WORDINESS • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Wordiness

... suggestions to remedy this condition of affairs. "A few magazine editors could do a great deal to raise the level of the American short story. They could at once eradicate two of the things that cause a part of the evil—the wordiness and the commercial standardization of the story. By declining short stories over three thousand words long, and by refusing to pay more than a hundred dollars for any short story, they could create a new standard and raise both the prestige of the ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1917 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various