Re: Article length

**K* M* <k*@iol.ie>**

On 13 Jul 2010, at 21:28, Debra Lee Baldwin wrote:

> Andrew writes that despite being asked to do otherwise, he's going to
> produce 1200 to 1500 words a week...and it's "the editor's problem" if she
> and the publisher "want to  edit it down to 750 words..."
> 

If anyone is tempted to use Andrew's method whatever you do don't put anything you think is important in the first or last paragraph. In a situation like this it isn't an editor, who cares about the words, who does the chopping but a copy editor in a hurry and lopping the beginning and end is the easiest place for them to start. Learned that one very early. Nowadays even though I always try and stick to the brief I realise that a late advert may invade my space so I'm still very careful about what information goes where in case there is a copy editor with an axe about

kathryn

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