Garren Jacobsen
Auror
So, how do you know when a story is a novel or not. I have written exactly one short story after deciding to become a writer. And, really, it was just a chapter in a book. It won a local contest. But, it wasn't really a short story.
Now I have an idea, inspired by recent pop culture. Half the world's population poofs away. A lawyer loses his wife and child in the poofing. He also happens to be the attorney that was hired to deal with drafting of a will and the subsequent legal proceedings to get the will valid. Central conflict deals with a McGuffin that was bequeathed by one of his clients, without his knowledge, that, oops might just undo literally all of the poofing. Hijinks (legal and shooty-shooty-stabby kind ) ensue.
So, novel, something shorter than a novel? And, most importantly, why?
Now I have an idea, inspired by recent pop culture. Half the world's population poofs away. A lawyer loses his wife and child in the poofing. He also happens to be the attorney that was hired to deal with drafting of a will and the subsequent legal proceedings to get the will valid. Central conflict deals with a McGuffin that was bequeathed by one of his clients, without his knowledge, that, oops might just undo literally all of the poofing. Hijinks (legal and shooty-shooty-stabby kind ) ensue.
So, novel, something shorter than a novel? And, most importantly, why?