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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If I understand correctly, you don’t have an outline beforehand. What do you do to maintain a flowing narrative for long form without an outline?
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