Post by SciFive on Jun 28, 2017 10:12:07 GMT
Jun 28, 2017 8:18:55 GMT @zieveraar said:
Short stories and short novels, definitely. I'm more of a fan now than I used to be. Fantasy almost by definition means long series, dragged out stories. And I just can't motivate myself anymore to read those. Just give me a good story, a good idea, that's all I'm looking for now, and I tend to find those more in short stories.My stories are usually between 10,000 and 15,000 words, which is generally called a novelette.
The entire proper structure of a story can be found in all of these, except possibly in a very small short story.
The difference in short fiction is that the character depth has got to be limited to a small number of people rather than having extensive side stories with the kinds of extra characters you might have in a novel.
My stories usually wrap around one primary person with two or three other people that are somewhat developed as part of the primary story.
I write Sci-Fi stories, but not ones with space aliens...
I have no trouble at all coming up with ideas for stories because of this, but I try to pace myself. After I've published a book on Amazon, I give myself a mental vacation for awhile to clear my head. I just published one in May 2017. So I'm resting.
