On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the fact that there's no real paying market for short horror other than Cemetery Dance.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.
I got a couple of stories published, but the kind of money you were making for publishing a short story, I could see I wasn't going to make a living at it.
To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form.
Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested.
I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.
I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.
I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me.
I love stories. But I don't distinguish so much between a short story and a novel. Personally, when I sit down to read a novel or a Chekhov story, I'm seeking the same thing: I'm seeking that same rich portrayal of life in words.
I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.
It got to the point where most of my time went toward writing novels. I would still occasionally write short stories, but only when I was commissioned by an editor to write for a themed anthology or special issue.