Yeah, so it’s snowing here. A lot. We have about four inches (so I’m told by the spawn with the ruler) and it’s still coming down. Hooray! I feel like watching Equilibrium or something equally delicious and playing the Sims 3 and generally being lazy. Yes, lazy. But I also feel like I should do some work. Which you know, isn’t lazy.
But I would like to say a couple things that I was thinking about…
A “book” is not a short story or even a novella. It has to deal with word count. I’m all for short stories, and I love novellas. But they are not books. And it sort of grates on my when writers call every piece they write a “book” when in fact, it’s a short story or a novella. A book to me is at least 50,000 words. Maybe there’s an official word count, I don’t know, but a “book” is NOT a short story, that’s all I can say. I have published a number of short stories and also novellas, and also novels, and while normally I’m the first to admit that I don’t know what the hell I’m doing and therefore can not tell you how to do it, too, I will say with utter confidence:
A book is not a short story.
M
December 19th, 2009 at 11:55 am · Link
LOL well said….and that’s coming from someone else who has no freaking clue…enjoy your snow Megan, up here in Canuk land I’m still waiting for some…and I do love my snow!
December 19th, 2009 at 1:36 pm · Link
@juliana stone:
I like snow too!
December 19th, 2009 at 1:21 pm · Link
i feel you on the sims. Sounds good today
December 19th, 2009 at 1:36 pm · Link
@cjd: I know. It feels so decadent and lazy but yet…I love the Sims!
December 21st, 2009 at 6:48 pm · Link
It’s snowed here too but not as much as were you are. Have you (or spawn) ever bouced on a snow covered trampoline? , it’s fun but you do get ever so slightly wet LOL. And yes I agree a novel is a book but a short story is exactly what it says it is a short story!