Apart from its length, what else makes a short story different from a novel?

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wanell · Answer

short stories are structured differently.. novels have time to explore the full three-act structure but in a short story you often only have space to write a segment of the three-act structure. 

Also short stories are about one character. Novels have more room to explore the lives of several characters.

breanna1999 · Answer

Short stories tend to focus mainly on a single character while a novel will describe the actions of several.

animalover02 · Answer

Well a novel is different from a short story because...a novel is a whole book , which is a long story and the other is just a short story. hope i helped!