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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.
I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.
When I started the 'Broken Empire' trilogy, I thought it was a short story, and I didn't know the beginning, middle, or end of even that.
I think all good short stories are about what it means to tell a good story.
I like the eclipses, the synaptic jumps of short stories. The reader has to participate very actively in the experience.
Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too.
I actually think that short stories transfer to film much better than novels do.
Though they don't always have to be set in fog, weather is incredibly important in ghost stories. As is suspense: you've got to turn the screw very, very slowly.
I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.
