I'd love to know what qualifies as 'Really, really big' for you. I often thought novels were beyond my current abilities...until someone pointed out that a fanfic I began in 2015 was already close to 'Lord of the Rings' in length (60 chapters and 379,490 words approx at the time I finally got as far as I could with it) so that gave me pause to consider that my idea of 'big' is not quite the same as others. XD
It has incentivized me to finally start on a proper novel though. :)
Well, “really, really big” was a little nod to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, but in general I was talking more about the scale of ideas and story that you have to keep in your head while writing a novel. Mine range from as small as can be considered a novel (40-50k) to The Price of Thorns (180k).
I'd love to know what qualifies as 'Really, really big' for you. I often thought novels were beyond my current abilities...until someone pointed out that a fanfic I began in 2015 was already close to 'Lord of the Rings' in length (60 chapters and 379,490 words approx at the time I finally got as far as I could with it) so that gave me pause to consider that my idea of 'big' is not quite the same as others. XD
It has incentivized me to finally start on a proper novel though. :)
Well, “really, really big” was a little nod to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, but in general I was talking more about the scale of ideas and story that you have to keep in your head while writing a novel. Mine range from as small as can be considered a novel (40-50k) to The Price of Thorns (180k).