Thanks for that description, it helps me appreciate the practice more. The success of that technique entirely depends on the talent of the writer, apparently,

Thanks for that description, it helps me appreciate the practice more. The success of that technique entirely depends on the talent of the writer, apparently, because I've come across a few too many "long form" articles after "longform" became an internet buzzword, and where the writing just seems to alternate between the topic and an unrelated topic in almost an algorithmic fashion, before they are weakly tied together.