Hmm. It's funny, I too sometimes get (or hear on other people's works) comments like, "This feels like it would be better as a novel/short story/play," etc -- whatever form the work is not! It's become somewhat of a frustrating trope; it's the least helpful thing someone can say when critiquing my work.
I'm beginning to wonder if it's an expert way of saying, "There's something about this that doesn't work for me, but I can't pin down what."
That said, I don't think it would take so long as that to gain expertise as a writer of prose. Many of the basics are the same, like creating dramatic tension. Translating things like the blocking of a scene to physical descriptions I would anticipate as being one of the more challenging points.
That ALSO said, it's not significantly easier to sell prose. And, yanno, people actually WATCH movies; you're not pitching to the ambivalent audience that is "novel readers in my small genre." If you don't want to write prose, I don't think there's any reason to do it just to gain visibility.
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Date: 2015-12-16 05:47 pm (UTC)I'm beginning to wonder if it's an expert way of saying, "There's something about this that doesn't work for me, but I can't pin down what."
That said, I don't think it would take so long as that to gain expertise as a writer of prose. Many of the basics are the same, like creating dramatic tension. Translating things like the blocking of a scene to physical descriptions I would anticipate as being one of the more challenging points.
That ALSO said, it's not significantly easier to sell prose. And, yanno, people actually WATCH movies; you're not pitching to the ambivalent audience that is "novel readers in my small genre." If you don't want to write prose, I don't think there's any reason to do it just to gain visibility.