short stores v novels

~Anovoca Nov 6, 2012

In my experience so far (which is nothing compared to most of you) I am finding it far more difficult to formulate ideas, format, and begin to write a short story than a 50,000 word novel. I am curious if this experience has been the same for most of you and your thoughts on why that is. Shouldn't the ability to write novels translate in the ability to write short stories and vise versa? For those of you that primarily write short stories and consider themselves naturals at that art form, how much time do you put in to time lines, and characterizations before sitting down to write?

Secondly, do any of you find one genre of story harder to write than others? i.e. children's stories vs. horror

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~BenevolentHellion Nov 6, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

I am writing a novel right now and have a whole universe set out for it, but I only managed to work out all the kinks of my fictional reality my writing a selection of non-cannon short stories.

When ever I do something creative I layer it so a short store begins as a pre-draft then gets rewritten into a first draft and so on, with my novel I am doing very much the same process except I am writing and splicing many already completed short stories together. Its all the means to a greater end to me.