tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-375837936500624081.post613557523749119302..comments2008-04-24T21:22:59.461-04:00Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08210540426416933098noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-375837936500624081.post-86360879528806919862008-04-24T21:22:00.000-04:002008-04-24T21:22:00.000-04:002008-04-24T21:22:00.000-04:00The funny thing was, I wrote that at a workshop and the person running it loved the story but didn't think it was possible to turn it into a novel.<BR/><BR/>Good thing I didn't listen and went with my gut.Jamie Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11598784016743700502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-375837936500624081.post-4393862054349439982008-04-18T05:12:00.000-04:002008-04-18T05:12:00.000-04:002008-04-18T05:12:00.000-04:00Interesting point Sandra on the short stories. I actually wrote a short story called RimFire, but by the time I got to 6000 words, I saw all kinds of possibilities as a novel. So now its the fifth book I'm working on.<BR/><BR/>And Zara is right too. The shorter the story, the more difficult it is get the characters and setting to appear real to a reader, there's so little space to carve and mold them.<BR/><BR/>Big MikeBig Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04035855223570315947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-375837936500624081.post-10250872180717091882008-04-17T20:11:00.000-04:002008-04-17T20:11:00.000-04:002008-04-17T20:11:00.000-04:00Never underestimate the value of a short story. Never ever make the mistake that many people do, who devalue them. They are harder to write than novels. Like a good children's book, the skill of the author to write a good tight well fitted novel is only easy as it looks. If it looks easy its the skill rather than the easiness. A good comic is the same. It is a very tight bit of very clever authorship. And if the author has made it look easy, then that author to be sure has probably written a very intertaining but deceptive piece.<BR/><BR/>Short stories go into anthologies. Short stories go into retrospectives. <BR/>Short stories are poetry.<BR/>Short stories are the scales upon which you can build your novels.Zara Penneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11573081736355323976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-375837936500624081.post-45595387821312573562008-04-17T11:43:00.000-04:002008-04-17T11:43:00.000-04:002008-04-17T11:43:00.000-04:00Oh, Lord yes! Write the short story and later, it's possible to make it a full length one. Can't wait to read that one, Chica! It'll be great.Judith Legerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02997747703670815073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-375837936500624081.post-24364507197799588262008-04-17T08:08:00.000-04:002008-04-17T08:08:00.000-04:002008-04-17T08:08:00.000-04:00Too true!<BR/><BR/>Better a short bit of writing than no writing at all.<BR/><BR/>Plus the internet has now opened up the market for short stories. I love reading romance shorts while on a lunch break.Kimber Chinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13658012405712901099noreply@blogger.com