Well, realistically, I know how my attention span and focus work. I already struggle to finish a project that's under 20 pages. Longer form writing is something that may well elude me for my entire life. I could approach something one chapter at a time, as many of the writers here on cohost do. But I am always thinking of things later on in a story that make me want to go back and change something from earlier, or add a detail I hadn't thought of, etc.
So as much as I would love to write a novel, I just don't think I have it in me. I lose motivation on long projects very easily, which is why short fiction has become my comfort zone. I did talk about an idea I had a while back, which may be suited to a longer, chapter-based approach. It involved a shapeshifting alien, and a lot of speculative evolution type stuff. It's somewhere back in the Mentat's Muse tag if you care to know about it (if I do write it, it will not be soon).






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