G'morning.

Yesterday, the UE authors wrote winter scenes to share, and today, they're in the hotseat with the question: Could you take the Winter Scene you wrote for yesterday’s writing prompt and turn it into a short story, novella or full-length novel?

Dayne Gearner

Muncy Chapman

Genela’s motives for the camping trip are not altogether altruistic. Although she is genuinely interested in the welfare of local teenage girls, she is not unaware of charming Charles Bradley, the handsome young widower whose daughter is one of her most taxing youthful charges.

Meg Allison

I could probably turn it into at least a short story. I’ve given myself a good place to start with the setting, including season, and a heroine. I would just need to flesh her out a bit and figure out exactly who it is she’s fallen in love with.

JoAnn Carter

Yes, I think I could turn it into a short story, but that’s not the easiest way for me to go about writing. I’m not the strict outlining-type writer, but I do like some direction as to where the story’s headed before I sit down at the computer.

So, if I wanted to continue working to incorporate that scene in a story, I’d like to know more about the plot and the characters that live within the story.

Laura Hamby

Oh, absolutely I could turn that scene into a short story, novella, or longer, depending upon what I needed it for.  Without a doubt.

Susan Atwood

Absolutely! A short story or novella about a woman who goes to help her grandmother on their family farm and finds that the boy who used to tease her unmercifully is now all grown up.

Cindy Green

Yes, of course. Short story length or novella would be easy to reach. Alicia just might have an interesting adventure at that hockey game and meet someone new who may or may not change her life forever.

Josh Lockwood

Absolutely. A disgruntled Confederate soldier ready to desert a lost cause? What’s more, this could very easily be turned into a romance, with the soldier trying to get home to the love he left behind. I can see all kinds of conflict in here, both internal and external … his own loyalty and bravery are in question, he’d be pursued as a result of his desertion, and there’s no guarantee the girl he left behind would have waited for him. Oh, yeah, I could write this.

Judy Jarvie

I’d make it a short story intro. Cherry and her friend’s brother Harry have a bet that she can’t find a better Christmas tree bigger than the bushy seven footer one he brought last year. Cherry has to win. Because secretly she has a private score to settle with Harry. She’s never got over the year he snubbed her offer to go under the mistletoe.

Margaret Callaghan

I think this story could pan out with the following point of conflict:

Coming face to face with the new man in her sister’s life is not so much as shock as a cataclysmic moment for Lorna. Jared King is back in town and soon it’s painfully clear that Millie is besotted with Lorna’s ex-fiancé. After everything that has happened, how can Lorna possibly stand by and watch as her sister makes the biggest mistake of her life?

Robin Bayne

Yes, I have plans to continue Caroline’s story as a novella or short story. The finding of the bay leaf on her pillow is an actual custom from Colonial times, indicating a date is secured for February 14th and I think this might make a good Valentine’s Day story.

Loree Lough

I’ve already written a full-length novel with a similar theme. "The Wedding Wish" features a character whose terminal diagnosis forces her to bring her closest friends together in marriage in order that her fatherless daughter will have a safe home and loving parents.

Denise Patrick

I suppose I could if I wanted to. Since I have her moving faster than she’s comfortable at the end of it, I could always have the hero catch her if she falls.

Gina Hartoog