Quote Originally Posted by Mjollnir View Post
Wow 500 words is SHORT. I'm really struggling editing mine down from around 1,000.

This is a great competition, and I understand that you can't very well read a ton of long short stories, but if (hopefully when!) you run a competition of this kind again, could you please consider upping your word allowance to 1,000?
Would YOU like to read a hundred entries of a 1000 words?

If you're having a hard time getting the word count down, throw your story away and plan it again from scratch. Plan the important parts and revolve around that, do we NEED to read about your retainers interaction with your character? Does your retainer NEED to talk about your character?
Questions that I've brought up from the very long entries(the ones that also disqualified themselves ), the story is about the retainers' adventure. Do we need to read about the parts we see in game? What is the most interesting part of the story? Is the most interesting part what you have written down?