After the successful completion of the first draft of Sins of a Father, I’ve decided to convert Cherokee Johnson to a novella as well. I won’t be starting over from scratch though. Much of what I already wrote will still be usable, so I’m already about half done with it.
The plan is to finish off the first draft of Cherokee before I jump in to round two of Sins.
I realized that neither story needed to be novel length and I was only trying to make them fit that length to release my first novel, even though I already have a full length novel first draft written. I’m planning on working my way through the entire editing process of both novellas before I dive back into the novel though. I want to get as much writing and editing experience under my belt as I can before I crack down on that. Doing so can only make the necessary rewrites that much better.
After that, I’ve already got about a billion other ideas. I’m just not sure which one I’ll choose.
Adam Ickes 
July 8th, 2012 at 10:58 PM
What are your novellas about? I’m finding editing a novella to be significantly less daunting than editing a full novel.
July 9th, 2012 at 6:21 AM
Sins of a Father is an expanded version of my first Fictioneers short (https://adamickes.wordpress.com/2012/03/30/sins-of-a-father/), it’s about what happened before that and what happens after.
The trials and tribulations of Cherokee Johnson is about a group of bank robbers and what happens to them when they encounter zombies (not in the bank, never actually even thought of that until now, that might make for an interesting story).