Stories to Novels

First of all, read Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels for Young Adults. There are loads, so you won't have to look for very long. Second of all, you're going to have to look for a writer's critique group that shares your interests. I know of one online YA writer's group here: http://yalitchat.ning.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network It's not exclusively Sci-Fi/Fantasy, but it does focus on books for Young Adults and there are a lot of great people there who might be willing to help you out. It's not likely that you'll get a professor at any school willing to teach you how to write a novel. That's something you're probably going to have to find out on your own.

I find that if you are the person who asks "but what happened next" you are on your way to be a novel writer. If you want to be a fantasy writer, you have to have a very good imagination on the weird side. Mundane will not do it. I find that if you have vivid dreams when you are asleep, that these can translate into fantasy works. Now from what I know about short stories, they are about single incidents, often in a small town or taking a short time, but when you go and write a novel, you are expanding your limit. So think of your short story not as a short story, but a chapter and figure what happened for examplw when the dragon disappeared and instead of saying, that is the end, think of him appearing in the middle of a pink ocean, and then go from there.

The way to think of writing from a short story to a novel is not to just feel that a short story has to be a certain number of pages and that a novel has to be a certain number of pages. That won't work. The forms between the two are so different that it is not simply about expanding page count or word count from a short story to a novel. What is possible in terms of switching a short story to a novel form is thinking about the scope of the story. The scope of the story has to do with themes and characters and to move from a short story to a novel or even the not currently seen as much novella means that the author has to add more people to the story, think about having different people interact and create a theme that can be worthy of a novel. This will work no matter what type of novel or short story a particular author writes, for characters and conflict make up the essence of most stories and hence, regardless of length, if there are sufficient numbers of conflicts and people moving the story along, then eventually the short story will move into a novel.

You went to college to become a writer? The only way to become a writer is to write. I've gone to college but never for writing and I'm working on my second novel right now. The amount of writers who have novels out right now, I can guarantee you very few if any of them went to college to learn it. All you're learning is how to follow the rules and color inside the lines. I was told I couldn't write a book that consisted of short stories that combined in the end to become a complete story-that's against the rules. I did it anyway and quite nicely according to my fans. As another said, start reading fantasy. My own work is dark fantasy/horror. Think what you want your novel to be about and start writing but please stay away from sparkly vampires, orcs and dragons.

i like to read stories about detectives and also stories about adventures and ghosts, i feel they are me interesting than the love stories