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Originally Posted by Joykins
I reviewed 507 books in a year...I've cut back. I was starting to feel like a grouchy, overcritical Harriet Klausner.
40 pages per work (max) seems to be my limit. I have a great deal of admiration for anyone who finishes a novel-length work; I haven't done it to date. On the other hand, I seem to be one of those people with a knack for short-shorts, which I wouldn't dare sell individually.
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I know what you mean. I stopped reviewing for the pro site because I could not bear to force myself through another book I didn't like. I was turning into something a lot more lethal than a grouchy Klausner!!!
Nothing wrong with writing shorts; there's a smaller market for them, but it takes a lot of talent to tell a story in a short space. And a novel is really just a lot of short stories strung together with a few arcs tying the pieces together.
Well, in simplified logic. Sometimes I have to tell myself that a novel is just one word strung after another word to get myself to write full sentences for the day!!!