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This is a seriously braindead take. There's short books that feel interminable and long books that fly by. It's amazing that a professional writer would espou

This is a seriously braindead take. There's short books that feel interminable and long books that fly by. It's amazing that a professional writer would espouse the opinion in this article publicly.

nottorp 4y ago
Nah, there is an actual tendency to make books longer for no good reason.
- bombcar 4y ago
  Lack of editors has been a common problem for decades, especially visible as authors get famous.
- yamtaddle 4y ago
  You usual target a wordcount for a market, as I understand it. You can't sell (to a publisher, I mean) a YA book that's 600 pages in a mass market paperback. You can't sell a 220 page hardcover to a publisher that wants big fat doorstop fantasy novels.
  - nottorp 4y ago
    That only means publishers are accomplices.
    - yamtaddle 4y ago
      They do that because they think it's what will sell. They might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure they have better insight into the market than I do.
BeetleB 4y ago
> There's short books that feel interminable and long books that fly by. Yeah: It was a delight to read. The Brothers Karamazov was a pain.