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For me, Elizabeth Bear quite pinpoints the essence of 'short', there is no room to extras. Maybe it's because we read short stories and novels with different intensity, one variable being the time we expect to spend with the story. Thus novel can sprawl here and there but sprawling in short story under 7kWords jumps one's eye, not to talk too large variety of viewpoints and figures.
Though, I havent been able to finish my lines for few attempts to novel, they always seem to broke in smaller parts, the line is broken, the bridges collapsed and result is anthology with sprawling sparrow squadron for a text; I'm used to project softwares at work but authoring consistency does not hold, however the draft lines are created.
Perhaps just impatience.
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