#ScribesAndMakers 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?
I love short fiction, writing and reading.
I read at least as many anthologies as I do novels; most of my favorite podcasts (including my own) are fiction anthologies. Novels provide space for deep world and character building, while short stories can quickly spark the imagination, like tales told round the fire.
@KurtHohmann I love to write short stories that are pivotal moments in someone's life, for whatever reason. Because there's that pivot, there's an ending. Having a twist at the end is great, too.
I once visited someone's site who had a handful of short stories. Every single one of them ended with, "…it was just a dream." Ahhh! 😆
@CA_Hawthorne Oh no, not the dream trope!
Full disclosure - I nudged in that direction once toward the end of a novel, then gleefully yanked it out from under the reader.
I'm led to believe that pivot or twist endings are frowned upon in certain highbrow literary circles, but then, a lot of literary short fiction has never appealed. Me, I love a good twist.
Kurt Hohmann
Christina Anne Hawthorne