When you say “help” here, what you’re really asking is why editors don’t force the writers to truncate their stories to a length that would be more to your liking. And my response to that would be that the editors in question are likely just as happy with he length and the development of the storyline as the writers are–everybody works together, of course.

As we’ve talked about in the past, all stories are different–there is not some one-size-fits-all length that works for all things. And if you find that a particular story or plot is taking too long to resolve, you can always walk away from it. But forcing writers to do Reader’s Digest versions of the stories they’re trying to tell doesn’t seem to be a good way to get the best work out of them.