| Re: Writing SF/F short stories - useful for novelists?
I know this might be an excessive simplification, but do you have any ideas which want to be short stories, whose natural length falls in that region? (I know I frequently do) If so, write them, as compactly and precisely as they need to be. As short stories, not as fragments that might be stuck together into a novel (yes, I too have read novel-length books which were essentially collections of shorts glued together to make something saleable)
The good short story has a long and honourable history is SFF, some of the createst classics arrived in that form. Not easy, no, and difficult to place, but – who here doesn't have a couple of shorts nestling among their favourites of all time? |