Who knows? But don’t worry about length, if it’s not what you feel. It has to fit in your disposition to writing. If you feel that brevity is better, that flash fiction is you tool for expressing yourself, go for it.

It’s not necessary writing a full-length novel to be a writer.

Four years ago, I made up a way to write a full-length non-fiction book: I kept a journal for three years of life in Brazil. I was living there with my wife and kids, we were in the inland, center-west of the country; 1000 kilometers from the sea shore.

Now I have ten handwritten journals in my hands and I started a 52-week writing challenge here on Medium, where I present an excerpt from the journal every Monday. In the end, I will have a full-length book.

But this is just a way of doing it. I tried others and it is fun; you only have to figure those out. I suggest you start with the question most authors ask themselves when they have to find a novel idea: what if…?

In my three cases I finished a novel, I asked myself the following:

What if I wrote a novel in seven days?

What if I kept a journal for four years?

What if I wrote my version of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”?

Those questions spawned products with big potential.

Keep writing and brainstorming, let yourself inspire you.

    Alessandro Tinchini

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    Author. Scholar in Dance-therapy. I published “Day-job writers”, a guide for writers busy with demanding day-jobs. NaNoWriMo 2019 winner.

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