Post by account_disabled on Jan 1, 2024 7:07:54 GMT
Today I want to take a short journey to discover the length of narrative texts, because I found quite diverse data online. Bonsai stories or micronarratives What are bonsai stories ? The name itself says it: short stories. But they have nothing to do with distilled books . Bonsai stories are not stories chopped up by an editor, but written with the author thinking small. In my opinion they are very useful for those who want to do writing exercises . But I think they are also useful to those who want to learn synthesis . 300 word short stories I like them a lot. A few years ago I set out to create an anthology of 366 300-word stories that had death as a common element. I wrote about 80 and then gave up. I even wrote 5 in one day. Someone has been posted here on the blog in years past.
I wrote two for the Delos Special Data selections and they were published in the collections 365 stories about the end of the world and 365 love stories . Read a 300-word story : “Cold.” 200 character stories Or jokes in the form of stories. I defined them this way when, years ago, the publishing house Edizioni XII launched a new competition for its anthology of shorts , stories of 200, 900 and 1800 characters . Those of 1800 characters basically correspond more or less to those of 300 words. But the 200 ones were difficult to write . You have the space of 2 sentences to tell a story . It's about 30 words. Yet I won the selection with two 200-character stories, when I was convinced I would win it with the 1800-character ones. 900 character stories They are half the size of the 1800 ones, so we are around 150 words.
I can't define them halfway between those of 200 and those of 1800, in fact when I wrote them for the selection I couldn't cut the ones twice as long, but rewrite them from scratch. Even in these, as in the 200 ones, synthesis is very important. I had the situation in mind, so I wrote the ending and the beginning and then the "devolution". Read a 900-character story : “Supply.” Short stories or short stories The actual story is usually divided into short stories and long stories (also called novelettes ). The length of a short story is between 1000 and 7500 words . Online I also found a length expressed in editorial folders, but in my opinion it is better in words. Furthermore, some consider the folder to have 1500 characters, others to 1800 and still others to 2000.
I wrote two for the Delos Special Data selections and they were published in the collections 365 stories about the end of the world and 365 love stories . Read a 300-word story : “Cold.” 200 character stories Or jokes in the form of stories. I defined them this way when, years ago, the publishing house Edizioni XII launched a new competition for its anthology of shorts , stories of 200, 900 and 1800 characters . Those of 1800 characters basically correspond more or less to those of 300 words. But the 200 ones were difficult to write . You have the space of 2 sentences to tell a story . It's about 30 words. Yet I won the selection with two 200-character stories, when I was convinced I would win it with the 1800-character ones. 900 character stories They are half the size of the 1800 ones, so we are around 150 words.
I can't define them halfway between those of 200 and those of 1800, in fact when I wrote them for the selection I couldn't cut the ones twice as long, but rewrite them from scratch. Even in these, as in the 200 ones, synthesis is very important. I had the situation in mind, so I wrote the ending and the beginning and then the "devolution". Read a 900-character story : “Supply.” Short stories or short stories The actual story is usually divided into short stories and long stories (also called novelettes ). The length of a short story is between 1000 and 7500 words . Online I also found a length expressed in editorial folders, but in my opinion it is better in words. Furthermore, some consider the folder to have 1500 characters, others to 1800 and still others to 2000.