Short stories and flash fiction avoid this problem by having genre conventions that allow for focusing only on a specific scene. Ploughshares in its recent Winter edition has a fiction piece that's three paragraphs long, which I thought was an appropriate length for the content.
I think it's somewhat common for writers to start with writing shorter pieces. GRRM comes to mind.
Short stories and flash fiction avoid this problem by having genre conventions that allow for focusing only on a specific scene. Ploughshares in its recent Winter edition has a fiction piece that's three paragraphs long, which I thought was an appropriate length for the content.
I think it's somewhat common for writers to start with writing shorter pieces. GRRM comes to mind.