Which one you prefer, a Long or short story?

Mirage · Post by **Mirage** » Sun Jan 18, 2004 12:42 pm

Which one you prefer?

A short one shot story that is quick to read?

or

A long story with many chapters that span for days or weeks to read the complete tale?

Just wondering.

Mirage

maax · Post by **maax** » Sun Jan 18, 2004 1:14 pm

Should be 'Any story I can get my hands on.

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Stephaniebot · Post by **Stephaniebot** » Sun Jan 18, 2004 2:32 pm

As I tend to write quite lengthy stories I know which way I had to vote. Because of both their length and the fact that they tend to be more robot transformation stories,than android life ones I dont post them here,but if anyone wants to know where they are they only have to ask me.
Oh what the heck they are at www.mcstories.com under the name of robotunit8.If anyone wants me to post some here just ask and I will do so,but as I say they are more transformation types than the ones usually posted here.
Stephanie.

tc · Post by tc » Sun Jan 18, 2004 3:01 pm

It depends on the story. Some stories work very well being short, others are better in many chapters.

tectile · Post by **tectile** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 6:05 am

I gues if I had to pick one, I would say I prefer a story with several installments. If for no other reason than this format lets a writer more fully develope characters and plot lines.

Baron · Post by **Baron** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 11:59 am

tc wrote:It depends on the story. Some stories work very well being short, others are better in many chapters.

I'll second this - it really depends on the story.

ehy · Post by **ehy** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 1:36 pm

A good story.

Brytestar · Post by **Brytestar** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 11:24 pm

Well I casted my vote.

xanderfox · Post by **xanderfox** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 1:01 pm

I perfer stories with content I enjoy. Many tales I've
read have most of thier content focused on sex screans,
I tend to be turned off by that. Always seems like if
the story focuses on sex 75-95% of the time, the rest
of the content is unimportant to the author and won't
be developed. If a story is long it better hold my intrest
and not devolve into nothing but sex scean after sex
scean.

keraptis · Post by **keraptis** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 8:39 pm

Wow, I'm amazed at the poll results. Somewhat encouraging for those of us who've written some very long stories in our time!

I agree that it depends on the story though. There are some great one-act stories out there. Some long stories are really a long build-up to one spectacular scene, which also works well because you tend to read the whole thing once the first time and focus on the "good part" if and when you ever go back to it.

Looking back at my own stuff, there are definitely individual chapters that I think could stand on their own--good characters, good pacing, good payoff--and those are the ones I feel were most successful. But when you write a long and complicated story you inevitably have a couple of chapters that feel weighed down by exposition or dialogue. Hopefully, readers who stick with the story when it bogs down a bit feel rewarded when the action picks up again. But there's always a risk that they won't bother.

That's why I'm so glad that people seem to like the longer stories. Great to see.

33cl33 · Post by **33cl33** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 11:10 am

I'm going to have to go with the longer form.

Which one you prefer, a Long or short story?

When reading a story Which do you prefer?

Which one you prefer, a Long or short story?

Option 3...

More intrested in content than lenght