It sometimes frustrates me that there are various pressures on writers towards writing novels. I like writing novels myself, and while I don't have any evidence of it to present to people yet, I think I'm as good at novels as at short stories, maybe better.
But when people say themselves that they like a short length better, I really wish they could just write at that short length and get read. So few people read much at short lengths. And I can't really blame them, because I write short stuff and even I don't read as much at short lengths as I'd like. I like single-author collections more than anthologies and magazines, is part of the problem, but there isn't a very good mechanism for publishing single-author collections without most of the pieces being in anthologies and magazines first, so I do need to support those.
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Date: 2009-03-09 05:19 pm (UTC)But when people say themselves that they like a short length better, I really wish they could just write at that short length and get read. So few people read much at short lengths. And I can't really blame them, because I write short stuff and even I don't read as much at short lengths as I'd like. I like single-author collections more than anthologies and magazines, is part of the problem, but there isn't a very good mechanism for publishing single-author collections without most of the pieces being in anthologies and magazines first, so I do need to support those.