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For whatever reason, I seem to have a short story focus. When ideas come to me they just seem to be "short story" material. I'm happy to write them as short stories.
If your ideas are, or can be, self-contained short stories, I'd go that route. One way or the other, you'll benefit from writing -- and completing -- some works. If they align into a series of short stories, great. There are plenty of really good short story series out there. If the practice and confidence you gain from writing stories gives birth to a novel -- well, that's great, too.
Although I do think that there's a difference between a complete short story and an episode in a novel.
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