Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

While I have nothing against short fiction, the reason I’m not drawn to it is that I want to get to know the characters. That takes time.

My sweet spot tends to be a long stand-alone novel or a duology/trilogy.

When you go longer than that, into some epic series, I’m skeptical. By default I view it as someone writing for a career rather than to tell their optimal story, with *very* limited exceptions.
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Nate 8mo ago

I feel the same about movies vs TV. While TV shows can have the opposite problem and get dragged on too long, you can get ways more nuance in characters and plot over a season or two of TV than you can get in a movie.

I'm also trying my hand at writing, and it feels neat to bring something up as a plot point, then 30-50k words later and a few mentions it becomes a more major plot point. Something like that just feels way better than "oh this happened and the characters were blindsided"

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