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Poll: What would you say is the atomic unit of storytelling, the smallest meaningful slice of plot?
  • Event
    23.6%
  • Beat
    37.6%
  • Dialogue exchange
    24.4%
  • Other
    14.4%
729 votesFinal results
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Realized from the answers that unconsciously I am thinking of serialized atoms. There’s no reason the atoms have to be continuous segments of text. Though I can’t think of a candidate counterexample. Maybe a thread?
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After following accounts like Ctrlcreep for a really long time I definitely agree! Reminds me of something analogous you said in the longform blog course - develop the skill to evaluate the potential wordlength of an idea when you have one. Some ideas are just tweet-length
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