For Readers - Length of story
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2024 2:58 am
I posted this in the wrong forum.
Simple question, really. What do you prefer? Short? Long? One chapter? Few chapters? Many chapters? A novel?
I personally published a one shot, got tons of feedback, and published the next one shot based on that feedback and got absolutely no acknowledgment whatsoever. "Give the people what they want, and they will come" need not apply here.
I see the same happen to others... they write a story to some lofty standard and get tons of feedback, but the next story gets nothing. It kills an author to get such spotty responses because then they don't know where to improve or what things made the story interesting and/or engaging.
I'm making this the first of what will likely be a series of polls that I hope will help not only me but also other authors to figure out what keeps the readers reading.
Simple question, really. What do you prefer? Short? Long? One chapter? Few chapters? Many chapters? A novel?
I personally published a one shot, got tons of feedback, and published the next one shot based on that feedback and got absolutely no acknowledgment whatsoever. "Give the people what they want, and they will come" need not apply here.
I see the same happen to others... they write a story to some lofty standard and get tons of feedback, but the next story gets nothing. It kills an author to get such spotty responses because then they don't know where to improve or what things made the story interesting and/or engaging.
I'm making this the first of what will likely be a series of polls that I hope will help not only me but also other authors to figure out what keeps the readers reading.