You might also be familiar with terms likenoveletteandflash fiction. These are subcategories that refer to stories of specific lengths within these larger categories. A novelette is longer than a short story but shorter than a novella, while flash fiction is a story that is typically fewer than ...
What is the style of a short story? How long should a vignette be? What is the short story The Lay of Thrym about? Is the short story a genre? What is a narrative short story? What is a short story cycle? What kind of story is The Story of an Hour?
There’s no hard and fast rule on how long a case study should be. But it’s always a good idea to ask “how short can we make it?” A good case study avoids the unnecessary minutiae, knows what it’s trying to say, and communicates it quickly and without ambiguity. With a few ...
Typically, agencies that request word count up front like to see it for precisely the same reason a Millicent at a non-requesting agency would be so pleased it appeared: it enables them to reject too-long and too-short manuscripts at the query stage, rather than the submission stage. In e...
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One North Star goal— a longer-term target like “reach 1,000 email subscribers” or “hit 100 reviews” A few micro-goals— small weekly or monthly targets to build momentum Authors who stick with marketing for the long haul often say the same thing: consistency beats intensity. ...
From a reader's perspective, it's still annoying af. A reader's focus should be on interpreting the story, not wading through the author's ego-driven writing style and perspective decisions. Oy Vey Esme - Over 4 years ago Hi Esme, thank you for sharing that. I'd say that reflects...
Of course, it didn’t take too long to see the work was far from complete. Growing the “beehive” Kalichman, from the University of Connecticut, has compared the world of AIDS denial toa “beehive”: It looks like a chaotic mix of people, pursuing bad science and debunked ideas for the...
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Using the ChoiceScript programming language, this apocalyptic game-story aims to challenge the fixity of boundaries between long-standing terms such as 'reader', 'writer' and 'text', and invite the reader-player to question the nature of their engagements with texts and their creators. The ...