Well there's a case of sticking to your guns, no? And honesty, too. Perhaps a Booker Prize is on the horizon?? One thing is for sure, to write a long or short book, or a too-long or a too-short book it is necessary to… write a book! And you've written many—take a bow, dear Pedro!
The natural is like taking a deep breath and sighing - just write.
What the cookie-cutter big publishing demands is make it 300 +/- Why?
The story takes as long as it takes.
But the publishing world is another country of rules.
But even they break their rules, with some frequency. I mean, rules are made to be broken, right? Rules, moulds, and stereotypes - ka-boom, g'bye!
I've written two types of books over the decades: too long and too short, sometimes both at the same time!
Well there's a case of sticking to your guns, no? And honesty, too. Perhaps a Booker Prize is on the horizon?? One thing is for sure, to write a long or short book, or a too-long or a too-short book it is necessary to… write a book! And you've written many—take a bow, dear Pedro!
A Booker Prize seems as likely as a Nobel or an Oscar, but thanks for the thought and joke!