User blog comment:Rinji79/Short Story Contest 2015!!!!!/@comment-4080028-20150925121218

Considering the themes you've presented this year seem more "up my alley" so to speak, and because I feel I have more resources to work with in terms of last year's themes (as in my characters and what not,) AND because the prize is indeed tempting, I think I may try and give this a shot this year.

My only worry is the word limit I'll be facing. Knowing me, if I worry about it too much, I may end up making my story too short, and if I don't worry about it at all, it may stretch on too long. But meh, I wanna have fun with a random non-canon "just for fun" short story involving my characters and I'd like to see if I can lay claim to an elusive Logia fruit. It'd be nice to see what I can do with such a power. So, if my story turns out to be too short, I'll try and flesh it out a bit more, and if it's too long, I'll trim it down here and there. My apologies if this compoicates things, but I simply just don't count how many words I make while writing. Never got into the habit of it, and I really don't care one way or the other outside of this competition about how many words I write. So with that kind of attitude, it's no wonder I'm going to be rushing in blindly here. But hey, like I said, I can try and be adaptable to the outcome. If it's too long, I shorten it. If it's too short, I lengthen it. I know it may seem like a pain to the judges, but to me it feels like the best way for me to go about my writing without having too much to fret over and without getting tripped up because I had to count all the words I as writing. For me, that's like counting how many steps you've taken while doing something else in the meanwhile, like talking with friends, going through mental checklists, etc. It's a bit overwhelming. >_<

But ah well, enough belly-aching from me. lol I'll be willing to give this a shot this year. If I win, awesome! A 2nd Logia Devil Fruit! If I lose, then I hope I just had a good time doing this. Of course this means though that I'm going to have to put almost everything else on hold so I can get this done by December. If I don't, you'll never see my story by the deadine; not even kidding there.