I've never been close to novel length, but half novel feels very do-able for some of my current projects if I wanted to restructure them a bit... or more accurately if I just wanted to spend more time on them. My VHS fic could go really long, but I want it doner not longer. Novels always felt like they were so far beyond me, but just working on a project and seeing it's like 70 paperback pages is like 'wow', esp since I consider them not huge projects.