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7322215 No.7322215 [Reply] [Original]

I've been trying my hand at writing short stories since I have trouble sticking with something longer and I'm finding that the medium has real some really huge flaws.

There isn't enough time to get the reader attached to the characters, and the plot is too short to develop into something complex. You basically have to boil a story down to one or the other and even then it's really difficult to do that in the given length.

Any tips /lit/?

>> No.7322221

>>7322215
Stop being a lazy irresolute faggot then

>> No.7322224

>>7322221
I meant about short stories

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7322454

>>7322215

I take it you don't read short stories a lot because any well-read person can tell you there are some really great ones have very compelling characters and pack a lot of story into just a few pages.

And overall what's with /lit/'s underrating short stories and short story collectings? Many of them are just as entertaining and valuable as the doorstopper novels everyone here loves.

>> No.7322599

>>7322454
I can only think of two that really spoke to me, Paper Menagerie, and The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn