Support thread for people who have really short...

[damppanties]

...stories.

I can't ever understand word counts in tens of thousands. My mind refuses to register the words 'word count' and more than four digits of the same together. My body begins to tremble (no, not in a good way) and I find it hard to breathe in, breathe out. The most I have ever written is somewhere around 5,000 words, and that I consider my limit, to which I stretch only when tested.

Add to this, the survivors. I have 32 submissions in four and a half years. The 2005 Survivor winner had 502 submissions in a year.

Among all this proliferation, I need to know there are others like me there. I need reassurance. I need a 'slow and steady wins the race' story. I need.

Help!

 

[Fallenfromgrace]

Awwww jaan...did i scare you with my 26000 work in progress?

im sorry!

It's just how i am, i dont feel i can say what i want to in a shorter story. Unless its a stroke.

*cuddle*

im sure there are lots of author's who write much shorter stories than me

*hugggggllllleeeeee*

 

[damppanties]

im sure there are lots of author's who write much shorter stories than me

Where?

 

[Fallenfromgrace]

Where?

i havent read around long enough to be able to point you in their direction

 

[rgraham666]

I'm al over the map.

Some as short as 2,500 words, A couple over 20,000.

I do have trouble imagining writing a novel though.

 

[Fallenfromgrace]

I do have trouble imagining writing a novel though.

i think the way im going i might make it lol.

 

[damppanties]

I'm al over the map.

Some as short as 2,500 words, A couple over 20,000.

I do have trouble imagining writing a novel though.

I didn't see the last '0' in your twenty thou, RG. Blind spot.

 

[damppanties]

i think the way im going i might make it lol.

*giving you a dirty look*

You're supposed to help us underproductive writers come to term with our underproductivity, not talk about your novels.

This is a support thread!

 

[Fallenfromgrace]

*giving you a dirty look*

You're supposed to help us underproductive writers come to term with our underproductivity, not talk about your novels.

This is a support thread!

ooooh you look SO hot when you look at me like that...do it again ?

oh uh...what? oh yeh...support...yes...i support you in your endeavors

 

[CharleyH]

...stories.

I can't ever understand word counts in tens of thousands. My mind refuses to register the words 'word count' and more than four digits of the same together. My body begins to tremble (no, not in a good way) and I find it hard to breathe in, breathe out. The most I have ever written is somewhere around 5,000 words, and that I consider my limit, to which I stretch only when tested.

Add to this, the survivors. I have 32 submissions in four and a half years. The 2005 Survivor winner had 502 submissions in a year.

Among all this proliferation, I need to know there are others like me there. I need reassurance. I need a 'slow and steady wins the race' story. I need.

Help!

If it is any consolation, survivour winners don't actually write a lot of words per story.

 

[damppanties]

If it is any consolation, survivour winners don't actually write a lot of words per story.

They have to write a *gasp* novella. It's broken into chapters, but it still is one looooong story.

 

[CharleyH]

They have to write a *gasp* novella. It's broken into chapters, but it still is one looooong story.

Not really

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

They have to write a *gasp* novella. It's broken into chapters, but it still is one looooong story.

Technically, not really. Up until now, they could write 750-word chapters and count it as a novella (and when you write them a chapter at a time, it's not difficult) and have it counted for points (even if they didn't finish the series, I think). However, there is likely going to be a rule addition for 2007 that states any submission to that particular category must be around 8,000 words (haven't settled exactly on length yet).

 

[Fallenfromgrace]

Technically, not really. Up until now, they could write 750-word chapters and count it as a novella (and when you write them a chapter at a time, it's not difficult) and have it counted for points (even if they didn't finish the series, I think). However, there is likely going to be a rule addition for 2007 that states any submission to that particular category must be around 8,000 words (haven't settled exactly on length yet).

i thought novella had to be 50,000 (sorry dampy...)
even if split into parts?

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

i thought novella had to be 50,000 (sorry dampy...)
even if split into parts?

Definition of novella varies depending on the source. The beginning range for that is anywhere from 12,000-17,500 (a few go as high as 20,000). Novels usually starts around 50,000 or more.

 

[damppanties]

i thought novella had to be 50,000 (sorry dampy...)
even if split into parts?

Agh. It burns!

 

[Fallenfromgrace]

Definition of novella varies depending on the source. The beginning range for that is anywhere from 12,000-17,500 (a few go as high as 20,000). Novels usually starts around 50,000 or more.

ah yes...im thinking Novel's not novellas

Agh. It burns!

ever heard of a google?...i'll write a story with that many zero's after it and i'll call it 'dampy's nightmare'

 

[FallingToFly]

I'll lend my support. I've had several stories that I actually had to ADD useless words to in order to make the 750 minimum requirement. I write shortshortshort fiction too.

I also write novel/novella length shite, but that's a minority percentage of my output.

And I procrastinate.

And I start stories and don't finish (just ask my readers, they're all pissed off at me) and I do short stories that tie together in weird ways.

I support you, dampy. Especially your breasts. *nods* they need firm and continuous support.

 

[TE999]

...stories.

I can't ever understand word counts in tens of thousands. My mind refuses to register the words 'word count' and more than four digits of the same together. My body begins to tremble (no, not in a good way) and I find it hard to breathe in, breathe out. The most I have ever written is somewhere around 5,000 words, and that I consider my limit, to which I stretch only when tested.

Add to this, the survivors. I have 32 submissions in four and a half years. The 2005 Survivor winner had 502 submissions in a year.

Among all this proliferation, I need to know there are others like me there. I need reassurance. I need a 'slow and steady wins the race' story. I need.

Help!

Help is on the way, dampie (sorta).

I like to write short stories!

Five of my submissions are one Lit. page in length.

Three are two pages.

One is three pages.

And one is four.

I like em' short, sweet and to the point.

Like my posts(lol).

All this in seven months.

Not all of us are meant to be novelists.

Frankly, I don't have the patience to focus on something that long.

But to each, their own.

Just think, if I was Leo Tolstoi, I wouldn't have written 'War and Peace'.

Hey, that's a good thing, what a snore to read--forced to in college BTW.

How's that for support?

Just keep writin'.

Do what suits ya'.

Peace.

 

[impressive]

...stories.

I can't ever understand word counts in tens of thousands. My mind refuses to register the words 'word count' and more than four digits of the same together. My body begins to tremble (no, not in a good way) and I find it hard to breathe in, breathe out. The most I have ever written is somewhere around 5,000 words, and that I consider my limit, to which I stretch only when tested.

Add to this, the survivors. I have 32 submissions in four and a half years. The 2005 Survivor winner had 502 submissions in a year.

Among all this proliferation, I need to know there are others like me there. I need reassurance. I need a 'slow and steady wins the race' story. I need.

Help!

Get a wordy writing partner. *nods*

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

Hey Dampy, be of good cheer. There's no magic to longness. Some of the greatest works of lit in the universe are short. Let a hundred flowers bloom, say I. Some write short, some long, some frequent, some seldom - what's the diff? We're all writerly sorts here, in a rather odd genre outside the mainstream that's often looked down on. As such, we form kind of a band of brothers and sisters - that's the important thing.

 

[Fallenfromgrace]

Hey Dampy, be of good cheer. There's no magic to longness. Some of the greatest works of lit in the universe are short. Let a hundred flowers bloom, say I. Some writer short, some long, some frequent, some seldom - what's the diff? We're all writerly sorts in a rather odd genre outside the mainstream that's often looked on, and so we form kind of a band of brothers and sisters here - that's the important thing.

Wise words as ever Rox . This will do wonder's for our Dampy's self confidence

*steals up behind Dampy, wrapping arms around her waist, pushing her hair aside and showering the back and sides of her neck in playful kisses* (coz im annoying like that and want to play to her repressed lesbian side )

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

Wise words as ever Rox . This will do wonder's for our Dampy's self confidence

*steals up behind Dampy, wrapping arms around her waist, pushing her hair aside and showering the back and sides of her neck in playful kisses* (coz im annoying like that and want to play to her repressed lesbian side )

(Grabs Dampy when she laughingly escapes and holds her so Grace can shower more embarassing kisses. )

 

[starrkers]

Help is on the way, dampie (sorta).

I like to write short stories!

Five of my submissions are one Lit. page in length.

Three are two pages.

One is three pages.

And one is four.

I like em' short, sweet and to the point.

Like my posts(lol).

All this in seven months.

Not all of us are meant to be novelists.

Frankly, I don't have the patience to focus on something that long.

But to each, their own.

Just think, if I was Leo Tolstoi, I wouldn't have written 'War and Peace'.

Hey, that's a good thing, what a snore to read--forced to in college BTW.

How's that for support?

Just keep writin'.

Do what suits ya'.

Peace.

I can't imagine writing four pages worth! My longest (and before I submitted it I thought it was a fair old length) makes about 1 and a half pages...

Definitely one of the "brevity is the soul of wit" brigade

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Damp, I was taught that "the length of a story is as long as it takes to tell." Most of my stories are 2500 - 3000 words. I have written much longer stories on occasion, but, I don't find stories that run 3 or 4 Lit pages all that readable.

A novel is a different kind of cat. Not only are the longer, but have many more main and background characters, much more complex plots and so on.

Most of the chapter stories I see on Lit are not novels, even those that run 20 plus chapters. They are separate short stories strung together by some comon thread.

When you have a story to tell, you will tell it. If you are anything like me, you don't really write your stories. The stories write themselves. You come up with an idea and it cooks in the back of your head for a day, a month, a year or maybe a lifetime. But when the story decides it's time, it will write itself.

JJ