At the blog, A Motley Vision, William Morris has a post called "Why Mormons should embrace the novella". A Motley Vision is a Mormon, or LDS, blog, but if you are not LDS, you can still benefit from his commentary. In fact, the whole blog has lots of interesting articles about the arts. As far as the novella post goes, William Morris describes the strong points of the form and why he believes it's time to bring it back into use.
As for more information about the novella form itself, you can find good descriptions here and here.
There doesn't seem to be much of a market for novellas now, but the possibility of publication exists, and the market may swing back in the direction of shorter, more focused fiction. Think about your writing style and what you like to write about and see if maybe a novella would be a good choice for you.
4 comments:
There you go Mary, time to get started.
Pop, you're an encouraging soul! :) I am writing--I'm just stumbling around with it. Reading the post on A Motley Vision has started me thinking in that direction.
You could kind of combine your Novella with the BSaABF theme for the week.
Pop, you're always thinking, aren't you?! Yes, a novella with that theme could make for an interesting story.
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