“A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.” WritingEnoughStoriesInstinctIntuitionBackgroundsShort StorySketchingStory Writers Author:Lynn Abbey
“For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.” WritingStoriesNovelHarderShort Story Author:Lynn Abbey
“I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.” I CanStoriesLiteratureFantasyNovelImagineCastsGenreFantasy Novels Author:Lynn Abbey
“Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.” WritingMadeTwoDifferentStoriesNovelReaderBalanceCommitmentSpotsNovelistsDullGet AwayShort StoryExquisiteStory Writing Author:Lynn Abbey
“I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.” WritingStoriesLiteratureNovelCenturyFilledShort Story19th CenturyDenseHelium Author:Lynn Abbey
“Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy.” StoriesUniverseHoursHalfMillionsWrittenCreatingTrilogies Author:Lynn Abbey
