wordage

• “IMHO the current wordage is testing the waters of international opinion to see if it can get a cut from the likely large amount of petroleum sitting in that part of the continental shelf.”

  Cheeseburger Gothic » Anyone been following the build up to next falklands war?

• “Whether I move today's scene to the beginning or not, I suspect I won't make quite as big a jump in wordage tomorrow because I'm going to rewrite part of what I wrote today to make it more exciting.”

  The first sentence I wrote today...

• “But all of these things influence the reader’s experience, usually unfavourably; and it is obviously easier to give a text ‘air’, so to speak, if the wordage is short than if it is long.”

  December 2004

• “Most authors will only pull that kind of wordage when the deadline demon is after them.”

  In Gordath Wood: Writer Patrice Sarath » The week of writing — a wrapup

• “If there is a downside to writing fast and hard it’s that the wordage is a lot less polished and so editing takes longer.”

  In Gordath Wood: Writer Patrice Sarath » Writing lessons — full tilt boogie

• “Maybe mentioning that N'gali's people are inspired by a mix African slaves and Central American natives, while El Diablo's people are drawn from the Spanish conquest of South/Central America might clear things up, but I think it's unnecessary wordage in a note that's supposed to concentrate on plot.”

  Query: New and Improved! Now With Notes!

• “He's going to overwhelm you with wordage, with dates and supposed data, he's going to bore you into submission, and at the end you're going to throw up your hands and shout, I know Iraq and Afghanistan were not Don Rumsfeld's fault!”

  The Wall Street Journal: The One That Got Away

• “Got instantly sucked into the story, but that's the kind of mega-cool wordage that she kicks out.”

  Da Winnah and a ** Newer** Drawing!

• “Either way, I'm pretty content with the wordage even though my goal was 1,000 total for the weekend.”

  Things to do, things not yet done

• “Doubtless the physical sensations I experienced will be described in full in one of my books and you will enjoy the wordage, then my hero will gird up and go on to the next crisis.”

  Things that keep me from writing.

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