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Having people do three from a list of five seems good.
I may have had issues with the limit, but I doubt raising it would help much, at least in my case. I'd just write more and still have to cut stuff out. That's just how limits work, and it isn't a bad thing. 200 words is as good a cap as any.
Because of how short the stories have to be, I think the vaguer prompts were definitely easier/more fun.
Like, I'm not sure how I would have been able to cover the revenge story within the word limit, particularly because of the whole "spell at a certain time" thing. I liked the incantation and tavern prompts more because they suggested details (what with the names and such) instead of requiring them.
Don't get me wrong, though, the gun and Eustace prompts were great, I just personally couldn't come up with anything good for them.
More than anything though, it just needs more people to join, I think. The fact that they didn't isn't about the contest itself, so much as about bad luck and (possibly) a lack of active users in the writing section.
I may have had issues with the limit, but I doubt raising it would help much, at least in my case. I'd just write more and still have to cut stuff out. That's just how limits work, and it isn't a bad thing. 200 words is as good a cap as any.
Because of how short the stories have to be, I think the vaguer prompts were definitely easier/more fun.
Like, I'm not sure how I would have been able to cover the revenge story within the word limit, particularly because of the whole "spell at a certain time" thing. I liked the incantation and tavern prompts more because they suggested details (what with the names and such) instead of requiring them.
Don't get me wrong, though, the gun and Eustace prompts were great, I just personally couldn't come up with anything good for them.
More than anything though, it just needs more people to join, I think. The fact that they didn't isn't about the contest itself, so much as about bad luck and (possibly) a lack of active users in the writing section.
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