“Words, words,
words.”
— Hamlet (2.2)
List #15: (c) novella, (d) superfluous
I wrote a long novella, for
I kind of didn’t know
What a novella really is.
My editor said, “No!
“A book like this should be, well, short,
To be of use to us.
So all these words? These sentences
Are just superfluous!”
So I revised, revised, revised—
And cut it to the bone.
And when I finished, there it stood:
One sentence, all alone!
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