Short stories are not a stepping stone to novels

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Published on July 17, 2017 4:30:53 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5uR_UxfQOg

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Back in the day the sage industry advice was to write shorts to build cred before submitting novels to publishers. This hasn't been true for about a decade, due to the decline of the short fiction market. In this video, I go over a few other reasons why you should just write what you want to write.

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Michael Coorlim is author of science fiction and steampunk novels, producer of the Working Class Creatives and Synesthesia Theatre podcasts, and lead designer at RPG publisher Taoscordian Games.

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