[quote=@Kaithas]
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I totally understand the need to not have filler. My personal difficulty with the word limit is that I have to contrive, plot, and show a death scene all while involving the reader emotionally in an extremely short story with very little buildup. Other than that I agree.
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I guess that's fair, I suppose I could bump the limit up a bit. But the point of the [i]challenge[/i] is to really do a great job with as few words as possible. So I guess I can change it to 2,000 or maybe a little higher. But I don't know, opinions anyone?