[lamchopz]

Well, yea, Blaahs, I know your original intention. I just added the flexible word count as a suggestion. lol

Your second proposal seems quite good, and actually, is the best so far. Hazu, wake up! Anyway, I doubt that I'll read a story that spans 2 posts. It is in the writer's interest to ensure a reasonable length so that it won't turn off the readers. Since we will have a few entries, if each one is 2000 words long and there are, say, five of them, I'd rather go read my textbooks. =/

EDIT: I do read long stories but not for a contest which imposes a time limit, just to clarify. =]