Signs Your Short Story Wants to Be a Novel

via Fiction Writing About.com Signs Your Short Story Wants to Be a Novel.

1. Is your novel idea truly novel? (self explanatory)
2. The short story simply is too long : Have you exceeded ten thousand words and it still feels incomplete?
3. Too many characters are needed to tell the story : Can you not tell the story from a single POV?
4. The theme, or themes, have not been fully developed.
5. The story encompasses too long a time frame.
6. One of your readers has pointed out that this could be a novel.
7. You don’t want to stop working on it.