tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041804343600978883.post2411597282826572196..comments2024-03-28T05:34:42.670-05:00Comments on MAKE MINE MYSTERY: Short versus LongMorgan Mandelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10118929301591850918noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041804343600978883.post-31512998425336820462012-06-25T09:09:20.818-05:002012-06-25T09:09:20.818-05:00I'm not a short story writer, but sure enjoy r...I'm not a short story writer, but sure enjoy reading them.Marilyn Meredith a.k.a. F. M. Meredithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04179984154939161530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041804343600978883.post-62264285402198078502012-06-24T15:54:14.280-05:002012-06-24T15:54:14.280-05:00Mark, I understand and appreciate all you've s...Mark, I understand and appreciate all you've said, but I'm a bit different. I enjoy writing short stories more because I can move from one set of characters, one voice, one setting, one tone in a much shorter length of time than if I wrote only novels. I also enjoy reading short stuff more for the same reasons. I suppose the key word for me is variety.Earl Staggshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13349667172813175960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041804343600978883.post-46454387146625309932012-06-23T17:16:34.164-05:002012-06-23T17:16:34.164-05:00I can write a novel faster than I can write and po...I can write a novel faster than I can write and polish a short story. And there's no market to speak of for short stories the way there was in the glory days of the Saturday Evening Post, Redbook, and so forth. More people prefer novels. I only read novels myself. Have you ever noticed that in school, when you read a "short story" by, say, Fitzgerald or Ring Lardner, it is 20K long? Now a short story has to be 2500 words or less to have any chance. We are the short attention span generation. So you might as well go ahead and develop that idea into a novel. It'll be a lot more rewarding in the end, and your readers will have something more meaty to spend their time on.<br /><br />If I get an irresistible idea for a short, I do sit down and write it, but I usually end up posting it for free somewhere. So that's not a good career plan! Novels are king.<br /><br />--Denise Weeks (Shalanna Collins)<br />Winner of the 2011 Oak Tree Press contest with NICE WORK, a mystery coming out in July 2012<br />(sorry for the plug, but I have been hypnotized to sign everything with this for the next month)Shalannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05503978745207805622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041804343600978883.post-21353038162372474882012-06-20T19:33:24.269-05:002012-06-20T19:33:24.269-05:00I agree that the short story is more work, word fo...I agree that the short story is more work, word for word, than the novel. I appreciate the short story as an art form, but for me, it's just too narrow and limited a form; there's too much I want to write about. I need some room to roam.Steven J. Wangsnesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14846516529180802046noreply@blogger.com