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Swanson: I have written a book on Lincoln's assassination.
Editor: Great. How long is it?
S: 120 pages.
E: hmm.... Too short, won't look historical accurate enough. What can you add?
S: You want me to pad it? Well I could go into more detail. Tell how people got our of carriages and stuff. Add back redundant sentences I cut.
E: ...
S: Also biographies on everyone
E(raised eyebrows): Everyone?
S: Everyone
— Oct 27, 2019 11:30PM
Editor: Great. How long is it?
S: 120 pages.
E: hmm.... Too short, won't look historical accurate enough. What can you add?
S: You want me to pad it? Well I could go into more detail. Tell how people got our of carriages and stuff. Add back redundant sentences I cut.
E: ...
S: Also biographies on everyone
E(raised eyebrows): Everyone?
S: Everyone
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That Guy
is on page 258 of 469
While the book has improved somewhat, it is still hampered at times by Swanson's unfounded speculations, hindsight, and over the top flowery eulogies of redundant thought. Always sad when a writer takes a story that is intriguing and interesting on its own and tries to top it by making it some bombastic melodramatic masterpiece of pompous deep think literature; yet epically fails.
— Oct 29, 2019 04:10AM
