As I finish my latest story, I started wondering what people in general prefer. I know it might be a very hard thing to answer, but do you prefer a short story that goes straight into the gore and the violence, or you prefer something longer, with a plot and characters that develop along the story line.

I myself prefer the second option, both as a reader and as a writer. I like to know a character, to feel something for them before they start suffering. I think it makes it more enjoyable that just saying that "I saw a girl, I killed her like this, the end...".

But I think I have had better success with my shorter stories than with the longer one that I am now writing.

What do you guys think?