Day 1,700: Two Books?

There’s a new idea floating around in my head, and to be honest, I’m a bit scared of it…

I’m looking at the 136,000 words that my novel is right now, and I’m thinking “jesus, I have enough words for two books,” and a light bulb is going off in my head that maybe I have two books. And there’s a clear split, too…one storyline becomes one book, and the other storyline becomes the second. It’s doable…

But, it also a bit scary. This story wasn’t conceived as two separate books, and I built in comp...