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It took me a while to finally sit down and do it myself, about 8 years a while. 8-)

I'm glad I did sit down and give it a shot. The first time was tough. When I started this contest, @free-reign was one of the first writers. I asked him how he did it and he said that he guessed the sentence length and moved on, coming back later to fix the errors. I was, before doing this myself, counting out every word before moving on. This took far more time and was fairly difficult because any flow that I would gain might be gone with the next sentence.

So true. You would be hard pressed to find a contest like this one.

Yeah, the contest is about discipline. If you get on with correcting the numbers, you may lose the flow of the story. If you, however, do a free write then you may have to do heavy editing at the end of the story. So, mix and balance of both. It takes time, but it is fun.