What I learned about writing novels by failing at short stories – and how to make a short story into a long one

This re-blog is from Roz — you’ll like it :-)

Nail Your Novel

Lee Martin wrote recently on his blog about how he hadn’t intended to write longform fiction. He started with short stories, and graduated to novels only when an editor suggested it.

I hadn’t thought about it before, but that was also my path. Though I was considerably less masterful at it than Lee, who had a respectable bank of published shorts by the time he began the big one.

I started small, and writerly friends urged me to thi...