Here we go with another definition of what a novella is:
The Novella: A
novella is like the 13" inch single from your favorite band. It's a
remix of a good short story into a longer, freer format, where structure
and sentence open up and things happen faster or slower but at the same
time just right. My novella, I Can Make It to California Before It's
Time for Dinner, actually began as a short story by the same name. I
didn't think I could carry the voice through a whole novel, but the
short story bothered me enough, in its containment, to want to set it
free in some other way, see what happened next. And then it was just
right. The novella is the baby bear of literature for us Goldilocks
writers.
bio: Jen Michalski's first collection of fiction, Close
Encounters (2007), is available from So New, and her second book is
forthcoming from Dzanc (2013). She is the editor of the anthology City Sages: Baltimore
(CityLit Press, 2010) and the editor of jmww (http://jmww.150m.com).
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