Unpopular take: I don’t think microfiction illuminates atomic structure of long stories. They’re fun but more closely related to jokes. The essence of long story is compounding accumulation across the atoms.
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?
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