The Lifewriting approach to your writing career demands a relatively high creative output. It isnt designed to coddle people who nurse a single story for years before sending it out.
But students often protest that they simply dont come up with many good ideas, and that the ideas they do generate are appropriate for novels.
In my opinion, basic ideas have no intrinsic length. The TREATMENT of an idea has an intrinsic length. The Civil War can be treated in a one-page story, on in a library of books. It all depends on the skill and intent of the writer.
Let me tell you a story:
When I was in college, I knew a woman who wanted to be a writer. She told me that she was working on a short story, and I said great. A few weeks later, I asked her how the story was going. She said Its getting a little longI think its a novella.
Great! I said.
A couple of months later, I asked her how the novella was going. Well, its getting a little long, I think its a novel!
Wow! I said, although a warning bell was tinkling at the back of my mind. A couple of years later, I asked her how the novel was going.
Well, it seems to be turning...
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