Who reads short fiction? Is it easier or harder to write?
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Re: Who reads short fiction? Is it easier or harder to write
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Second, to answer your question, for me I think it just depends on the needs of the story you are writing whether or not it comes easier as a short story or needs to expand into a novel. I started writing what I thought would be a short story but turned more into a novella, not quite novel length (though I'm still not done so it might actually get there). Some stories by nature need the words a novel can provide, some stories can be given in the brevity a short story gives. Then again a short story can be pretty lengthy (or so I am told by my students--they think I short story always means four pages). I've written short stories mostly for my writing classes and not really as something I would have undergone on my own, yet I still enjoyed writing them.
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