I was also struck by the data on how long it took people to publish
their first novel. Most people wrote 2 novels before they sold the
third. Just like Nicky D. told me! I think he must be right about
EVerything now.
There was also a smaller population, though, that sold the first thing
they wrote.
This was a fascinating survey.
On Mar 29, 2010, at 8:21 PM, SteveC wrote:
The separation between the novel markets and the short story markets
took place a long time ago, when fantasy and vampires and space wars
became the dominant modes for novels. Those don't translate into short
stories very well. And the kind of short stories people write don't
translate into those types of novels.
Earl Derr Biggers, the creator of Charlie Chan, once was asked why he
never wrote a Charlie Chan short story. He said, essentially, that if
he got a good idea for a story he wrote it as a novel. That's pretty
much the same today. People write worlds at 900 pages. That pays 900
times as much as a short story so why even bother?
Not to mention that's there's only room for a half dozen short stories
in a magazine and Nancy usually has three of those spots.
On Mar 29, 5:22 pm, delancey <[email protected]> wrote:
This is very interesting, in fact. I was surprised that short story
publications seemed to matter so very very little.
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