![]() Even if you only counted a novel as 20k words, that would mean writing 2,000,000 words in that two year period. Let’s do a numeric breakdown, since numbers are pretty hard to argue with. You can write 100 short stories in two years, but 100 novels? She asked me why she should be writing short stories, when all of her ideas were novel-length, and I told her: because it takes a hell of a lot longer to finish a novel. Of the two new beta-partners I have acquired lately, one of them is a new(er) author and has no love for short story format. They are worth their weight in something more valuable than gold: experience. These are the definitions I generally go by.) ![]() And I am defining short story as anything under 20k words. A recent post on one author’s experience with short stories inspired this post, though I am not writing (mostly) from a personal point of view I am writing from an editor/beta/publisher point of view. ![]()
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