Writing a STORY in anything less than chapter length segments wouldn't work very well - there has to be enough content and context for the reader to get into th

Writing a STORY in anything less than chapter length segments wouldn't work very well - there has to be enough content and context for the reader to get into the story. And for that matter, the average length of published fiction has been growing for decades, many, maybe most novels now are as long as the extremes, like Dune, from the sixties, and short stories have become increasingly rare from the early 1970s on. Multi-book novels (trilogies, and longer) have often become normal, especially in science fiction - see most of the works of John Ringo and of David Weber, for examples.