Japhy
Banned
It comes down to the level of skill of the writer. I can't tell you how many pieces of garbage I wrote at Othertimelines.com both literal date by date timelines and stories on the board that were well beyond the skill that I as a 14 year old actually had. I'd really say its whatever helps hone your writing best. At some point one should jump to narrative scenes and novel like formats if one wants to keep going, but before that there's no shame in pseudo-academia, which I gladly go back to semi-regularly just to work on it. And if you're new at either pseudo-academia or narrative, I think its a great thing that the site now has had a flowering of short timelines. One day I'll get to my big-damned-project but there's going to be a number of Vigenettes, TLIADs and other shorter works before I get to it.