Writing Strategies 101: Follow the 500-Word Rule

July 29, 2010

Back when I was the editor for Software Engineering at Prentice Hall PTR, I came across an anecdote about noted historian and author Shelby Foote that stuck with me for the rest of my careeer. Apparently, in writing his exhaustive, three-volume discourse on the Civil War, he approached each day with only one goal in mind:

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