How Long Should a Story Be?
A formula (sort of) for finding the perfect length.
Whether you’re scratching out breaking news, crafting a magazine feature or assembling a how-to piece for the web, there is no ideal length for a story. Period. End of story.
Actually, that’s not quite true. There is a perfect length: Every story should be exactly as long as it needs to be. That can, as you might imagine, be difficult to determine. So he…
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