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Should a caption have no more than a thousand words?

Poll ended at Sat Mar 04, 2006 6:59 pm

Yush! It makes sense!
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20%
Nuuuu! Baby, it was born to run!
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30%
I, um... Don't know?
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10%
Feh... I would play it safe... By adding images related to the first so I can use more words. ;p
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20%
I don't care. Nyeh-nyeh!
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20%
I have a better idea: instead of a thousand words... [idea said here]
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Total votes : 10

Does this make sense?

Postby Mitera Nikkou » Sat Feb 04, 2006 6:59 pm

Captions are a form of writing, but it doesn't have any defined line that decides where a caption ends and a story with a picture begins. Other classifications of writing are measured by how many words there are or, like poetry, what style. So... If a picture is worth a thousand words, should a caption contain no more than a thousand words? What do you think?
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Postby Daffodil Aura » Sat Feb 04, 2006 7:53 pm

The right word is worth a thousand pictures, too....

If you doubt, go do a google image search. ^.~
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Postby SweetSophia » Sat Feb 04, 2006 9:26 pm

I put the don't know one, but I should have put the promotion of Stories one. READ MAH STORIES.
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Postby ZeroForever » Sat Feb 04, 2006 10:42 pm

after a point i think it stops be a caption and becomes a short story or just a story in general.
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Postby Mitera Nikkou » Sat Feb 04, 2006 10:51 pm

Oh, Aura! XD If only certain words did bring up a thousand images... Like faery, fairy, fae, fay, fays, fee, fees, faeries, fairies, pixy, pixie, pixies, sprite, sprites, nymph, nymphs, nymphae, nature spirit, undine, deva, devas, diva, divas, dryad, dryads, hamadryad, hamadryads, sylph, sylphs, mermaid, mermaids, merfolk, nereide, nereides, sylvan, sylvans, yousei... And I have a ton more I could use, but they're less popular and too specific. But I've tried all of those above and I don't get a thousand of what I want. ~.~ With nymph, I get alot of young insects or something. >.<

EDIT: Yeah, Zero, but where is that point? That's what I'm wondering. If they have to be so short like the ones at Fictionmania, I would rather die. (And the captions at Fictionmania are just terrible. T.T)
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Postby Mistress Guendolen » Sat Feb 04, 2006 11:46 pm

Aw, just do whatever it takes to tell the story you need to tell. If it's getting out of hand on you, just submit it as a short story and make a link to the image that inspired it. :) Go with the flow, and see what happens.
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Postby Mitera Nikkou » Sun Feb 05, 2006 12:00 am

I don't have a flow. XD;; *Baps evil gutter-mind again* But I hope to have one someday. <.<;
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Postby Mistress Guendolen » Sun Feb 05, 2006 12:12 am

Hey, if we have a flow, so do you; it just goes the other direction. ;) (See? You're not the only one with a twisted mind around here!)
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Postby Becca » Sun Feb 05, 2006 12:14 am

I say no.

If the text with the caption is good, who cares if it's more of a story then a caption.

Stories are good.

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