I adore reading long narrative magazine pieces (when they're good, not self-indulgently long) but I'm terrible at that kind of writing. Should I try to learn it, or should I stick with my strengths and stay focused on ideas and analysis?
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lol yes, I admit that I am basic but more broadly I mean stories that focus on a character and that character's experience / journey as a lens for a larger issue, rather than going straight to the object level
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ha nono not making fun (admittedly I hate most of these things) but
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the secret is if you want to do things like this but don't have the ear yet to weave it all together all you have to do is write two pieces
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write the narrative of the character, write the analysis of the situation, chop both up into sections, alternate between pieces' sections with fancy section breaks
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this is a good idea, I will try to implement it
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if there's one thing I learned from english program it's aside from legitimate Great Works, anything of any apparent depth or quality can be constructed according to a process
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and once you work out the process you can more or less paint by numbers a brand new thing arranged in a similar form and evoking similar emotions
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exactly although the scene-setting lede is not a necessary ingredient IMO, just a frequent default
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yea it's more that it's become a trope that signals "this is the big smart heartfelt one this month, strap in for it"
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in the same way the up-top lede doesn't just communicate the information in the sentence itself, but signals the length and style of the whole article
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"ah, inverted pyramid, ok"
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