Quote Originally Posted by Chiramu View Post
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?
Had already cut mine down to 500, but it took a lot of the storytelling and emotion out of it which was a shame. I wanted to write about my retainer's interaction with my character, so aside from the required mention of what was brought back and how it was gotten hold of, I though it would be interesting to reflect on the current state of the game from my perspective. We have plenty of roof-stealers and minion-hunters in the thread so far, but in-game my eight retainers are past that phase and only head out to get the specific materials I require for the crafts that day.

On reflection, I stand by the 1,000 word request for future shirt story competitions. 500 words only takes about a minute and a half to read. Would I like to read a hundred entries of 1,000 words? Sure! Not all at once, but there's no reason to do so. Spending an hour to read twenty a day for a week seems fine, especially if it was part of my job to do so!