28. Writing a short story is a different skill set, but I think long fic is harder in the end because you have to keep it up longer. (*cue adolescent snickering at that sentence*) I can respect that, but it's still discouraging to see people say things like "anything less than 20k is unsatifying" because it tends to come across as "so if you can't produce that you shouldn't even bother".
I dunno about anyone else, but I often find I just don't have time to read something that long, anyway. 10k (about half an hour) is usually my upper limit of "light reading". I'm not against long stuff on principle and will sometimes commit to reading longer things (20-40k) if they are well-recommended, but the prospect of trying to catch up on a long WIP that is already into the hundreds of thousands of words is usually just too daunting. (I raise my eyebrows when a fic author has a single work that surpasses the entirety of the original canon.)
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28. Writing a short story is a different skill set, but I think long fic is harder in the end because you have to keep it up longer. (*cue adolescent snickering at that sentence*) I can respect that, but it's still discouraging to see people say things like "anything less than 20k is unsatifying" because it tends to come across as "so if you can't produce that you shouldn't even bother".
I dunno about anyone else, but I often find I just don't have time to read something that long, anyway. 10k (about half an hour) is usually my upper limit of "light reading". I'm not against long stuff on principle and will sometimes commit to reading longer things (20-40k) if they are well-recommended, but the prospect of trying to catch up on a long WIP that is already into the hundreds of thousands of words is usually just too daunting. (I raise my eyebrows when a fic author has a single work that surpasses the entirety of the original canon.)