Hi all! Julie here, and today I want to talk about how we as writers choose the best length for the stories we tell. As readers, we've all come to the end of a story we loved and felt a real sadness that it was over and we were going to have to leave those characters and their world behind. I think this can happen with any length of story. I've felt it at the end of short stories (Raymond Carver's "Cathedral" comes to mind,) and I've felt it at the end of multi-book series (Harry Potter, for one.) No matter how short or long the story, I know these characters I've come to care so much about live on. Why would the author so cruelly cut short my time with them?