Episode 1.10: Story Length
Mad Writers Union
English - June 01, 2016 04:04 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsBooks Arts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Story length can be confusing to some writers and none more so than Nina. The Mad Writers help Nina figure out what is going wrong and why her short stories keep accidentally turning into novels and novellas. They work through the Hugo definitions of the various story lengths as well as working through the things that make stories longer as you write.Notable NotesOrson Scott Card's MICE method as explained by Karen Woodward
Writing Excuses MICE episode
Writing Excuses episode on Short Stories - in which Mary Robinette Kowal explains her calculations
Recommended Reading Tim's recommendation: Updraft (Bone Universe) by Fran Wilde
Jay's recommendation: Hawkmoon: The Jewel in the Skull by Michael Moorcock
Nina's recommendation: Archangel (The Chronicles of Ubastis) by Marguerite Reed