Another story...I'm bad, I know. But this story is not bad, for it is going so well. I have not been stuck on it at all, and I am 3/4 of the way done. Here is the summary, and that's all I'm going to say for the moment until it is done...although I will say that it needs a title, which is always my shortcoming.
Nottingham, England, 1173
Fourteen-year-old Adele is lonely. Her widowed mother died two years ago, and she lives with an old carpenter, Master Grey, and his loathsome apprentice, Basil. When she meets the at-first-unsociable Gawain, Adele has found a friend. And what’s more, a refuge. When Basil kicks Adele out, she has a place to run to - Sherwood Forest. For Gawain is part of Robin Hood’s band of outlaws, who all welcome Adele. But then Gawain notices a strange similarity between Adele and one of the men in the band, and Adele learns a unexpected secret about her mother…and her life will never be the same again.
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Monday, February 13, 2012
Short Story or Novella?
I've been wondering if I should start calling my stories novellas instead. Sure, I have written some proper short stories, such as Skating on the Standart, the Anne Boleyn one, and several others which I haven't posted but might soon. But "stories" such as Cecily Trilby Birche are not really short stories. It'll probably be over 30 pages when it's complete!
Novella: short novel: a fictional prose work that is longer than a short story but shorter than a novel. *
Short story: short work of prose fiction: a work of prose fiction that is shorter than a novel.*
So... short story, or novella? Technically I don't call any of my writings short stories, just stories, but that makes it sound short. It will take getting used to, just like when one's been pronouncing something a certain way for a long time only to find out that it's the wrong way to say it, but I do love the term novella. It sounds so French, even though the roots of the word are in Italian and Latin.
*Encarta ® World English Dictionary © & (P) 1998-2005 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Novella: short novel: a fictional prose work that is longer than a short story but shorter than a novel. *
Short story: short work of prose fiction: a work of prose fiction that is shorter than a novel.*
So... short story, or novella? Technically I don't call any of my writings short stories, just stories, but that makes it sound short. It will take getting used to, just like when one's been pronouncing something a certain way for a long time only to find out that it's the wrong way to say it, but I do love the term novella. It sounds so French, even though the roots of the word are in Italian and Latin.
*Encarta ® World English Dictionary © & (P) 1998-2005 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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