Uh. I meant to say that how good my fiction is is inversely proportional to its length. SHORTER TENDS TO BE BETTER. Today at work was long. Honest answer about the short thing? I can go on and on and sometimes I do, but I can't do it well. Plot is not my strong suit and never has been. My style doesn't lend itself to too much length, so when I get long winded I just end up with a lot of purple prose and exposition, so then it becomes all about economy of words and tight writing. (Sometimes I am good at this - sometimes not so much). For people with the ability to, you know, PLOT, I assume it's an entirely different thing because then you have to go on longer in order to say what you need to say. I usually have a fairly simple point about characterization or something that I'm trying to make and dragging that out means spelling things out for the readers in a way that is unnecessary and actually hurts the fic. You do plot well, which naturally lends itself to more length. That would be my guess anyway. I always envy people who can write plot. I have one now that's trying to grow a plot. It has dialog. I don't know what to do.

Sure. I like Jo a lot, but I know she isn't always the most popular character in that fandom.

I will not poke my eyes out with paperclips because fandom manages to keep me distracted enough. YAY fandom. *g*