hey everyone. I'm quite an experienced writer. I have just started writing a short story about 8000 words and i do plan on eventually evolving into a full fledged novel when i have the skill to do so. anyway, i was going to submit to a magazine which publishes short storys i dont think it will be accepted. but i think it would be good to see where im at. But if it did get accepted and was published in the magazine would i run into trouble down the track if i turned into a novel and tried to have it published? thanks!
many successful novelists turned their earlier published short stories into novels... there's no reason you can't do the same... but 8k is long for a short story... you'll have a much better chance of getting it into print if you keep to down to less than 5k, which is the optimum upper limit for most print venues...
I second mamma. If I'm not mistaken both Ender's Game and Flowers for Algernon started as published short stories and later became novels. You should have no problem with it.
Hey, Thanks for the advice guys! its going to be hard to strip it down to 5000 words. Maybe ill submit it to the sc-fi short story contest on here instead. ill work something out
