| Re: Writing SF/F short stories - useful for novelists?
I see short story writing problematic after written a novel length. This is because I am now used to constantly expand the ideology, scenes and the plot. Writing a short story has been experiment, that I have done to entertain people and to see if I can do it. Like people above say, the short stories are useful for testing ideas, characterisation etc. etc. But they are also useful to raising one profile in the writing circles, as every bit of publicity takes you that little bit further on being a successful Author. Only celebrities get straight away deals with the publishers. Rest of us has to do it hard way.
PS. Before anyone says, yes I agree, there are first time writers who hasn't done the short stories etc. etc. It still doesn't say that they couldn't do that, does it? |