Which should I do? Keep it in or make a separate?

[soupsabaw]

Finally finished my first book. Insert shameless self promo: check it out if you wish! It's about these beast-humans who end up going into a small war within in their City of Beasts after the antagonist is trying to rid their world of all humans, seeing that if someone doesn't have any beast blood running through them, they're useless. But the protagonists fight against him to the end after realizing that this man is simply too evil. They're all these crosses between humans and some type of mythical creature or legend. It's not my best writing and definitely quantity over quality, but it was rather something I wanted to test myself and have fun with doing my own stuff for the first time. It's like my ugly duckling baby lol.

I still love my characters a lot. I plan on writing little extras whether it be scrapped original scenes, additional scenes that didn't fit, or self-indulgent writings for it after taking a tiny break from the 290k it ended up being. So, I wondered if I should separate the extras and link the two stories or just throw them in under the already set-completed story?

 

[Empress_Omnii]

I have seen extras added after and as a reader, I prefer not having to open another story to find the them.

Not sure how most people feel, but I presume it's not something people would have strong feelings about?

 

[soupsabaw]

I have seen extras added after and as a reader, I prefer not having to open another story to find the them.

Not sure how most people feel, but I presume it's not something people would have strong feelings about?

Makes senseee thank you!

 

[CharlesEBrown]

There is a function to link stories on the summary page. If your side story is just a chapter or two, and runs parallel with the story, insert it at the end but with chapter numbers/title showing where it belongs. If it's a longer story, then make it separate and link it via the summary page.

 

[RainyLiquid]

I usually throw additional scenes and bonus chapters into my full story rather then have a completely separate book dedicated to them. It's just easier for a reader that way to tell what arc or timeline moment the event is happening in, vs having to go out of their way to find a side story and read it at a point they might not be caught up to or well past.

If it's a completely different set of characters and goals and other things, and is more of a spinoff or something I'd say that could be it's own story, but if it's just additional content it should be part of the whole thing.

 

[Prince_Azmiran_Myrian]

Add as extra chapters, but make sure you label them well and clearly as what they are.

 

[soupsabaw]

I usually throw additional scenes and bonus chapters into my full story rather then have a completely separate book dedicated to them. It's just easier for a reader that way to tell what arc or timeline moment the event is happening in, vs having to go out of their way to find a side story and read it at a point they might not be caught up to or well past.

If it's a completely different set of characters and goals and other things, and is more of a spinoff or something I'd say that could be it's own story, but if it's just additional content it should be part of the whole thing.

Noted! Thank youu