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crich70 has a good idea. Writing novels for most people is not as easy as writing short stories. It's how I started out writing books. Learning to expand and expound your story, build background, etc, is a lot harder and plenty of work. So what you may want to do is use this as a practice to help you increase your story size. One good method I found to do that is to set yourself a word count goal. Mine was, and still is to some extent, 70k words. Now while the word count isn't important in the overall story, knowing you have a goal to work towards actually forces you to work harder to expand and improve your story. IE, it gives you something solid and concrete to shoot for. Then, later on in your writing, it helps to tell you if you're being too long winded in a story or not. lol.
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