And with apologies to Ellen, and completely hijacking this comment to take it even further off topic, I adore your icon. Trixie Belden! Love! (Also, see my icon.)
Oh, yay! I always love it when people on LJ tell me they also liked the Trixie books. :) It's such a fun series, and I don't know that many people IRL who've read it (well, except for my sister, whose books I stole and read when I was small. :) Although I guess with the reissuing, more kids might be reading it now.
My journal is on a Trixie theme, (not because I'm obsessed or anything, just because it was a fun idea to do) and about 1/3 of my icons are Trixie.
Thank you for pointing that out, it was full of excellence.
I write short stories because the stories that come happen the way that they happen and then they are finished. I am writing a novel, but it came as a very long plot with many things happening and which will take a novel's number of words to tell.
I hate word limits and required word lengths on submissions, because the story has already happened and sometimes works for everything in the guideline except that one specification. I am learning to write to that specification, but it's far easier for me with nonfiction and reviews than it is with fiction.
I read short stories because they are there. Same reason I read novels, websites, newspapers, and journals. And cereal boxes, for that matter. I must read, in the same way that sharks must keep swimming or drown.
You're welcome. I'm glad that it seems to have started up some side discussions of short fiction vs novels. I don't believe any editor thinks that every writer can write both forms equally well. I'm a short fiction fanatic so of course I'm going to encourage the writing of short fiction.
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Happy Valentine's Day (from your friendly neighborhood Valentine Fairy)!
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My journal is on a Trixie theme, (not because I'm obsessed or anything, just because it was a fun idea to do) and about 1/3 of my icons are Trixie.
P.S. Heroine Addict icons are awesome.
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I write short stories because the stories that come happen the way that they happen and then they are finished. I am writing a novel, but it came as a very long plot with many things happening and which will take a novel's number of words to tell.
I hate word limits and required word lengths on submissions, because the story has already happened and sometimes works for everything in the guideline except that one specification. I am learning to write to that specification, but it's far easier for me with nonfiction and reviews than it is with fiction.
I read short stories because they are there. Same reason I read novels, websites, newspapers, and journals. And cereal boxes, for that matter. I must read, in the same way that sharks must keep swimming or drown.
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