The basic difference between short stories and novels is simply their length

Evidence

Many editors and writers insist that the short story and the novel are vastly different creatures. It is my belief, however, that, like the distinction between story and plot, the distinction between the two forms is very simple, and that many and profound possibilities of difference proceed from that simple source: a short story is short, and a novel is long. — Janet Burroway; Elizabeth Stuckey-French; Ned Stuckey-French, Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition, 477

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to the creative-writing pedagogy in Bayles’s ‘On Habit’ and to how form constraints drive craft decisions. — connects to: A short story can hold a novel’s content if uncluttered — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 503

Related

• A short story can hold a novel’s content if uncluttered (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• A short story can hold a novel’s content if uncluttered #qualifies (0.60) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 503