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.
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