4th August 2016 | for Creatives | short stories, novel writing, writing, storytelling, Chuck Wendig, never stop LEARNING |
"Short stories will teach you to write. It's that easy. Short fiction requires a heightened focus on sharp storytelling and crafty writing. A novel lets you get lazy. Short stories demand you to write in tip-top shape. You'll learn to say more with less."
"You can and perhaps should do both. Novels and short stories combine together."
"Writers must produce. And produce. And produce. ABW: 'Always Be Writing.' ... One book a year? Psssh. No. Focus only on novels? Not likely. Writers are no longer as free to work in a single sphere of writerly existence. Get used to writing short, long, script, game, non-fiction, etc."
"I think a story, when properly told, finds its own natural length. If you try to extend it too much, it just stretches and begins to bore, and if you try to compress it too much, it just fractures. So you just hope that you can find the right rhythm. It's a musical thing. You feel it out, you cut back, you switch things around—until it feels entirely natural. A story should feel easy when of course it's far from easy." (artist)
"Newsflash: nobody has the time to write a novel except established novelists. And even then you'd be surprised how easily life intrudes."
"Authors have told excellent stories based on subjects they cannot know."
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