Sentences with phrase «novel than a short story»

Of her work Fish has said, «I would like it to be more of a novel than a short story, so you could go back in and see something different another time.»

Not exact matches

His first novel, Morte D'Urban (1962), won the National Book Award, as did a third short - story collection, Look How the Fish Live (1973) Although more uneven than the first two collections, this book still contained the requisite number of outstanding pieces.

After all, he's a man who has published more than 50 novels including that evergreen high - school requirement Fahrenheit 451, and written hundreds of short stories and a host of screenplays, including the adaptation of Moby Dick for legendary director John Huston.

They say that in war time people read short stories rather than novels.

Because Reinisch works with so many collaborators on multiple different aspects of membrane trafficking, her work is «more like thematic collections of short stories than a full - length novel,» she says.

I have absolutely been caught up in infatuation before, thinking that I had this awesome love story with this person, but it turns out that the «fairy tale» was more of a short story than a novel, lol.

In a lifetime of movie - going I've been happier with movies adapted from short stories than movies adapted from novels, and movies adapted from novels more than those made from plays.

Killing Them Softly, by contrast, is sly and sharp, yet somehow slender — more cinematic short story than novel.

In addition, her talents are thought to be alarmingly broad: She writes novels and short stories, paints, sings in bands, directs movies and documentaries, wins Italian versions of the Oscar, embraces full - frontal nudity in print and onscreen, and can speculate with more than coffeehouse intelligence on excess, God and redemption.

Many critics have misinterpreted this as a requirement that high school English teachers spend no more than 30 percent of their class time on poetry, short stories, novels, and plays.

After finishing my novel, I tried my hand at writing a few short stories for a blog I started, and realized what people have been saying forever, writing short stories is a lot more difficult than writing a whole novel.

The result was a recognition by Amazon that novels should receive more than short stories.

Further, that short story is more likely to qualify for the royalty than the novel because that magical 10 % mark can be reached before the reader actually gets to the story.

In a season filled with long - awaited novels, this just might be the juggernaut — Salter's last novel, Solo Faces, was published more than 30 years ago, and it's been seven years since he published his last work of fiction, the short story collection Last Night.

Kinder Than Solitude (Random House) is Li's second novel and fourth book (her two others were short story collections).

The pages of a novel will not be more valuable than the pages of a short story, a novelette, or a novella.

Jonathan's road from his first published short story in 1978 to being a full - time indie author of more than thirty novels of (mostly) military science fiction.

When I used a different editor for a short story last winter, I even had a reader point out that it had more errors than she was used to in my novels.

I can certainly see how a short story could be a better reading experience than a 400 page novel.

It also helps that I generally write short stories in a lot less time than the novel, so I don't «forget» as much of what I wrote

* Flash fiction: Less than 2,000 words * Short story: 2,000 - 7,500 words * Novelette: 7,500 - 25,000 words * Novella: 25 - 50,000 words * Novel: 50 - 125,000 words * Epic novel: 200,000 words orNovel: 50 - 125,000 words * Epic novel: 200,000 words ornovel: 200,000 words or more

I tend to read short stories rather than novels when I'm doing a lot of writing because stories that can be consumed in a single sitting are easier on my attention span after a long writing day.

Nelson DeMille is the author of more than a dozen novels, co-authored Mayday with Thomas Block and has contributed short stories, book reviews, and articles to numerous magazines and newspapers.

The system offers a publishing platform, meaning the novels, short stories, poetry and essays available through the app are more likely to be written by «Joe Bloggs» than J.K. Rowling.

The contest is open only to those who have not professionally published a novel or short novel, or more than one novelette, or more than three short stories, in any medium.

These short shorts, usually no more than 750 words, range from linear narratives to the more unusual: stories based on mathematical forms, a paragraph - length novel, a scientific report on volcanic fireflies that proliferate in nightclubs.

Most contemporary novels are written from first - or third - person perspectives, but many prominent writers (such as Junot Diaz and Lorrie Moore) have written short stories from a second - person POV on more than one occasion.

I still wish Amazon would adjust the payouts for the titles in the program so it is more fair — a short story should not get more for a borrow than it would for a sale and a novel should get more than a short story, imo — but the borrows are still money I might not have made.

I have seen this done successfully in short stories, where you get to the punch line (as it were) sooner rather than later, but never in a series of novels with a slow reveal.

The epiphany (whether considered as a technique or an effect or a theory or a genre) is a much more useful concept for the short story than it is for the novel.

It's a whole lot easier to publish a short story than a novel: there are thousands of literary magazines and contests in the US, but only five major book publishing houses.

Both Penguin Group and Random House have initiated their own short story digital publishing platforms and, while the programs do meet the needs of customers in terms of a low price - point and a shorter format than novels, the real gain to be made is not just in terms of bringing back readers» demands for a historically - loved format.

Pretty sure Salter wins the «most long - awaited» award: His last novel, Solo Faces, was published more than 30 years ago, and it's been seven years since he published his last work of fiction, the short story collection Last Night.

Our picks for book clubs this month are a literary superstar's short story collection, a stranger - than - fiction tale of two brothers and a timely novel of corruption and celebrity!

I felt it should have been a short story rather than a book, although it is a very short novel.

Her writing pedigree is too long to list here, but it includes numerous short stories and more than a dozen novels.

Charlie Jane Anders lists eighteen short stories that pack more of a punch than most novels.

John Updike is the author of more than fifty books, including collections of short stories, poems, criticism and novels.

Unlike printing where there are limitations on the length of stories that can be economically printed and distributed, digital works can easily be shorter (or longer) than the limited range of traditional novels.

It does make me wonder if works will be sorted out by length in the future — perhaps a minimum price will be set for novels rather than selling the at the same price as a short story.

Shorter than a novel but longer than a short story or novelette, novellas typically dramatize individual events or a short series of events.

Short story collections don't sell as well as novels, and that made it even harder for new authors to break in to short - story writing than into novel - length ficShort story collections don't sell as well as novels, and that made it even harder for new authors to break in to short - story writing than into novel - length ficshort - story writing than into novel - length fiction.

The full story is here, but in short, creating a paperback at Createspace was cheaper than copying his novel at Kinko's, and the ebook was an easy way to distribute copies at no cost to his friends.

Pulp fiction was where authors started out because it paid less than «traditional» markets (they were mostly short stories), but with indie novels, I think (some) authors are making more money than comparable traditional publishing contracts (and I see some trad - pub authors supplementing their income with self - pub, which is also similar to some of the pulp fiction writers of the past).

I will, however: — write in my blogs about things other than publishing — work on my next novel and story collection — play lots of sims — write and share a short illustrated story, to see if I can — tweet whatever I want — read and review books when I want — make art, if I feel like it — make some new things for my Etsy shop — upload multitudes of unsorted travel photos from this summer — clean my house and get ahead of my laundry situation — help my son learn addition and subtraction — get away from the internet sometimes — experience daylight

I added short - story «Easter eggs» to my novels, frequently using a unique POV than one in the novel, and deliberately labeled with a page warning, «Erotic Easter Egg!»

Since then he has published ten additional novels and more than a hundred short stories.

There are those who say you should never sell anything longer than a short story for less than $ 2.99 and a novel should never be sold for less than $ 4.99.

But writing for the Web is much different than writing a short story or novel.

James Lee Burke, a rare winner of two Edgar Awards, and named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America, is the New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty novels and two collections of short stories.