I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and I'm enjoying it.
Most of my short stories are fantasy.
Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.
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.
Though my stories aren't autobiographical, I do sometimes use things from my life.
I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.
I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.
All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard.
I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner party conversations and some even crawl out of the dusty remote recesses of my imagination.
I've never been a true fan of the short story and have only published a single example of my own.