I suppose when you have several books out, this question comes up as the polite and specific form of, "Is your work going well?"
When you're published only in short form, usually people intone it as a suggestion, sometimes even as though they feel this idea will not have occurred to you. A novel! Gosh! If only I'd thought of that! Other times it's clear from context/intonation that they mean "short stories don't count, are you writing something real?"
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Date: 2014-12-19 02:31 pm (UTC)When you're published only in short form, usually people intone it as a suggestion, sometimes even as though they feel this idea will not have occurred to you. A novel! Gosh! If only I'd thought of that! Other times it's clear from context/intonation that they mean "short stories don't count, are you writing something real?"
Still, politeness is called for.