I don't have room to post a 25000_ word story, but I will give you a link to a Cheers one I wrote back in '97 when I still knew the show. http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1476436/1/ This is a good example of how to expand a story while putting the characters in a unique spot - it aalso is a good example of the alternate universe, as it covers a time when sam has a very good career and frazier owns the bar.

The keys to this are, don't write a little,, post, then forget about it. Writing soemthing this long takes lots of work, and it needs to be all ready, or almost so, before you start posting, or readers lose patience fast.