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I really don't have a beef with long form writing. I've read and am reading many books, and i've read many articles longer than this one and taken things away f
by Mithaldu 11y ago
I really don't have a beef with long form writing. I've read and am reading many books, and i've read many articles longer than this one and taken things away from them.
However i do have a beef with authors who have little empathy and do not respect the reader's time. And that is the case if after 1500 words, the author decides to pull a And Now for Something Completely Different, without even having hinted at what the bulk of the article is going to be about.
It's not hard to start out with "I'm going to tell a story about how ..."
Edit: The part referred to by the title starts with "I need to tell you about the Cirque of the Unclimbables.", about 40% in.
- bjwbell 11y agoI skipped the last half. It's very possible to make climbing articles gripping, this had too much filler.
- tantalor 11y agoI couldn't get passed the first paragraph, which made it clear the article offered very little substance.
- rwallace 11y agoActually the article had a great deal of substance, but it should be obvious that you're going to miss it if you stop after one paragraph.
- jcoffland 11y agoI thought it was written quite well. Not everything needs to cater to the impatient.
- Mithaldu 11y ago> the impatient You must be talking about yourself. You didn't even bother to grok what my complaint is about.