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Standard lengths for short story's 0 - 250 words: Flash or sudden fiction 0 - 2,000 words: Short-short story 2,000 - 10,000 words.
Are you asking how to get a short story published as a novel? It's too short, and publishers are not generally interested in them except when looking for submissions to anthologies. Are you asking how to pad the length of a short story t...
I am a writer too, and the easiest way to find out is to look in the Novel and Short Story Writer's Market book. It's a great book because it tells you exactly what different magazines and journals look for (genres and lengths). Some will s...
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Whether a short story or novel is easier to write is purely a matter of opinion, and many will base this opinion on the length and complexity of the piece being written. Short stories are exactly that: stories that are written in far less p...
http://www.helium.com/items/1570507-is-it-easier-to-wri...
Yes. I mean, I think that's where some of the stuff for my novel has come from. It came out of a story that started to grow.
http://www.januarymagazine.com/profiles/lambert.html
I have seen short stories defined as anything between about 5,000 to 15,000 words. But some magazines ask for 2,500 words for a short story, so I think that the story itself will dictate its length as will the manner in which it is publishe...
http://www.writingwriteaway.com/QA-WR.htm
Definitely novel-length, because to be honest, that's where the money is. I'm writing for a living and there's much more of a paycheck involved with a novel than there is with a short story. (laughs) That probably sounds crass as hell, but ...
http://www.buried.com/interviews/horror.php?id=118
I don’t think you do know, setting out. Sometimes I will have written a thousand or fifteen hundred words and I’ll realize I could nail the story down in five hundred words or so. You end up cutting, paring down, cutting prepositions and ar...
http://fictionwritersreview.com/interviews/online-ficti...
I’m doing a short right now with a visual effects design school Gnomon Workshop. I’m an artist in residence over there, so we’re doing another short film. It’s an idea that’s been floating around in my head for years, so it’s nice to have a...
http://www.myyearbook.com/?mysession=bWFnX2FydGljbGVfcm...
It's a skill, and not all writers are good at it. Some who do well at short stories are not good at novels.. Yes, the plot is less involved, there are fewer subplots, and there can be fewer characters and details. However, too simple of a p...
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081002145...
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