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Writers tend to think about the lengths of things they are doing in the number of words. For a journalist, this is something that is often dictated to them by their editor based on the space that needs to be filled. “I need a hundred word piece” or “Put 500 words on paper about. . .” and within that scope the journalist knows whether they are being asked to do a feature length, filler, or somewhere in between.