[Foundation-l] Candidate statements

[Andrew Gray]

On 21/09/06, daniwo59 at aol.com <daniwo59 at aol.com> wrote:

>  I recently finished writing a book (due for released in 2007). I was
> commissioned to write 25,000 words. It is a small book, but it is a
> complete book nonetheless.

What's the book? Go on, you have to tell us...

>  Accordng to Gmaxwell, the largest candidate statement is approximately
> 20,000 words, i.e., a novella. We have 17 candidates this election. If each
> one wrote a statement of that length, we would have 340,000 words to read,
> i.e., statements totalling several times the length of "War and Peace" or a
> standard Dickens novel. We are talking "A la recherche du temps perdu."

Your list there seems a bit odd - the standard three-decker Victorian
novel, which are usually not hideously long by modern standards,
weighed in at ~170,000 words.

But I agree with the actual point! Keep it short and succinct, people
will read the things, people might even care.

-- 
- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk