Help with content ideas

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I am asking for your opinion. There is no right or wrong answer, only your answer.

I am writing a very lengthy article. On the surface the main content is sort of a story. However multiple times through the story I want to highlight or pull out certain truths or morals to the story. Rabbit trails if you will. This is where it gets complicated for my brain.

How do I present these “rabbit trails? Visually my hope is to make them easy to navigate and enticing to read? Of course content wins, that’s totally on me.

I thought about a single page website with accordions to expand if you choose to read them. I also thought about standard text links to new pages. What do you think? Other ideas?

I am posting this in multiple forums so if you see it repeated, no need to answer more than once.

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The editorial convention of pulled out quotes works well. There are so many ways of doing this, and a browse through long-form magazines will provide lots of inspiration. If you want to bring up the material in another window, the most obvious way to do it would be with a modal. Andrew’s Limelight and PopDrop are impressive, versatile and reliable tools, but there are also lots of interesting modal stacks out there — Elixir, 1LD and Weavium have products which do some whizzy animations when launched. My suggestion would be to combine both of these approaches — break the text up with elegant pulled out quotes, and incorporate a ‘show more’ button or link which opens a modal.

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