Is it a bad idea to turn a short story into a full-length novel?
I've written a couple of short stories. I'm really satisfied with some of them, and I would like to turn them into full-length novels. They were meant to be short stories from the beginning, but I feel I can still add more stuff to them (e.g. some part needed more details, and I didn't develop the characters enough).
Is it a bad idea to turn a short story into a full-length novel?
(Is there any author who has been doing this?)
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Asimov did it with Nightfall as well as Standback's examples.
As I've said elsewhere, it's only a "bad idea" if you're padding your story with effluvia. If you think you have more to say, more things can happen to the characters, the characters can be more developed, the setting could be richer, then by all means go for it.
I've actually incorporated a short story of mine that I wrote last year into a novel I started a month ago. Using the snowflake method, I combined the short story and the outline I wrote for the novel and worked with 2 and kept expanding from there. I did that because in the short story, I had already developed some history and the personality for the main character, and I wanted to save myself some time. Also, I turned the short story into a prolouge for the entire novel (of course, i condensed it quite a bit).
I write a lot of short stories, because I keep coming up with so many story ideas and characters and I don't want to wait and write later. I purposely write the short stories so that I can use them later in novels.
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