Congrats on your first year!! Here's to many more of them.
I get you with short stories, it's also less of an issue if you release on and it's a damp squib. Releasing a novel which crashes and burns hurts. I love writing shorts.
As Ray Bradbury said:
"If you can write one short story a week—it doesn't matter what the quality is to start, but at least you're practicing, and at the end of the year you have 52 short stories, and I defy you to write 52 bad ones."
Thank you! Short stories have really been a lot of fun to write. And I agree, I think another reason I started working on short stories was...it hurts less if they aren't received well. If I get a rejection or people don't respond to something I wrote in an afternoon, I'm not really hurt compared to the same response to a full novel that took me months or years.
Congrats on your first year!! Here's to many more of them.
I get you with short stories, it's also less of an issue if you release on and it's a damp squib. Releasing a novel which crashes and burns hurts. I love writing shorts.
As Ray Bradbury said:
"If you can write one short story a week—it doesn't matter what the quality is to start, but at least you're practicing, and at the end of the year you have 52 short stories, and I defy you to write 52 bad ones."
Thank you! Short stories have really been a lot of fun to write. And I agree, I think another reason I started working on short stories was...it hurts less if they aren't received well. If I get a rejection or people don't respond to something I wrote in an afternoon, I'm not really hurt compared to the same response to a full novel that took me months or years.