A Conversation for 1'The New Yorker' - 1925-1951: Ross's Little Magazine
Edited Guide Writing Workshop: A13455371 - The New Yorker
Leo Started conversation Jul 31, 2006
Entry: The New Yorker - A13455371
Author: Leo - young and cynical - so what? - U519437
I have a specific question about this one. I'm only about halfway done. I have to finish Shawn's tenure and then mention the changes that followed during the editors that followed.
I also want to add a description of the magazine's layout and content and mention some of the authors and their idosyncrises.
If I keep going straight, will it be too long? Should I split it in half? And if so, where?
A13455371 - The New Yorker
Gnomon - time to move on Posted Jul 31, 2006
It's got 2,800 words at the moment. Entries of twice this size are not unknown, but it is normally recommended that they kept shorter. The Eds have said you should aim for about 1,000 words for an Entry.
I've written guides to cities which were longer than 5,000 words, but it wasn't intended that anybody would read the whole thing from start to finish, but that they would look up bits of it.
If this is intended as a single long read, I would say it is too long.
A13455371 - The New Yorker
Leo Posted Jul 31, 2006
I think I'll split it somewhere between Ross and Shawn and fit all the other sections in either one. Thanks.
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