@harryllama, with the details that you have provided thus far about your project, and assuming your finished work will have more than 100 pages (considering it is a book of three novellas), I suggest that you create a new file (document) for each chapter. I would create a master right page for the first page of the chapter, and two other masters for the rest of the pages for that chapter.
Maybe names like Ch1_Pg1R, Ch1_PgsR, and Ch1_PgsL.
If you would have a lot of chapters resulting in a lot of masters named this way, just use Ch_ instead of Ch1_. Remember that after you have a master page defined in a document, you can import that master into a new document so that you don't have to create a new master for the new document. Then just edit the imported master to the requirements of your new chapter.
Now you can have the Novella title as a running head in either of the L or R masters. (It is rather bad form to have it on both L and R pages.) This is probably the easiest route to get what you want. It can be done with scripting, but I suspect that you don't really want to dive into those waters.
(Unless you are nearly finished with the book, there is little point in fussing with the layout details. If you want an idea of how the layout would look, you can make a mock up of just 3 or 4 pages by manually setting up text frames, image frames, page numbers, etc.)
--edit 22 Feb.--
I should have mentioned that if you use a first page of the chapter Right Master, you can just omit a page marker altogether, so it is impossible for the master to display a page number; problem solved without using sections.