User blog comment:MrDupin/Rant about Reddit Creepypasta Threads/@comment-7064562-20161211060804/@comment-26475800-20161214031115

As someone who has written full novels (not published, but written), short stories, and micro stories, I have to say the hardest to write are the micros. You have to build a world and people to populate it in so few words, there's less time to tell the real story. Not saying it cannot be done, I feel I've done rather well with them, but it's hard as hell. The best I've ever read is Mother's Call.

The next hardest to write would be novels, because you have to have enough to write that much. Shorts are nice and easy compared to the other two, but it doesn't mean they will be any good.

For the record, I consider anything under 1,000 words a micro. 2,000 - 10,000 a short. 15-50k a novella. And 60k up a novel. There's wiggle room in there and that doesn't include a novelette, but it gets the point across.