Yeah. With TV, I can understand. You need 22 minutes. Advertisers need their time, it must fit in the slot, fine.
That same attitude for writing drives me crazy, though. Like...honestly, I'd pay the same for a novella as a novel (or maybe slightly less, whatever). And I'd prefer it to the awful filler that you can see some authors using.
I can see, though, why no one would want to risk having to publish multiple novels by an unknown author. (Which is kind of what publishing a 300K word fic would be, as you'd need at least 2 books to cover that many words). That said, well known authors can get away with it as they can sell series. Although even then, they need to keep their story arcs in a novel sized range...
Then again, from what I've been told, new authors are almost never published in anything other than the short story format. Which is kind of sad. *sigh* Makes me think that I ought to work on my 1.5-5K word fic...
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That same attitude for writing drives me crazy, though. Like...honestly, I'd pay the same for a novella as a novel (or maybe slightly less, whatever). And I'd prefer it to the awful filler that you can see some authors using.
I can see, though, why no one would want to risk having to publish multiple novels by an unknown author. (Which is kind of what publishing a 300K word fic would be, as you'd need at least 2 books to cover that many words). That said, well known authors can get away with it as they can sell series. Although even then, they need to keep their story arcs in a novel sized range...
Then again, from what I've been told, new authors are almost never published in anything other than the short story format. Which is kind of sad. *sigh* Makes me think that I ought to work on my 1.5-5K word fic...