Critique on Critiques

Posted on April 22, 2003 in Writing

I think it reflects a certain insecurity, an amateurishness, to raise a critique against a story to the effect that “it is too long to be a short story and too short to be a novel”. I write my stories as long as they need to be, cutting nothing that adds to the wonder of the piece, adding nothing to fill it out for the sake of chopping down more trees and using up more bandwidth.