User blog:Tiberius64/Character Death and Revival Arc

Yeah, if any of you have seen my profile section about stories in progress, I have one in the making with the working title Ad Astra 4: Sacrifice of the Angels.

The thing is, I feature character death. It is reversible, but it will take a while to explain this reversal and even more sacrifice and loss as the cost. So far, I'm up to 9 chapters...a rather long and drudging task for my loyal fan base on FanFiction.net...

The thing is, the only story I've written that was ever that long was Balance of Terror. The thing about this current story-in-progress is that I'm basing a lot of it on the movies Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek III: The Search For Spock, which is an arc where Spock sacrifices himself to save the ship yet is revivable at a great cost (in that case, the destruction of the USS Enterprise and the death of Kirk's son).

So my question is this: should I split this story up into two separate stories so as to not be too long (and maybe add a bit of suspense at the end of the first part)? If I do so, then my first part would be 8 chapters long and a bit more reasonable than forcing an audience to go through a story that's like 14 chapters or so long. Again, I ask for feedback on this from the masses so I can get an idea of what to go for. Thanks and God bless!!!