Poll: What would you say is the atomic unit of storytelling, the smallest meaningful slice of plot?
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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.
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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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