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For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.
Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.
I wrote my first short story in third grade.
Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too.
I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.
Can you write 200 words a day? 100? 50? In six months, 50 words a day is 9,000 words. That's 2-3 short stories. If you did 200 words every day, in three months that's 36,000 words. That's half a short novel.
The short story, it's not a step on the way to becoming a novelist.
I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.
I'm not sure if you can strive your way into a career as a novelist. You have to write books; there are no short cuts.
