Poems at the Poetry Free-for-all - Character limit in prose posts

Frink

10-11-2003, 01:49 AM

I tried posting a short story in Prose and was greeted with a small window telling me that it was too long.

Is there a way around this restriction?

If not, should I post the excised section in the form of a reply to the truncated piece?

(I think 50000 characters is a bit stingy for a story. I mean, it's hardly War And Peace, is it?)

(edit to say: I decided to split it along chapter-ish boundaries and made it multiple replies to the original chapter. Hope that doesn't mean I'm now obliged to critique about 30 prose pieces or something, and I hope it's not a breach of the rules to do so.)

HowardM2

10-11-2003, 02:04 AM

PFFA is "Poetry Free-For-All"; that means our primary focus is on poetry. The "Prose" Forum is offered as a convenience for our regular posters to post short prose pieces. If your piece is too long for a single post, then you will have to divide it up and post separate parts of it on different days; that's standard practice here. You will owe comments to three others for each post that you make; a piece divided into two parts will obligate you to six sets of comments. The post length is set so as to prevent any one individual from tying up an inordinant amount of the board's available bandwidth.

If your primary interest is in prose fiction, you perhaps should use Google to hunt up other prose/fiction boards more attuned to your particular interests and needs. Zoetrope has an excellent reputation as a fiction forum.

Howard

Frink

10-11-2003, 02:08 AM

Double oops.. started editing my original post before the reply showed up, and now I look like I was blatantly disregarding it on purpose when I didn't even see it. I'll get my coat...

HowardM2

10-11-2003, 02:35 AM

This thread (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=13866) contains some recommendations concerning fiction boards, with links. You might find something among them that would suit your needs better. There's also a thread in the "Other Venues" Forum specifically about Zoetrope which, as I said, has a very good reputation.

Good luck.

Frink

10-11-2003, 02:49 AM

Thanks for that, sorry to waste your time. If you feel so inclined, and up to it, you might as well read the too-long-short-story I posted anyway, unless it's about to get removed of course.