A Novel Art Form

You guys may have noticed that my book is a novella, up above. Well, it is at 123 pgs, and for the most part I think it's becoming more of a commercial art form. A book is always nice because it gets compared to a movie every time while a novella gets compared to a T.V. show episode. Yet some novellas have gone on to become movies. It depends on how much you can fit into the plot within your set number of pages. My story is quite packed with events and action and could easily become a movie instead of a T.V. show. Either way they are attractive in their own slim, portable style. Personally, since I wrote a novella I can say it is quite a cool looking book in hardcover. Some might dismiss it as teen fiction if it's only 123 pages but you really can't do that. On the bookshelf if you have a collection of novellas then it does indeed look very nice and I'm not always motivated to read a 400 page hardcover book that looks like a dictionary. In high school I would read short story collections and get through books much easier that way. That's how I found out about "The Mist" by Stephen King long before the movie ever came out. It's not so bad but you have to be able to pack in a certain amount of events to make it seem more than a short story. They're called short novels, which is a good way to put it. They are more attractive than a big, bulky book for sure but a 300 page book can allow more room for the same events, usually meaning more description. I still like novellas though since I'm not always thinking about a story with more than one plot or sub plots or more characters. You don't always need that. Without novellas we wouldn't even have H.P. Lovecraft. They used to be more admired back in the day for their "style". Perhaps the onset of movie culture has changed things but they are still out there and they look very cool. Pictured here is a collection of horror novellas.



Guest Commentator GOODBYE KITTY says: "Horror stories never scare my corpse anymore!"