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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jonny Nexus" data-source="post: 2991397" data-attributes="member: 14664">I'm curious.I was always taught that good writing involves using the fewest words possible. If I could describe something in 100 words, but there's another way I could describe it in 50 words that describes it just as well, then I should pick the 50 word option.So we writers spend our childhood trying to make our "stories" as long as possible, and our adulthood trying to make them as short as possible.And yet you firstly appear to be marketting your book on the basis of how long it is, and secondly wrote an opening section to this post:...which could have been much more efficiently written as:How can I put this..? Assuming that you genuinely weren't attempting to market your product in your post* but were instead simply asking a question, well I'm starting to wonder about how good the quality of the writing might be in your product.Put simply: is it 540 pages of waffle that could have been more efficiently written in, say, 300 pages?*I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt here, partly because I'm making a point based on what you are claiming, and partly because if I don't you might accuse me of making a personal attack by calling you a liar. (Although to be fair, it's only a personal attack if you genuinely aren't lying - if you are, then it's merely an observation).</blockquote>