When Should You Create Short Stories -- The Five Problems Short Stories Solve

[Story_Marc]

Newest entry in all this work I've been doing focused on shortform, regarding when it should be done. With webnovelist types, this is particularly useful given stuff I plan to discuss soon with series and serials. Regardless, hopefully this helps and adds to what I've been doing lately.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Heh. I had an idea for a short story that I had no real plan what to do with ... until the thought of inserting it in a longer story, as a kind of an aside that is a little relevant to the main story hit me...

 

[Eldoria]

What if each chapter could be considered a short story because it could be understood as a standalone discourse?

 

[Story_Marc]

What if each chapter could be considered a short story because it could be understood as a standalone discourse?

That's an episodic series! I actually plan to go more into series and serial stuff in a few weeks. This is basically the building blocks to something bigger.

Heh. I had an idea for a short story that I had no real plan what to do with ... until the thought of inserting it in a longer story, as a kind of an aside that is a little relevant to the main story hit me...

If that works, that works!