Plug day!

So in between my grief group and a doctor's appointment, I haven't gotten a whole lot of time to write today.  After dinner (which my dear husband is cooking for me as we speak) I plan on getting down to business on A Window to the Gift.

Just a short post today with updates and plugs for upcoming events.

• As of posting this, I have 3880 words in my manuscript.  That's a record for the most I've ever written in one day.  I doubt I can keep that pace up, but I'm still pretty stoked about it.  Feel free to buddy me if you're taking part in NaNo.

• The Small Packages blogfest posting day is just two weeks away!  Put your thinking caps on for this month's theme: 
• In honor of Thanksgiving, and the beginning of a long line of colonists screwing over Native Americans, post about a time that you took advantage of someone. Or if you don't want to be that revealing about your darker side, write about a time that someone took advantage of you.

• The husband has a great contest going on his blog.  Show off your Inappropriate sense of humor and maybe win a free T-shirt!  Check out his ever growing Cafe Press shop, too!

• Make sure to check back tomorrow for the latest installment of Taking Liberty, my 3WW inspired serial story.

•  Prepare yourself for support-less support at Blogging Blobs, a new cooperative blog I'm a part of.

• Check out my album review of  KJ Denheart's Album No 9 at Frequency Magazine.

Wannabe Writer #22

Check out the origin of the meme here.

Where I am in the writing process:
Still unpublished in the fiction zone.  I'm up to 15 articles on my Associated Content account, but I've lost steam on that.  Non-fiction isn't where I want to be working, so it's hard to stay motivated.  I have an essay about losing my mom up on Existential.com. I think I'd like to write another article for the website, and I'm batting around ideas in my head for that.

My current problem:
Working up the guts to get started on a novel.  Years ago I wrote a story based on the Lilith myth that I'm seriously thinking of turning into a novel. I'd have to change up quite a bit, but I think it has some promise and could be turned into a series.  If you're interested here's part one and part two on my Writing.com account.

This week's question:
Now that I've settled on expanding my short story, how do I go about doing it?  I feel that my story is a bit rushed, so I could definitely expand on the flash backs, character development, etc., but I'm not sure it's enough to get it to full novel length.  Right now it's at about 8,000 words. What would you do to expand the story?  Do you find sub-plots to be a good use of space?