The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I are growing mini tomatoes and mini bell peppers, along with many other vegetables, this year.
We’re not growing them because they are easier to grow than regular-sized tomatoes and bell peppers. They are as difficult to grow. And we’re not growing them because the plants grow faster. They take the roughly same number of days to get to maturity.
We’re growing them because more fruit can grow on those plants and that increases the likelihood the Mafia Squirrels and the insects will miss some of that fruit and we will get to eat mini tomatoes and mini bell peppers also.
(smiles)
Short stories are very similar to mini tomatoes or mini bell peppers. They aren’t easier to write than novels. And they often take roughly the same length of time to write well. But they can possibly serve more purposes (as promotional material, as a source of royalties, as a flat price sale to a magazine, etc).
And I find them fun to write!
