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Daily archive for August 26, 2026

Short to long: Fix-up novels

On August 26, 2026   /   Writing   /   2 Comments
Tags: how-to, short story, Short vs long

The “fix-up” novel has a long and honorable history in genre fiction. The term refers to the practice of turning short stories into a novel, and the “fixing” is what has to be added, subtracted, or altered in order to make the stories work as a novel.

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