Writing Times: Short Format or Long Format : what kind of writing you prefer?
By Ptrikha_2
@ptrikha_2 (45532)
India
September 17, 2017 3:04am CST
While writing, sometimes, we have ideas that can be described in a few paragraphs. Sometimes, we have stories or ideas that cannot be condensed in short format. For such things, we need longer format writing.
While one might be more easily be able to read shorter format blogs/stories/articles, at times, longer stuff like novels or non-fiction books can be as much exciting.
The question is: which format do you prefer? As for I, many a times, I have story ideas, which I find tough to fit in short format, and it becomes almost like a mini or full length novel, like the one I had submitted on Literacybase- 17 chapters and counting...
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@dramagirl26 (3259)
• Ringgold, Virginia
18 Sep 17
For books and stories, I prefer longer formats. Yet, for articles, blogs, or discussion posts I prefer to keep it short so I don't bog down readers.
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@ptrikha_2 (45532)
• India
21 Sep 17
@dramagirl26 very much similar to what I follow. So which is the latest Novel or story collection that you have read?
@petatonicsca (7070)
• Japan
17 Sep 17
I enjoy throwing paragraphs up on here for simple communication. But sometimes if I have something deeply thoughtful to say I spend days crafting it carefully and put it on my blog. I have one idea that has been cooking for over a year that I haven't started writing yet.
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@ptrikha_2 (45532)
• India
17 Sep 17
@LadyDuck do you prefer reading a 500 page+ novel, or a shorter - may be up to 300 pages book or novel, or short story collection?
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@ptrikha_2 (45532)
• India
17 Sep 17
@LadyDuck Oh great- did you write fiction or non-fiction?
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@ptrikha_2 (45532)
• India
21 Sep 17
@LadyDuck Oh ok its fine- even I made that you did this mistake.
I recall one incident: Back in 2013, during heydays of Bubblews, I was responding to an article on Wikinut and I was so much into Bubblews that I wrote something like: "As per what you wrote on your last Bubblews article......" and the author of that work replied "what?" - he was so shocked, and then I corrected my mistake
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@hereandthere (45651)
• Philippines
17 Sep 17
i had no problem reading books in the past, but with the internet and computers and cellphone, i find i tend to skim long text now when i'm in bed reading a newspaper or magazine before going to sleep.
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