the limit's 500, I thought. my teacher said that they don't include your empty boxes, so i suppose if you do go over the line, they'll look at whether the stuff over the limit fits into the boxes that you've left over. he's pretty strict with us on the character limit, so i wouldn't try to flout that.
hmm it is 500 >_> what was I thinking =S
I guess 500 would be okay then =]
EDIT: with letters there's all the crap at the end, how does that work towards the word count...?
I think everything goes towards your word count. Title, date, weather (for diary), sign off...everything. I don't think they count empty boxes and commas/fullstops, etc.
So considering it's 400-500 ji, you're looking at a 2 or so lines over into the first page for around 400 (because if you think about it, you haven't used up every single box with ji).
Oh yeah, and if you want to count I figured out a much more time efficient way to count how much you've done: only count empty boxes and those with commas, fullstops, etc. Then (for the one page) take away what you got from 400.
