Longform is ready-aim-fire for me. I aim in the lede, first 300-400 words, and then launch the thing on a ballistic trajectory of a 4000-6000 words. Which means if I can't aim right in the opening, the whole thing is a failure, landing far from where I intended 😖
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Needless to say, read-fire-aim with in-flight course corrections would be much less stressful. Or at least waypoint-to-waypoint. But I haven't yet learned to break up my ideas that way 😞
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It's called an "essay" because you figure out what you were trying to say halfway through. Then you can use the next draft to aim the introduction from the beginning
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Correct, except that the tougher the shot, the more iterations you need before you find the right "aim"... it's sometimes taken me a dozen tries.
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Sometimes instead of "essayer" it's "essayer et essayer et essayer autre fois! sacrebleu!"
