Timeline for Should it be a Short Story or Full Story
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| Nov 22, 2012 at 23:24 | vote | accept | Chris Okyen | ||
| Nov 22, 2012 at 23:02 | comment | added | Lexi | Yeah, I find I never know how much of a story is left until I actually start writing it. Something you think should be short and sweet (ie. "This will be my climax and the last quarter of my book!") turns into something else completely (ie. "Crap, that was only the middle..."). | |
| Nov 22, 2012 at 10:29 | comment | added | SF. | That's a really good advice. I had it both ways. A thing spawned from one small image in my imagination, intended to be a four-page shortie maybe, bloomed into a beast of 160k words. At a different time, I was fairly certain that I have good four chapters of the story ahead of me, then I arrived at one key point and decided: "All that remains is obvious! Let the rest play out in the reader's mind! It will be better than anything I can write anyway!" and simply ended there. | |
| Nov 22, 2012 at 1:56 | history | answered | Lexi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |