Short Workshop Length Discussion

This is an old subject of discussion, but I don't think it has ever been addressed ina single topic.

The short format workshops were originally meant to be a stopgap measure between the full-length workshops, but they have eveolved into a thing of their own with equal importance as their bigger brothers.

Now the big question: do you think that the 1000 words limit is a problem?

In the past some users brought this subject forward, suggesting to increase the word limit to various length. Personally i think that squeezing a significant story within those 1000 words is part of the challenge, but re-reading some of the old workshops, I can see that many stories would have benefited from a little extra room.

So what do you think. Should we change the rules for the next short workshop? Should we not?

sg2ww wrote: 1000 words is WAY too short. These aren't stories they are scenes - one joke ponies, set-ups for stories - not stories. Almost teasers. I think 2,000 would be much better or 2k-3k or maybe no set length.

There were some nice teasers though

No set length would be pointless, since we already have the normal workshops for that.

can i suggest that this topic be used to form a basis for dicussion at the town hall meeting on sunday, this could be one of many topics that we can discuss.

fats

fats wrote: can i suggest that this topic be used to form a basis for dicussion at the town hall meeting on sunday, this could be one of many topics that we can discuss.

fats

That was the general idea.

lojack wrote: Personally I looked over my not quite finished story today that I had been working on, and its around 1500 at about 70% complete. So it may end up around 2000 when finished, and it was/is/will be my first written story. Maybe have 1000 as a floor?

I would rather not have a floor here, since it might force some authors to artificially lengthen their stories, whcih is usually pretty bad (the first version of Fly Me To Honeymoon was 950 words).