NaNoWriMo 09 Post: Short story or novel?

Found a question on NaNoWriMo today. Here’s the question and my answer to it:

Short story or novel?

How do I know whether a particular story idea is better suited for a short story or a novel? Some of my stories change from one to the other, and some, I can’t decide which to write.

How do you all handle this?

I usually start out not knowing how long my story is going to be. I just have an idea and I start writing and stop when I get to the end. Sometimes it’ll end at 10 pages, other times it’ll go one for 200 or more pages, most of my stories seem to end between 30 and 75 pages, I’ve noticed. I just write and let the story lead me to where it wants to go. I never start out thinking “I’ll write this to be a 100 page book.” or anything like that, because than I’ll have to stretch a story after it ended or water down a story that should have kept going, and really that shouldn’t happen. A story should end when it’s ready to end not at some pre-appointed spot.

Well, that’s how I do it at least and it works for me. I don’t know about any one else.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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