word-length

“Supreme professional that he was, London knew the word-count specifications of the magazines he wrote for, those who paid "by the word," and those who offered flat fees for works that met their word-length specifications.”

“I turn out each morning a thousand words of fiction.”

“The common word-length of a magazine article runs from 2,500 to 5,000 words; short fiction, given much more latitude than nonfiction, from 2,500 to 7,500 words.”

“I turn out each morning a thousand words of fiction.”

“And within a thousand or so of contracted-for word-length.”

*fall over go thud*

“But I'm on the whole more in sympathy with Sean Carman's: surely the Julavits essay was "widely misunderstood" I wish The Believer would reintroduce a word-length limit!”

Maud's guests

“There were neither language standards nor word-length standards, and so far nothing that would facilitate easy communication between hosts.”

Simon & Schuster: Where Wizards Stay Up Late

“Conjugation of Aleut verbs, word-length, and prepositional usage tended to show closer similarity of structure to Russian than any other Alaskan native language.”

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“(I split the link to fit within the AlterNet word-length requirement.)”

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