[aristus]

I submitted an article, two actually. Peter gave extensive feedback and went over it in person with me on his own time. He was looking at first for quite long (20k) pieces, which was beyond my ability and depth of knowledge. At the time I wondered if there were enough writers of that caliber available.

[mgkimsal]

I don't think there are. Most of the pieces I publish are in the 2000 word range - some are longer-form series that it takes several months for the authors to put together, so the 'final' series might be 10,000 words or so, but it's done over a long time. Writing and editing that much cohesively is simply too time consuming for most people to do quickly.