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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Ewillett (2007)

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. ❋ Michael Allen (2004)

Most authors will only pull that kind of wordage when the deadline demon is after them. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And the additional wordage of these qualifications is, in fact, not even necessary. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

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. ❋ Ulysses (2010)

Wordcount * pay rate = wordage budget, obviously enough. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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! ❋ Peggy Noonan (2011)

The movie (or in the author's own wordage: The whole video and audio streaming) shows a Moroccan youth that is seeking all means to succeed. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Got instantly sucked into the story, but that's the kind of mega-cool wordage that she kicks out. ❋ P_n_elrod (2010)

We sat down with our budget (see parenthetical note above) for both wordage and publication costs and determined our final wordcount target. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Either way, I'm pretty content with the wordage even though my goal was 1,000 total for the weekend. ❋ Pabba (2010)

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. ❋ P_n_elrod (2009)