How I Turned My Novella into a Novel
Add words, but add depth, too
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4 min readJul 23, 2022
In the fall of 2020, I took an obscure idea that had been knocking around in my head for awhile and turned it into a novella called The Rotting Room during National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). The manuscript clocked in at about 53,000 words, which is par for the course as far as novellas go. My agent and I had agreed to submit the novella to a…
