stories

[yardbird12]

Do you authors mind your work being refered to as a story when you have put a great deal of effort and lots of time into it

 

[CyranoJ]

Do you authors mind your work being refered to as a story when you have put a great deal of effort and lots of time into it

Well, I prefer "Life-Changing Excursion Into the Dark Substrata of the Human Soul, Written in a Voice as Bleak and Uncompromising as the Canadian Shield."

But "story" does in a pinch. It is also the conventional term for a prose work of fiction that isn't a novel. What would you prefer, exactly?

 

[LeandraNyx]

IDK why not. That's what they are: stories. Though I do like to distinguish between one-offs, mini-series, and full-length novels.

 

[NotWise]

IDK why not. That's what they are: stories. Though I do like to distinguish between one-offs, mini-series, and full-length novels.

Nah. They're all stories, unless they're something less.

For a lot of the stuff I've seen on Lit, "story" is a considerable compliment.

 

[sr71plt]

"Story" is certainly a preferred reference to them than what a lot of them are--not complete stories.

 

[lovecraft68]

I take story as a compliment because it acknowledges it had enough substance to be one.

I consider the short flat out one handed reads here as scenes because pretty much all they are is two people fucking with little to no reason why

 

[SimonDoom]

The question posed by the OP leaves me wondering, well, what's the alternative? What would I want a reader to call it?

I suppose some people have written novels, or novella-sized works, but most don't, and I haven't. I'm not sure what else I would expect than to have my stories called "stories." I won't object if they call them "masterpieces", but I won't hold my breath for that.

 

[hylas_]

Yeah, what else would one call them?