Retainer Ad-Venture Contest (EU) - Discussion Thread

[Bizant]

So, Community Team, my entry is actually 500 words on the dot (post #162 in the entry thread), but I just pasted the whole thing into a word processor and it counted 502. It's added 2 words because I split paragraphs with "---" in two places. Obviously those aren't actual words, so the entry is still 500 words.

Is that going to be an issue? :S

[Chiramu]

So, Community Team, my entry is actually 500 words on the dot (post #162 in the entry thread), but I just pasted the whole thing into a word processor and it counted 502. It's added 2 words because I split paragraphs with "---" in two places. Obviously those aren't actual words, so the entry is still 500 words.

Is that going to be an issue? :S

I don't think that should be an issue. You don't read the paragraph breaker .

[Bizant]

I don't think that should be an issue. You don't read the paragraph breaker .

Well, you could try

But yeah, exactly. The paragraph breakers obviously aren't words. I'm just concerned they'll paste it into a word counting tool, see the number 502, and instantly disqualify it without realising those 2 extra "words" are just formatting to make it easier to read.