Via Laura Gibbs. These are good reasons, and some of them are reasons that I write short. Others include:

– Quicker turnaround time on submissions than on novels to trad-pub

– Quick rights reversion

– Comparing pro-rate short story sales to the average novel advance, better rate per word (approximately twice as much).

Originally shared by Writers Write

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