I don't like short stories because I find that they try to squeeze too much information into too little words. I think this makes the story very confusing and hard to comprehend. What makes a good story?- a good short story is one that i am not forced to read, but if i have to read a short story a good one is simple, sweet, short, and to the point. In class we have read "The Lady and the Tiger" and "The Interlopers". The authors of these short stories try to make them interesting by using suspense, iron, and conflict. In "the Interlopers" the author used irony by having the enemies die from wolves in the woods after they finally ended their ling time feud. In "The Lady and the Tiger" the author made it suspenseful at the end by not telling the reader which came out of the door to meet the handsome man, the lady or the tiger? This suspense makes the reader wonder what happened for a while even after they finish the short story. Unfortunetly I never actually find myself interested in the short story even if the author is an amazing writer. I think long novels are better because they have more detail but its isnt all compacted causing the reader to be confused, rather details can be spread out and their are more events. I find that wehn i am in a reading mood that i want to sit down and read one long story for a while rather then multiple short stories.
i am interested in Nano/Gano. i think it will be fun to express myself trough writing, but i will only be writing 8,000 words rather then 50,000 because i have a life and dont feel like wasting it on that much time towards writing. That's my honest opinion. =)
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