#5
Q: Why do I like writing short shorts?
I’ve had this massive rash of them. Because, you see, I’m taking a short stories writing class at uni this semester. At first, I thought it was just going to be painful, because I know I like to write long arcs and stuff. And when the teacher told me we’d be doing “short short” stories first— i.e. stories at about the 1000-word length— I half-freaked, but also told myself, okay, honey, you’ve written 10,000 words before. A thousand is a scene. You do good scenes.
And boy, do I ever do good scenes. I can’t seem to stop writing them now. After I got past a misguided imitation of another short story we read in class, and started trying for shorts about random stuff that inspired me, and I can’t stop now.
NOTE: Knocking out another one of those is exactly why this post is late, too. *grumbles*
