My first five novels were written longhand. So were hosts of short stories.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.
Once I started writing novels, I understood how hard it was to write really good short stories.
I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that made me want to be a writer were novels.
I had novels to write, so I wrote them.
I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.
The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.
I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.
Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.
For years, I felt I was a novelist, but now I know I can write short fiction.
Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.