Short and short short
Rather than plunging into a new novel-length manuscript, I've been working on short stories lately. I don't have to commit to a year of work, I can see the whole manuscript almost at once, and I have something done and potentially out the door much sooner.
If you usually write book-length fiction and non-fiction, does it help you emotionally or from a writer's craft perspective to focus on reviews, posts and short stories for a while?
Since my novels are 80,000, 130,000 and 250,000 words in length, it cramps me (at first) to work on stories that are only 500, 1000 and 2,500 words. But since I'm working based on submission guidelines, it helps me to clear the extra words out of my prose to have to cut each story by 10-20% from its first draft before I can send it in.
For now, I'm having fun. In a few months, who knows, maybe it will be time to seriously look at another book again.
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If you usually write book-length fiction and non-fiction, does it help you emotionally or from a writer's craft perspective to focus on reviews, posts and short stories for a while?
Since my novels are 80,000, 130,000 and 250,000 words in length, it cramps me (at first) to work on stories that are only 500, 1000 and 2,500 words. But since I'm working based on submission guidelines, it helps me to clear the extra words out of my prose to have to cut each story by 10-20% from its first draft before I can send it in.
For now, I'm having fun. In a few months, who knows, maybe it will be time to seriously look at another book again.
You May Also Like: Review of C. Hope Clark's Mystery/Thriller "Lowcountry Bribe"
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