Do you guys read Light Novels (even in English?)

[jayjayparker525]

I've had a concept of a story for quite some time, but knowing that my ability to create stories through art is lacking viciously,
(unlike me illustration skills) I decided to create a light novel instead! However though, I'm not so sure how light novels work entirely. I've always wanted to write a story and incorporate some type of art, whether it be just the cover, part of the book, or the entirety of the book! How are light novels written? And if I wrote one, would you read it?

[rodrigomush]

Kino no tabi has a illustration for chapter, and Welcome To NHK i think has some ew illustration in the book. Those are th eones i'v read.

[Starfestival]

Light novels in essence are practically just novellas. They have drawings put in sparsely, at least the ones I've read do.

[Aloredd]

The only one's I've enjoyed that I've tried reading are the Vampire Hunter D light novels. There are a couple others with manga/anime based off of them, but I couldn't get into them (mainly because of translation errors). These ones, though, whoever translated them did a fantastic job and even though their first language was Japanese, they almost feel like they were written in English (the fluidity of the story suffers if it's been translated)

And I think that light novels are just short stories, longer than 100 pages but shorter than 250 or something like that. The mechanics are the same as a regular novel, it's just been condensed. As for reading it: It would depend on the content. I'd give it a shot, but the story telling (and grammar, fluidity, spelling, word choice, etc) all matter as well (to me....I have a hard time reading something that's written poorly ((NOT saying you write poorly, just throwing it out there that I have a hard time reading works by people who don't know the differences between to, too, two and there, their, they're)))