I” think you may just be complicating..everything” and other stories about apples burning down houses told in less than 100 pages and no less than five run-on sentences.
Please tell me you see it. Please. My longest manuscript thus far is cappin’ around 500 pages. Maybe around 250k words. The usual accepted length for a “novel” (ie: not a novella or a short story) is around 50k words and at least over 100 pages. Of course, this is arbitrary, but please humor this…