Thanks, yeah, this story just ended up being short rather than a novella or a novel. That’s 100% alright. In that case I agree with @DoomVroom. My first “novel” and honestly the only one i finish was a lot of big sloppy kid handwriting in an old composition notebook. Which I came back a year or two later i turned into like a really big like 700 page notebook of slightly better preteen handwriting. By the way that story was absolutely terrible looking back but it really was what go me here lol. It took me years to get my word count up past like 1k long chapters.
My suggestions if its something you want to work on a little faster:
If you’re a reader, read or even better reread books you love or are like what you want to write. Stylistically, genre wise. As you read, take a minute to think about what you like about the story. How the authors do things differently than you. I’m not saying change how you write to be more like them, but use it to find things you may want to try out. Or even look at the story structure, the amount and type of events that happen. Expand off that maybe if its just in the future.
Just keep writing, you’re going to naturally change over time don’t worry.
Why you feel like you’ve improved try going back to an old story, and seeing if you can rewrite it better just one chapter even. See if there’s conflict, or character stuff you want add. Find places you want to expand on. Maybe in the future, if its something you’d like to do, you can get your story up the the length you want. If not, that’s alright too.
OOOO! We all love a good dystopian! This sounds awesome.
Yeah, all the tedious build up stuff can suckkkk to try to has out I feel that.
I’m sure you’re going to do great! Getting stuck sucks but once you get past it endgame is in sight!
yes i’m a reader. I already do this with the books I read hehe. I pick them apart, especially my favourites.
yay
oooh ok.
see, thing is, I don’t really want to write long things. i’m more of a short fiction and poetry person. but I’m not sure how to get published if my story isn’t exactly a novel but also not a short story?
These do exist! Storys of all length are valid. I cant rememeber the name but back in high school i actually found a book that was an collections of poems and separate novelettes that come together into a final short story where all the characters and timelines cometogether to drive the theme home. Im not sure if i can find it again but this does exist if youre interested in being published in the future.
Ive used microsoft, google byt i actuslly use calmly writer the most then edit and format in the others if i plan on sharing ut with people or doing anything serious. It has total customisable dark mode and focus features and is 15$ for an infintie license or u can use it free online.
A single central conflict: Most novellas explore a single, compelling central conflict. Because of their shorter length, novellas have less time to explore subplots and tend to focus on the main plot. Novellas generally have one main character and a handful of secondary characters. Because of length constraints, most of the character development will be focused on the protagonist.
me: writes dual POV novellete with like 15000 subplots
yes i’m a reader. I already do this with the books I read hehe. I pick them apart, especially my favourites.
