Mark Rossiter

When does a short story become a novel? I’m not looking for an answer like “when it’s a novella” or one that involves numbers of pages or words. Rather, I’m interested in process: how an idea for a story, a story that could fill say five or ten thousand words (well within the classic definition of a short story), might be “stretched” into novel-length. Can we tell when this has happened? Can we point at a place in the text and say “there, that’s where it happened”?

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Writing fantasy isn’t the sole prerogative of fantasy writers. How about long-serving members of parliament? [since this was posted, Tony Abbott has become leader of the opposition. Wall builders around Australia should start ordering bricks and cement]

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