then they're not the audience for it. Given it is a success, it looks like it didn't contain too many tangents.

So... as I always say: write your story the way it demands. If it's an intricate, multi-level plot, then there will automatically be "side"-stories (some of them, or even most of them, won't really be tangents, it just won't be obvious how they're all connected for some time, see "Pulp Fiction" for a great (non-linear, too) example)

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