Duleigh
Just an old dog
- Joined
- Dec 12, 2004
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By all means GO! To have such a butt rash for such trivial reasons guarantees that your departure will improve the overall quality of the Literotica contents. I refuse to bastardize my eyeballs by subjecting them to a story written by someone who can't find creativity lying beyond 659 words. I truly doubt you have anything near twenty stories planned let alone anything long enough and entertaining enough to keep a reader interested beyond the opening exposition and with your crying over the minimum story length I really doubt you can reach 50,000 words, let alone 5,000 words.I’m extremely disappointed by all of this.
To have a story rejected on such trivial grounds. To be faced with the rigid inflexibility of the moderators is galling.
I refuse to bastardize a story by padding it out to meet some arbitrary word count. And I find it really distasteful the thought of conniving my way around the limits as some have suggested.
I have almost twenty more stories I was planning to put up. The largest being on the borderline of novella/novel. But now I've lost interest. At my age I don’t need the aggravation of this.
Adieu.
Throughout history writers have delt with limitations creatively, many of those limitations were self imposed just to show that they had the mental horse power to outstrip those limits. Ever hear of ee cummings? He wrote entire stories and poems without capitol letters. Ever hear of a formal verse in poetry? A strict meter pattern and rhyme are required - like a limerick. Ever hear of a lipogram? The most famous of which is the novel Gasdsby by Ernest Vincent Wright. There are 50,000 words in Gadsby and not a one of them containing the letter E.
Wright purposely wrote a 50,000 word novel without using E, the most popular letter in the English language and you whine like a schoolboy over a 750 word limit? Go. If that's all you can do is threaten to leave (like anyone here gives a shit) then take your crap and go.