I'm taking the main theme of my novel and I'm going to try rewriting/reworking it as a short story. It's sort of what my novel is worked around, but there have been several times that I think the pacing was sacrificed for length (since there's a standard length for first novels), and I'm wondering if it could be that much more powerful as a short story.
I never really thought of myself as a short story writer, even though there are obvious benefits to it. I wrote a few in high school, but usually I intended to keep those stories from creative writing class assignments and add to them to make novels since I thought the story could continue much more. I also used to not be a fan of short stories, though I'm not sure what it was about them I didn't like.
Last year my cousin gave me a collection and for Christmas I received Hemingway's The Snows of Kilamanjaro. So...wish me luck on this endeavor. I still have numerous pages to finish for my French homework. Is it sad that I'm already counting down the weeks? 9 more left. I wish I could just skip all that and go to the end and see how well my French comes back. I know. Patience is a virtue.
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Interesting. So how long is a short story nowadays, and how much do you think you'll have to cut?
Well...I don't think I'm going to do much cutting since that would be over 300 pages. :) I'll just do some pastin gand some rewriting in a new document.
I'm aiming for about 20 pages, double spaced in word, which should be about right.
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