Rules for the AWR Cup of 2010

[ASGetty ((Zovo))]

I bet you can find 500 unnecessary adverbs.

[NotAlice]

Well technically i only need 388 but... yeh... Reffy thinks its got to much nothingness in the middle that slows it down. I'll need to change some of it a bit though.

Do titles count in the word count or just the actual story?

[ASGetty ((Zovo))]

Only if your title is like a paragraph long.

[Jenny (Reffy)]

Heh. I didn't say "nothingness." I said it "lagged a little," mostly because of the excessive descriptions
I'm not mean enough to say "nothingness."

[Kaez]

The general idea is that 500 is a pretty hard minimum, but 5,000 is a soft maximum. You can top it, as long as its not by too much... but keep in mind the obvious consequences of a story that long. When I'm reading it, am I just tired of it by the time I get there? Does it start to get boring? Is it just too overly detailed?

If not, go for it. But seems this has already been figured, mainly.