I have a minor woe

Heffalump

I sent my 1400 word article to the editor who had requested it, explaining that I knew it was short of 2000 words but it pretty much covered everything I knew on the topic, and I was open to suggestions.  He just sent me a curt email telling me that it's too short (hello, I told him that already) and that I need to add 600 words before he can send it out for peer review.

Peer review?  Seriously?  It's the intro section to a buyer's guide, it's not exactly PNAS.  I get that it's short of the target, but he used the word "unacceptable" and now I feel bad.  It's not like I volunteered.  They asked me to write it and now I regret agreeing to do it.  I figured I could scrape together 2000 words.  I guess I'd better go think of 600 more.

Maybe I'll add a concluding section on kittens.  Who doesn't like kittens?

zsazsa-stl

Kittens are an excellent topic.  No one will read until the end as well.  I used to pad my high school English papers with random jibba jabba about my friends, my boyfriend, what I was going to buy with birthday money, etc. and only got caught once.  Every other time the teacher just read the first few paragraphs, made sure it was as long as assigned and gave you an A if those two requirements were met.

notamrs

Exactly, Zsa.  I used to work for a commercial real estate company that sold apartment complexes.  One of the brokers said he used to put a sentence in the multi-page marketing booklet that said "If you are reading this sentence, call Bill at 555-123-4567 for a free lunch."  No one ever called.