Popular opinion says you can’t make money out of writing
short fiction yet your entire output seems to revolve around this form.
Why? And do you intend to move into novels at a later stage?Hoping to make meaningful money from writing fiction is like hoping to win the lottery. It might happen, but don’t count on it. Mostly, I want this to be fun. I want to explore where my imagination takes me. And I can’t predict where that will be. I very much like the idea of “mosaics” — books composed of linked stories to form a larger story. It’s an underexplored form, mostly because it lacks an officially recognized name. But there are great books written that way that would not have been better served as novels or if their stories had simply been included in catch-all collection. Think of THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES or CITY OF SAINTS AND MADMEN or THE ATROCITY EXHIBITION or ORSINIAN TALES or THE WORLD INSIDE…
Read this and more insights from Claude Lalumière.
Learn more about Claude's books, Objects of Worship and The Door to Lost Pages.
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