Talk:Operation Spider Crab

Tolkienfan: Why aren't I surprised to see that of the very few articles about specific books to be written, this one is easily the longest?

Bellatrix: Because you're Tolkienfan, and you don't believe in writing short summaries.

Tolkienfan: Correct. I appear to have successfully trained myself to write succinct essays for college, but I'm incapable of being brief when I'm writing voluntarily.

Bellatrix: I can't even write short summaries at school, and anyway, now mine's almost as long as yours.

Tolkienfan: I haven't looked at the Run infopage in far too long. I guess the reason I can write short-ish essays is that generally the topic doesn't interest me that much. It's worse when I'm allowed to pick the topic, because then I have to claim the title and reference list don't count as part of the word count so it doesn't get flagged as being too long.

Bellatrix: Ha, yup, I know how it feels. I had to write an essay for a contest last year, and unlike most of my classmates, I had to delete vast amounts of writing to be within the word limit.

Tolkienfan: The educational world is basically divided between those who struggle to meet the lower word limit of 500, and those who struggle to keep down to the upper one of 2000. Reading through this wiki, it seems that all the CCRP people who regularly use it are in the latter camp.

Bellatrix: Sounds about right.