> It's even more relevant in a novel. No matter what genre you're writing in, every word should count. If writers need to stretch their story to make it into a novel, they shouldn't be writing novels in the first place.

::sighs::

I shouldn't have used the word 'padding' in the original follow-up. This'll teach me to post when I'm tired. I kinda hope, though, that everyone else can see what I was *trying* to get at despite my poor choice of words.

-Trunks