• truepenny on whether short stories are necessary (Necessary for what?)
• raleva31 offers consolation and inspiration to frustrated writers
• the results of Tobias Buckell’s survey on how many novels people wrote before selling one (More than one, mostly.)
I don’t like to read short stories very much, so I don’t write them (I think I’ve written three, ever). I wish I did like them, because it would be nice to have a short way to practice writing from the perspectives of different types of characters, or in a different style, or setting or subgenre. On the other hand, I’ve done that with novel fragments.