rat king 🐀 @MikeIsaac
me, fwiw: in most NYT pieces i come in as close to 1200 (or whatever the mandated word count is) as possible because i know how much it sucks to give someone 4000 words to slice and dice for my book i was asked to write 70 to 80,000 words i turned in 140,000 had to cut 30,000 — PolitiTweet.org
