Supposedly, the article's author gained this opinion through teaching a course and finding her students were unable to write a fantasy short story.
Yeah, I saw that, and yanno? There's a reason they're called STUDENTS.
I remember a time when standalone novels were 45,000 words short. I think SF trilogies became a Thing in my lifetime; and I remember Steve telling me that Roger Zelazny called him on the phone with the Incredible News that Roger had sold 6 books at one blow -- the Amber series. Very short novels, granted, but Nine Princes in Amber did not suffer from any lack in worldbuilding of a Very Complex world.
*shakes stick* Kids today, who think we always had cellphones and that a novel has no "depth" if it's not 700+ pages long.
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Date: 2015-05-27 01:27 pm (UTC)Yeah, I saw that, and yanno? There's a reason they're called STUDENTS.
I remember a time when standalone novels were 45,000 words short. I think SF trilogies became a Thing in my lifetime; and I remember Steve telling me that Roger Zelazny called him on the phone with the Incredible News that Roger had sold 6 books at one blow -- the Amber series. Very short novels, granted, but Nine Princes in Amber did not suffer from any lack in worldbuilding of a Very Complex world.
*shakes stick* Kids today, who think we always had cellphones and that a novel has no "depth" if it's not 700+ pages long.