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Originally Posted by dorintf
The one in particular of mine was 75 pages, so I think you're spot on about story length and diminishing views.
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I do word count, rather than pages, largely because I use an A5 setting that mimics mass market size. My longest single story is around 48,000 words, which for comparison is about the old fantasy novels back in the day. You know the thin ones, like The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
I swear these things get crickets. Something I toss off in 2 hours for about 2,000 words that's just light smut? Yeah I'll get, at least for me, decent response.
As a writer it's frustrating to feel this way about longer pieces. People say they want more, but then never read it. I've tried doing chapters, sometimes that does better, but after a while it tails off anyway. So I don't know. It's just a thing. We're allowed to feel frustrated, but it's really not going to be something I try to dwell on too much. I write the stories I feel I have to tell. If people like them, great.