What is your opinion on light novels and novellas?

>>8748003

Honestly, it a format of writing that the bulk of writers should employ. I am to understand that, from a publishing standpoint, the difference in cost between printing a novel and a novella are basically non-existent however, publishers feel that people won't pay novel prices for novellas so they don't print them because they don't get as much profit from them.

In terms of writing though, they are superior.

Take someone like Stephen King for example. The guy has talent. He is descriptive, and a good word smith (fucks up endings almost universally though) but it is pretty obvious that he pads a shit load of his works to keep the word and page count. It is nice that he can so intricately describe people laying on the grass and looking at the sun or how water flows down a street in a small town for multiple paragraphs, however, none of this adds to a story and is just a very lengthy aside that actually slows down the story incredibly.

A Novella? It allows for characters to be established, the plot to not be rushed, and enough detail to have plenty of great mental pictures and such. In short,novellas offer a complete and well written story without the down-time and stupid side stories that go fucking nowhere that is prevalent in a lot of novels. They are fast reads, not because of the few pages and lesser word count, but because the flow of a well constructed story causes the reader to burn through the book without being fatigued.

I am happy it is starting to gain more traction with e-readers by allowing digital publishing and such and I will even give props to nip translations through companies like Yen Press to advance the medium and help get more people into reading books these days.

>>8748003
nigga we only read big dick books, ulysses, infinite jesjt, gravitys ranbow zettels traum the fucking list goes on

>>8748030
Are you pretending to be a redditor?

>>8748003
Prose is usually shit so they are usually shit since the prettiness of the prose is the only thing that matters

>>8748091

Good and descriptive writing is indeed important, however, inconsequential shit and sub-plots being added in that are inferior just to add length to a novel is a cancer.

To be fair it is a problem I have with a lot of classic literature and it is a sign of bad habits picked up by people who were a product of their times.

Flow is important.