Writing Process and Publication Differences Between Short Fiction and Long Fiction

Author and educator José Pablo Iriarte explains the differences between long and short fiction and the advantages of each. While he writes in both formats, Iriarte has discovered that he truly enjoys the ratio of invention to work when he writes short fiction. Like long fiction, short fiction requires an author to create a world, characters, and situations. However, short fiction doesn’t require an author to weed through 60,000 words and fully develop each of these pieces. While it may not be...