surrealist

Are you a short story writer, a novel writer, neither, or both? From reading, it seems as if people are usually keen toward one or the other. Which are you?

Joelle

both, but primarily novels.

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Patrick Beverley

I'm an ex-songwriter and ex-poet, writing short stories and at work on my first novel.

DavidGil

What is it called if you've never actually finished something and gotten barely anywhere with novels? Err, anyway I'm that. Though I'm 4 chapters in with a novel currently so I'll have to wait and see what happens with it. (have a two chapter novel on hold currently as well)

Err, I also have one short story wrote more for practise than anything else. Does that make me both or? I'll leave that up to you.

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All of the above. And many, many more. Scripts, catalog copy, radio broadcasts, standup comedy material, newspaper articles and interviews and columns, product literature, newsletters, songs, billboards......

Thing is...it's all writing.

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DamionAlexander

Short story and novel...but I'm thinking of writing a screenplay

Ilasir Maroa

I try out everything. I do a lot of poetry, a few short stories, a bunch of novels, a lot of posts on the internet, lol...

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imrhati

I am a story teller, I pick the medium for the story depending on what suits it best.

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SilkFX

I've been a short-story writer for most of my adult writing life...but having completed my MFA I'm contemplating taking the plunge into "novelism." Two of the short stories I did for my thesis have novel potential; I'm just trying to decide whether I can commit.

(In my juvenilia are three completed novel-length works and at least three unfinished novel-length works. )

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RandomCL

I'm definitely a novelist first and foremost. I despise short stories, though I realize that it is an obvious weak point for myself as a writer. After reading many short stories, I realized that all the good ones had something in common: they rocked me emotionally. They all hit home and had a deep, immediate feeling of emotional wear and tear. I've never been able to create this feeling so forcefully, over such a short period of time (a few pages). Instead, I'm capable of telling a story over a much longer period of time, carrying the same emotional weight, but it builds slowly, amassing the same amount, but over a much longer time. I think that's honestly the biggest difference in the ability of people to write either type.

CroZ

Novels mostly. I've done a few shorts.

Johnna

Novels, novels, novels! I love them. There's just so many pages in which to tell the story. I loathe keeping it short, because I can't seem to tell a story in less than 100,000 words. I love developing characters and sending them off on crazy adventures all over the world, introducing someone then bringing them back later, evils that amass over time... My first novel spans two years and my second, maybe one, but all in all, my novels are long.

However, I've been addressing my weakness. I've been working on writing short stories lately, and it gets easier as I practice. I can't say I enjoy it, though.

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am focused on freelance article writing on the net

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Rumrunner

I guess I'm in this camp, too. I'm not so good at keeping things concise. Sometimes I'll write little one or two page character, tone, or mood sketches as excercizes, but I don't really consider them "stories," because they don't ever really have any kind of an arc. And I like epics, with lots of subterfuge, extra characters, plot-twists, sub-plots, etc.

But what I think I'm really worst at are short screenplays. I just can't seem to tell any kind of a coherent story in anything under sixty pages. Which is pretty useless. About six times too long for a short and thirty or forty percent too short for a feature.

- Rumrunner

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ClancyBoy

I write mainly angry forum posts and zippy one-liners.

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