/lit/ - Literature

>>23140124
My advice (as some dickhead on the internet) is to just focus on writing a good short story unselfconciously and then edit, edit, edit. Ultimately the form of a short story is the same building block you will make a novelette, novella, and novel into. Every chapter is essentially a short story, granted with the longer work you have the benefit if context from prior chapters, but also a pressure have it be coherent.

>>23130968
Also I guess I guess I'll share with /wg/ for completeness that I just put out my first novella. If any old heads here remember the guy who wrote the Morrowind fanfic about the guy getting roofied at a dinner party, or Baldcore posting - that was me.