Mixed feelings. On the one hand, my gut reaction is that it would be appropriate to start a new story. OTOH, if this is conceptually a novel, switching gears at 20k words isn't all that weird: it's not unusual for the first quarter to be setup, and then things really get rolling.
So that's a consideration: how does the stuff so far relate to the big picture of where you're trying to go? Does it make sense, structurally from the perspective of where you think it's likely to come out, to do a gearshift here? Will the overall result feel satisfying to a reader, or would two distinct pieces each feel more cohesive?
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Mixed feelings. On the one hand, my gut reaction is that it would be appropriate to start a new story. OTOH, if this is conceptually a novel, switching gears at 20k words isn't all that weird: it's not unusual for the first quarter to be setup, and then things really get rolling.
So that's a consideration: how does the stuff so far relate to the big picture of where you're trying to go? Does it make sense, structurally from the perspective of where you think it's likely to come out, to do a gearshift here? Will the overall result feel satisfying to a reader, or would two distinct pieces each feel more cohesive?