| Re: Writing SF/F short stories - useful for novelists?
Yes, the point was that the threads of a novel aren't treated as seperate strands tied together end to end. Rather, they all combine in the warp and weft to form the tapestry. To quote you;
then these subplots need to be seen conceptually as a part of a whole, not as short stories, or a series of interrelated but distinct tales which eventually form a whole
the subplots form a whole. They are interrelated. This precludes them being distinct from each other, otherwise they couldn't cohere.
To me writing short stories is something everyone should do before they try to write a novel. If you can't write well over 7000 words, or even want to try, does that mean you can write a 100,000 word opus? |