How solid is the 10k words per submission guideline? My latest ended up clocking in at 11,300. ( possibly a tad more by Lush's counter, which alway seems to be a bit higher ) After looking at it for a while, there's no point to break it into parts that I'm satisfied with. They all cause a serious interruption to the flow, which will be even worse with a day or more lag between the parts posting.
Previously, with stories that have given me this sort of problem, I just scrapped the idea of posting them here. I thought I'd feel this one out, since it's closer to the upper limit.
I submitted a story with 11,390 words and it was accepted (Appalachian Mists). Maybe I got a kind mod, but I think there is some flexibility, or there was, as of 18 months ago.
I thought that ten thousand words, give or take a few hundred, was a hard and fast rule. As usual, my thinking has been proved erroneous. I will try to learn not to think in the future, but to make inquires before returning long stories. Sorry.
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10,000 words is our story limit. Like Sprite said, please contact a verifier if your story is a over that limit and you'd like for it to be one intact story. We'll have to decide whether to allow it or not. In nearly all cases we will ask you to split it into two parts. If it's just slightly over the 10,000 limit we can verify at our individual discretion (within a few hundred words).
If the verifying mod asks you to split a story, please just comply.
I can tell you if I catch your story in the queue and it's upward toward 11,000 words and especially more, I'll be asking you to split it into 2 parts. At 11,300 words I would ask for it to be split into 2 parts.
As far as I know, the 10,000 word limit is well known here. If you didn't know it and read this, now you do know it.
Let me add, if a verifier has asked you to do something on your story submission and you are not happy or if you don't want to comply, The Forum is NOT the place to take that up.
Thanks,
Buz
Just to be clear, I'm not complaining. I've been self-policing, and not even putting things in the queue that I couldn't break down into parts below the limit - few though they are.
Considering what's come up, I'm going to skip posting this one, rather than potentially becoming a "Yeah, but..." example for someone else who might want to complain.
If you want to erase this thread for fear it might encourage people to push the wordcount boundary, do so with my blessing. I know you don't need it, but you have it anyway.
