Brief Confessions of a Photojournalist #1

Word counts! For magazines! How do you do a great narrative justice in ONLY 1200 words? I remember having this problem at school. I once wrote a seven page high school essay and my long-suffering English teacher (the incomparable Mrs Cranke) complained, saying it needed to be two pages. So I took the book back, grabbed a pen and a ruler, and drew a line through the middle five pages. Then I gave it back to her and said, "There, two pages." And she said, "Don't ever do that again."