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⌈ Secret Post #5509 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

But if you don't get all wordy, then how can you pad the word count to meet publisher's requirement? Write more plot and character? Like that ever works.

[(Anonymous)]

I wonder if authors who drown the reader in verbiage did politics and communication degrees. We were always told to never use one word when ten would would do, and never use ten when you could use a hundred.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like this is what I should have studied. Verbosity was never appreciated in my lab reports.

[(Anonymous)]

tbh this really depends on the style of writing and the pov of the narration. If it's written from the pov of someone who really IS that wordy then I give it a pass.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

I don’t. I read this one book where the MC was studying to be a doctor. Whenever she described someone, she would do things like say the formal names of the muscles they were moving. It was not a fun time.

[sabotabby]

I don't think I've ever wanted to edit a book so badly in my life.

It made me develop a theory that publishers are only accepting manuscripts based on the first chapter (which tends to be the most polished in workshops), and not bothering to edit the rest of the book at all.

[(Anonymous)]

I suspect this to be true at least in some cases, to save money. Some of the errors I've seen in published works recently....

[(Anonymous)]

This one's been on my list for a while. Wordiness aside, is the story good?

[(Anonymous)]

OP has never read Wilkie Collins.

[(Anonymous)]

Damn, I have that syndrome.

[(Anonymous)]

I must admit that I'm guilty of this, but I'm not a professional writer.