Hello everyone!

Today I will be blogging about different story lengths.

One of the first dilemmas writers face when they begin working on their fiction is deciding whether or not they intend to write a novel or a short story. There are pros and cons to both, but fiction writers tend to choose the medium in which they feel comfortable. They want the length to feel adequate enough to show the plot and character progression in the best way possible.

So which form of fiction do I prefer? While I like to think I’m a novelist, I am definitely a short story writer. Four Firewoods (available on Amazon here) was 4400 words long or so. That is a pretty sizable short story for this day and age, but it isn’t anywhere close to novel territory.

At the moment, I feel incapable of writing a novel. That isn’t my expression of self-pity; it’s the truth. Whenever I wrote research papers in college, I struggled to go the required page requirement simply because I got to the damn point on the first page. I take the same approach when writing fiction. It is difficult for me to sink all of the effort and time into writing a novel when I can resolve the central conflict in less than 5,000 words.

Maybe there’ll be a day when I am able to write a novel, But today isn’t the day!

Until next time.

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