Good and concrete advice from the chief editor: "A good rule of thumb is that stories should either be shorter than 400 words or longer than 900. You either ha

Good and concrete advice from the chief editor: "A good rule of thumb is that stories should either be shorter than 400 words or longer than 900. You either have a simple news story or a single observation (in which case go short) or a yarn or a chance to explain something very complicated (in which case go long"