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To help decide on a benchmark for minimum amount of words per chapter, I have my OpenOffice set-up at Verdana font at size 9.6 (which is the exact size of the font used on the forums). 1000 words is a page-and-a-half, and 2000 words is three pages. That should be a decent-sized chapter and easily do-able.
When I created the quality rule, I debated about including a minimum word count per chapter. The reason why I didn't add any minimum word count was because I didn't want that to be the only qualifier. So long as the story was readable, it could be short as it needed to be. If/when you add a minimum word count to the rules, just clarify that stories shorter than that are allowed as long as they're of readable quality. That would also count towards poetry, in case someone only has one poem that they want to share at a time (and none of them are epics).
When I created the quality rule, I debated about including a minimum word count per chapter. The reason why I didn't add any minimum word count was because I didn't want that to be the only qualifier. So long as the story was readable, it could be short as it needed to be. If/when you add a minimum word count to the rules, just clarify that stories shorter than that are allowed as long as they're of readable quality. That would also count towards poetry, in case someone only has one poem that they want to share at a time (and none of them are epics).