I don’t think it’s worth writing anything longer than 500 words or shorter than 500,000 words anymore.
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People are no longer attuned to the mid-range, mass market paperback (around 50,000 words) or the feature article (2,500 words). They want Heraclitus (i.e. tweets) or total immersion “War and Peace” (i.e. Netflix-like experience.).
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This point is adapted from Taleb, who says that the greatest successes in literature are very long or very short rather than middling. But I think that the Internet has changed our minds on top of this, so we can’t handle the mid-range written word anymore.
6:31 AM - 6 Jul 2018
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