[QUESTION] What Do You Deem Short & Long, Story Length Wise?
Ok, so, I’m just gonna start off by saying that I am one of those rare peeps who loves, and I mean LOVES, stories with many chapters to them; the longer the better I say. Like, even when I’m out and about searching for stories to read by tags, for the most part I tend to click on the ‘chapter count’ option since I like to find stories that have the longest amount I can first, then go down from there, stopping at a certain amount. This is also why I want to be able to make all my stories as long as possibly because I think it would be nice to have long stories (but not in the sense that I would write a whole bunch of stuff in an annoyingly filler way to purposely make them long).
Now, the reason I say rare (I have no idea if this is true or not, I only say rare cause that's what it kinda feels like) but, to me it seems like quite a lot of peeps like to read stuff that isn’t too long or prefer stuff like oneshots more. Like, oneshots seem to be a big thing to me from what I witness. And really, I don’t mind oneshots or short stories (hell, I’ve even read my fair share here and there that I like) but they’re not for me as much as they are for some other people. Oneshots are fine and all, tho, they’re just like one chapter and that’s it, ya know? Sometimes when I stumble upon a story with a description that interests me, I go to check it out, but then I can kinda get a little sad once I find out that it’s just a oneshot, like, damn lol. And because of this I sometimes will just skip oneshots and stories with not that many chapters, which can kinda because I know that there are some really awesome stuff that I could be missing out on.
Anyway, I was thinking to myself of what I felt like, to me, was deemed short and long. I’d say, anything below 30 chapters, or maybe 20 at best, I would say that that is a short story to me. Then stuff that’s like 10 or less is really short. For long, I’d probably say 50+ is pretty long, then something that’s really long is 70-100+ chapters in length. Anything past that (150-200+) would be super long. But even still, like I said, I love long stories so I’d most likely totally read that still.
So, I wanted to ask all you peeps what you deem short and long depending on your preferences and stuff. Do you like stories that are shorter? Longer? Oneshots? Let me know!
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