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Jul 22, 2006 18:27

You, my friend, are totally drunk, trashed, smashed. You stumble through the door, slamming it behind you. “Shit!” you exclaim, angrily and long, somehow managing to slur even the simplest of words ( Read more... )

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gamahucheur July 23 2006, 00:38:58 UTC
Can you count?

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calyne July 23 2006, 01:45:23 UTC
Other people did that... I thought it was permissable.

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gamahucheur July 23 2006, 03:54:31 UTC
No, they haven't. People have put various things behind cuts, but they've not pretended that words in a story that are put behind a cut somehow don't count against the limit. a_varga_girl put an old version of her story behind a cut after she revised it. the_mock_turtle put the conclusion of a story behind a cut, and the remainder brings the story to exactly 69 words. pea_girl hid stories which, when revealed, are 69 words.

(Nor is observed behavior that flies in the face of a natural reading of the statement of rules in the About section on the userinfo page a reliable guide to the rules.)

What you have before the cut is indeed sixty-nine words long, but it doesn't fit the requirement for a plot.

Even the most logorrhϕc of writers could come under the 69 word limit if it just meant putting the seventieth-and-on words behind a cut.

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calyne July 23 2006, 04:48:32 UTC
I knew that, but I thought people were just too cool.

Oh well. Oops?

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