I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that.
I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books.
Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting.
The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.
I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the story itself that will carry me, and the reader, from beginning to end. Second, the story has to weave through larger themes that can illuminate the world of the subject.
I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.
Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write.
The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place.
Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate.
You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.