Hey everyone, I wanna try and gather some data from my readers about the length and detail of my stories. I have some readers say my stories are too long, while other people say they're glad that my stories have a lot of content.
I personally prefer longer stories with a lot of detail, but I can understand if my stories are a bit of a slog sometimes. I can struggle reading a longer story too, but, the thing I feel is important is pacing. I work hard at making sure my stories are not only long but faced paced with minimal-or-no passive-voice. I just have trouble finding short stories immersive, but that might just be me.
So what do you all think? Are my stories too long, and if so, why? Is it too much detail? Too much content? Or perhaps the pacing not right?
Again, my goal is to have stories where stuff happens *fast* but *a lot of stuff happens too*, but I do have readers who feel like multiple paragraphs of swallowing prey is a bit much. I wrote a WIP that a few beta readers are very much enjoying and verbally rewarding me for condensing my content... but the thing is that this WIP feels *lazy* to me, and I was thinking it would be nice to have stories like that for variety, but I feel like if I kept writing like that I'd alienate my readers for dropping the rich detail I try to put into my scenes.
But maybe they're not so much rich as bloated...
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15 May 2020 05:05 CEST
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