From Snippets to Series: How to Turn a Short Story Into a Full-Length Novel Some stories don’t arrive as grand epics. They start as flashes — a scene that won’t leave you alone, a character who walks into your imagination uninvited, a single moment that feels bigger than it looks. Maybe it’s a short story, a micro-fiction piece, or even just a paragraph that tugged at you long after you wrote it. That tug matters. Sometimes, a “small” story isn’t small at all — it’s simply th