Mini stories all by one person http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/other-genres/threads/20168 Saphraira This is my first time doing this sort of thing and i was wondering if this is a possible thing for a novle and im not quite sure what i mean by possible becuse i already have four short stories down. Has it been done that there is a book of a collection of short stories in one book by only one author? the sort of books like that i have seen were by many authors. I suppose im asking if this has been done before and if its accepted. any comments would be nice thank you all! Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:17:41 -0400 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/other-genres/threads/20168?page=1#forum_thread_comment_388883 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/other-genres/threads/20168?page=1#forum_thread_comment_388883 truthfulxlies That's sort of what I'm doing, so I hope so! Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:04:33 -0400 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/other-genres/threads/20168?page=1#forum_thread_comment_390084 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/other-genres/threads/20168?page=1#forum_thread_comment_390084 itsonlymemories I'm doing the same thing. I have a main character and each story will be an event or adventure in her life. They'll basically be fictionalized accounts of things that have happened in my life, during the past two years or so. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:42:51 -0400 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/other-genres/threads/20168?page=1#forum_thread_comment_396562 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/other-genres/threads/20168?page=1#forum_thread_comment_396562 kbain10 Mini stories by one person. Yes. I'm writing amusing essays from life. So, guess this is my genre. Have no clue about the possibilities of publication... but I am having a blast. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:43:09 -0400 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/other-genres/threads/20168?page=1#forum_thread_comment_407010 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/other-genres/threads/20168?page=1#forum_thread_comment_407010 Finniemc I've been researching for my story and I found several little stories that could fit in the same "universe" but cannot be included in the main story (for several reasons). So my initial though was to put them on my website as "appetizers" or whatever. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:10:33 -0400 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/other-genres/threads/20168?page=1#forum_thread_comment_434181 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/other-genres/threads/20168?page=1#forum_thread_comment_434181 Finniemc I've been researching for my story and I found several little stories that could fit in the same "universe" but cannot be included in the main story (for several reasons). So my initial thought was to put them on my website as "appetizers" or whatever. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:11:07 -0400 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/other-genres/threads/20168?page=1#forum_thread_comment_434195 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/other-genres/threads/20168?page=1#forum_thread_comment_434195 melindabrasher It's certainly possible (and qualifies for nanowrimo), but I've heard that short story collections are quite hard to publish until you're somewhat famous. However, if you tie it tightly together, it may be marketable as a "novel in short stories." For example, like itsonlymemories above, if you have the same set of characters, and some or all of them grow over the course of the set of stories, it's tied together pretty snugly. More loosely, you could have sci fi or fantasy stories all set in the same universe, like Finniemc above. Similarly, you can invent a small town and people it with short stories that intersect here and there. Many posibilities, but unless it could pretty much pass as a novel, it'll be a hard sell to agents and publishers. If you don't care about agents and publishers, go for it with reckless abandon. :) Or go for it anyway, and sell it to a publisher after you've sold a couple other books. :) Fri, 04 Nov 2011 04:03:19 -0400 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/other-genres/threads/20168?page=1#forum_thread_comment_455298 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/other-genres/threads/20168?page=1#forum_thread_comment_455298 Chibi-Cat I love writing mini stories. I'm not doing it this year but I hope my novel next year will be based primarily off of stories that all involve one of my favorite characters. I love exploring his life. It's so fun, I think in some ways you can get connected with a character on a more personal level when you do a bunch of mini-stories with them. Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:05:42 -0500 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/other-genres/threads/20168?page=1#forum_thread_comment_675548 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/other-genres/threads/20168?page=1#forum_thread_comment_675548 Saphraira :D thank you all for your feed back. i dont plan to publish this ever so that wont be an issue Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:17:03 -0500 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/other-genres/threads/20168?page=1#forum_thread_comment_806887 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/other-genres/threads/20168?page=1#forum_thread_comment_806887 beanza3 So... It's like the House on Mango St? (A series of vingettes about one person + those she knows). It could definatly work! :D Hop to it! Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:23:17 -0500 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/other-genres/threads/20168?page=1#forum_thread_comment_946963 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/other-genres/threads/20168?page=1#forum_thread_comment_946963 aliaswriter I immediately thought of the Canterbury Tales. It's a collection of stories from one narrator. Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:50:47 -0500 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/other-genres/threads/20168?page=1#forum_thread_comment_952829 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/other-genres/threads/20168?page=1#forum_thread_comment_952829 keolah Er, there's a lot of collections of short stories by the same author. Frequently, they're printed sometime after the stories have already been published, separately, in magazines and whatnot. Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:25:21 -0500 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/other-genres/threads/20168?page=1#forum_thread_comment_953937 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/other-genres/threads/20168?page=1#forum_thread_comment_953937