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Writing Minimally


W_L

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An observation that I need to answer on my story's word length:

 

Yes, I know, my chapters are really short for Language of Love.

 

It's actually intentional. In the modern world, we don't write 10,000-20,000 to describe a day on our blogs or texts, at least for the average person. We shorten and compress it down to 1,000-2,000 words. I could easily make this story longer by adding more descriptions, color, and other facets of my culture or his culture. However, that's not the essence of modern communications. We will leave things out in our life.

 

Writing using modern communication in mind is something I stumbled upon when reflecting on life; I used to write extremely long technical stories and I feel that maybe I lose people along the way due to how much information needs to be conveyed and how many moving parts there were. While it's true, there are many readers that like that style, i.e. it's the Game of Thrones-esque, i am not criticizing other writers or authors, who put in a large amount of time and effort to write longer stories and chapters, I do the same too. What I am just saying is that in personal style, I thought shorter chapters would be more correct for this story.

 

For the Grammar guys on GA, I know there were errors in prior chapter or weird word choices, I will fix them when the story is done. You guys have not come after me yet, thanks, but I know my failings as well.

 

This will probably be either a Novella or Novelletta in its length. We are nearly at the halfway mark for completion.

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Maybe that's why I struggle with the shorter chapters. Too quickly over, just like all modern stuff. A quick dip, in/out and we're done. Hope the love story is not too much like that too! I find it unsatisfying and unfulfilling. This is just my personal choice, of course. Prefer to get my teeth into something and experience it heart and soul. But thanks for the explanation.

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