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Novels or Novellas -- What is your preference?

Since the question of slowness and length has been brought up with regards to my new titles in the reviews I'm getting on Amazon, I wanted to ask the Patreon for input.

Right now, each weekly installment of I, Werewoman or Holly for the Holidays that I publish is around 30k words, a novella, or roughly half the length of a small novel. Parts Three and Four of I, Werewoman were closer to novel length, but those were unintentionally larger than planned. 

Addicted to Womanhood Book One is about 115,000 words all together, or close to four-times the amount of words that I write every week. 

Regardless of how long the stories themselves wind up being, going forward, would you prefer that I try to stick to the current weekly-ish novella-length installments (30k every week-to-ten days or so) or finish a whole novel (4-6, maybe 8 installments all at once, with a definite story-resolving conclusion at the end) and publish that every month to two months, but without weekly releases in the mean time? For example: after I finish the current I, Werewoman plot arc and Holly for the Holidays (complete), going forward I would only publish a whole, complete plot arc once one is finished, every month to month and a half or two. This would slow down my release schedule significantly (maybe not as much as my math suggests, there are other factors that could accelerate writing novel-length books which don't apply to novella installments), but if releasing weekly serial installment is bothering people then I can avoid that by just waiting until a story is finished and publishing the whole thing in one book, or at least in a series of novel-length books instead of a bunch of weekly serial installments.

What's your preference?


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