The Rules Of Reading Excuses

[little wilson]

Good, you picked up on that. I used "guideline" in exactly that sense--to pay homage to Pirates of the Caribbean.

Instead of stringing up your toes, we just start all laughing maniacally. In unison. Sort of like a full choir of evil laughs. Your brain explodes under that kind of pressure.

Sweet (I say this long and drawn out, like Saweeeeet...or something to that effect). I will gladly join the chorus of evil laughers. It shall be fun.

...Seriously, though. I was just thinking. What would it be like to come across a group of people who spontaneously start to laugh evilly in unison?...I honestly have no idea how I would react. Would I run? Or just stand there in shock, thinking "what the heck?"

[Flo_the_G]

So do we set up a conference call in Skype for these purposes or how's that supposed to work? I guess we could mail each other recordings of our laughter in case we couldn't make the call...

[Silk]

What, everytime someone misses a deadline, we set up a Skype conference and laugh at them? Evilly and in unison?

[Dangerbutton]

Sounds cool to me

[little wilson]

Actually, we were thinking if anyone goes drastically over the 3500 word guideline...I say drastically over is "4000" words. Or when they break any major "guideline," but I guess missing a deadline works, too. This gives us more chances to practice our unison-evil-laugh.....You know the phrase "the more, the merrier"? In our case, it's "the more, the eviller"....or something like that.

Reading over that last part, it sounds lame....I'm tempted to delete it, but I'll keep it up in case someone gets a kick out of it....

[Silk]

Haha. I dunno, I'd be okay with 4000 words, though we probably shouldn't slam everybody with too much more than that...

[little wilson]

Oh, I'd be okay with 4000 words too, but that's what I get for having no life, and not caring about slacking off from school....I just want to use my evil laugh...and see how well we can unify our laughs. It could be a lot fun.

[Chaos]

Actually, "drastically" over is 6000

[little wilson]

Well, yeah, but if we waited for someone to do 6000, we'd NEVER get to laugh evilly in unison. That would be sad. See--- That's a tear.... I'm just looking out for the group's interest.  I'm nice like that....

[AvalonDreamer]

Out of common courtesy, lets try and keep it to around 3500-4000. I wont refuse to review a peice if it's larger, but I won't be happy about it, and frankly, unhappy readers are not what we want.

[GreenMonsta]

What if I wanted to submit one that was 6000 just to see the outcome of the skype powered evil laughing chorus?

[little wilson]

I'd say be my guest. I'm curious what the outcome will be as well....

[AvalonDreamer]

Once again... Don't piss off your readers and peers. This community is a thing of courtesy, and if we don't maintain the courtesy, keep up that civility, the core of the community will rot.

[little wilson]

I take it Avalon won't be in the chorus, then, eh? Darn. We could use all the evil laughers we can get (not saying he's evil, but pretty much everyone has SOME version of an evil laugh, and we'll need lots of variety in this chorus...).

[Silk]

I wouldn't even be that averse to a 6000 word submission (considering there's no deadline to deliver critiques) as long as it doesn't happen often. Sometimes things just happen to take that long.