[Fauxreal]

Fair enough! Good solution. *nod nod*

[Quiet Man Cometh]

Faux is a white lioness of sorts?

[Fauxreal]

I thought I was more a mousey ~ but lioness is good as well! <3

[Quiet Man Cometh]

Mouse works too. ;). The tuft on the tail is a little off though. Gerbil, maybe?

[Avox]

Oooh, so entering this! Gotta dig up my old poetry book. XD

[Quiet Man Cometh]

Huzzah! More entrants! I do hope you find something. :).

And a genearal note, we are still short on prose. It's hardly a contest without at least a little competition.

If you don't want to enter, then feel free to chat. It's another chance for ribbons after all. ;)

[Avox]

I'll polish up the narrative essay I wrote. Try and get it under 500 words. >.> It was 700 something, I think. Lol. Five hundred isn't very many. XP

[Quiet Man Cometh]

No, it isn't, but being able to keep to word counts is a good skill. In school I've had teachers that were brutal both ways. One insisted on a minimum work count where more was better, and another had stated flatly that anything beyond a certain number of pages would not be read, any excess pages would be thrown in the trash.

[Avox]

I know, a friend of mine is in college and just went through both sides as well. XD One would give you a zero if you were even one word over the count, the other just set a minimum. It's hard for me because I never want my stories to end unless everyone dies. Lol. And I just checked. It's 900 something words. I'll just write something else. >.>

[Quiet Man Cometh]

That works too. :)

[Lucid:]

One of my teachers set an "Anything over 5 pages will not be read" rule for an essay. I wrote 4 and 2/3 pages and she knocked off points because it wasn't over 5 pages like the rest of the class. >.<

[Avox]

What...? How does that make sense? XD

[Lucid:]

It doesn't. I argued with her over it for a week and begged her to grade my paper based on content, because I would argue that mine was one of the best in the class. But she wouldn't do it.

[Avox]

I would be pissed. XD

[Quiet Man Cometh]

Ouch. Yeah, it was my poli-sci teacher that said that he's trash anything over six pages. I can within one line of it, and only after lowering the font size from 12 to 11. I've had to do that on more than one occasion, adn have yet to find a teacher who called me on it. Another trick I used to use was lowering the spacing from double to one and a half spacing. It usually gives you an extra few lines at the bottom.

I did have a paper where I went shooting over the page count, but I didn't get in trouble because it was due to a very large appendix.

[Avox]

I've submitted my 100 word prose! :D Now I just have to type up my 500 word prose. >.> Then find my poems.