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Originally Posted by cromag
Good luck, guys!
(I, for one, was born with a short story mindset. I've got some ideas, but no novel length ones!)
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And best of luck to you too!
As for mindsets, I know I'm novelist material. I tend to think slow and I tend to think big. As in, I start thinking of a situation and end up with a pretty complicated universe.
A Russian writer once said that short stories are harder and take longer to master than novels. Maybe not for everyone, but I know what he means. It's like the difference between a movie and a photograph. You can have a movie that consists of moderately pretty or even merely adequate images but still tells a good story. But for a photograph to be good, that single image has to be special. And learning to see those special images might take time for us misty-minded novelists
Anyway, I'm not sure it's against the NaNo rules to write a few short stories instead of a novel. You might even pretend you're writing a cycle
And/or put your stories in the same universe (if that makes any sense for your ideas).