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I just sent a few stories around 1.3-2k each and I’m worried that they’ll be dead on arrival due to their length

>> No.21811114

>>21811086
For sale: baby shoes, never worn.

>> No.21811170

Correction: 1.3-2k words **

>> No.21811181

>>21811086
Unless it is so incredibly nuanced that a mid-wit can understand the value, and at the same time someone intelligent can find multiple interpretive meanings then yeah, that’s essay length.

Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t post them anon. :)

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>>21811086
Some of the rags will take shorter fiction to fill space, but anything with a length that has to be described by a cringy neologism is DOA.

>> No.21811234

My favorite short story is no longer than 5 pages or so.

>> No.21811242

Shortest I've seen is Incarnations of Burned Children, and that's around 1 1/2 pages

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>>21811181
>>21811185
>>21811234
>>21811242
How fucked am I?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M6si85j9Q2pvIQA86VQwgH-3zCPcg5ne/view?usp=sharing

>> No.21811304

>>21811086
Fwiw lots of classics aren't much longer than that like Chaucer's The Cooks Tale for example. Also>>21811114

>> No.21811354

>>21811114
For sale: baby shoes, bout tree fiddy.

>> No.21811424

>>21811298
I think the length works with the ambiguity; these remind me of some Benjamin Percy short stories or Shirley Jackson even. I think sometimes the specialized language gets in the way of other things, like pacing; the focus so much on describing setting in the first few paragraphs feels like a slow start for the length that they are.

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>>21811298
Nigga you posted this the other day too. I was the one who said it was 8/10. Why are you so eager to get your work out there? I hope you’re using substack at least and might as well start a vlog with a tripcode. Keep building my ninja.

>> No.21811483

>>21811086
shorter stories are more likely to get picked up. It's when stories are too long that you should be worried.

>> No.21811498

>>21811424
>I think sometimes the specialized language gets in the way of other things, like pacing; the focus so much on describing setting in the first few paragraphs feels like a slow start for the length that they are.
Noted

>>21811430
>why are you so eager?
I want to mog the people in my English department. Plus, it’s more productive to write than to coom all day or play vidya.
>substack
What’s that? And thanks. I’ll keep building my skills and try to one day make something of some worth.

>> No.21811907

>>21811498
The only value your product has is apparently the promotion of your own ego so I'm not so sure it is more productive than that by any meaningful standard.

>> No.21811909

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XrbTqiQGcg

>> No.21812015

>>21811907
By that standard everything I do is unproductive.

>> No.21812410

Sam Hyde for class president!