Writing Outside of the Inverted Pyramid Structure

Your standard, run-of-the-mill, journalistic article is usually written in the inverted pyramid style (as I've addressed before). This is usually for newspapers and the like and it makes it easier for editors and sub-editors to fit articles into specific spaces and cut unnecessary sentences. By having the least important information at the bottom, the editing team can simply cut that sentence to fit into the allotted space.

However, some articles are not written in the inverted pyramid style and this makes it much trickier for the editing team. Articles written in the inverted pyramid style have a tendency to just state facts then just sort of stop. Completely. Articles that aren't written in the inverted pyramid style are, more often than not, feature articles and that means that the editing team has to read the whole article to see what they are able to cut down. The great thing about feature articles is that they tend to be very descriptive and in-depth and have a clear beginning, middle and end. Unfortunately for the editors, this means that the ending is usually very closely linked to the beginning of the article and cutting it usually isn't an option.

I rather enjoy writing feature articles and for an example of a story that I have written outside of the inverted pyramid style, please refer to the Soundwave review that I wrote last month.