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"I'll waggle you  proper."

Donkey Wash

I made two, before the Winpocalypse.

Still working on the backstory.  I've got a rough but workable outline for part 2, and a rougher one for part 1.  Part 1: Kirsey's young childhood and his heritage.  Part 2: Kirsey taken away to be trained at the Academy.  Part 3: the problems of a young man too good for some Masters and too young (and inventive) for others.  Part 4: Finding a place in the Academy, and losing it.

Part 2 looks like it might run 3,000 words, and Part 1 a bit shorter.  Parts 3 and 4 will probably be similar, so we're talking about a novelette.  But my numbers may be off.

Is that F or C?  -27 C is 'only' -22 F.

While I wrangle with the bigger questions, I'm working on a backstory bio for Kirsey.  Part one isn't too hard.  Part two will be a bit harder.  Part three might be a substantial challenge

Estimate 20,000 to 40,000 words.

If it works out I may do more of them.  Shogran will be a challenge.

Dvorak's Symphony from the New World, almost any Sibelius Symphony, either Book of The Well-Tempered Clavier, or a good organ recording of The Art of the Fugue.
The symphonic presentation of the LotR score.

I may have to pick up one of those epics that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read, and see how the author does it.  Suggestions?

You could keep them together, or you could look for memorable breaking points, cliffhangers being the extreme case.

Maybe sometimes they smoulder?  If you substitute, do it with effect, or do it during description.  In action or dialogue, keep to the regular, non-distracting form.

She'll need better advice than that.  The one Jane Austen story I tried bored me almost to catatonia before the second chapter.  It might have been the inspiration for the definition of a classic as a book everybody wants to have read, but nobody wants to read?