Author-ized L.J.#ScribesAndMakers Mar. 13 - Our featured creator writes both novels and short stories. How do you feel about short fiction? Do you read short stories as often as novels?
(Looking up from three new short stories written this year--Captain it's March--with older stories and a narrative poem on sub) Ha ha, short stories? They're fine I guess π Seriously I love short stories, both writing and reading them. Short stories are a great way to explore ideas, characters, and settings without taking the effort and time of full-length novels, both on the writing and reading side, and as such they give exposure to less-dominant narratives and characters. They're great practice and experimentation for longer pieces, too, though I'm firm about the value of short fiction in its own right.
As a reader I'd say I read more short fiction than novels lately, as my funds, time, and attention span are limited. I need some free time and mindspace to start reading a novel, much less a series of novels--I was a wreck while reading the #BrokenEarth trilogy--while short stories are much easier, lighter jaunts.
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