Lol, a bit of a writer’s block?

This was inspired by a comment made re: another ficlet: since the nirvana bean-counter counts formatting characters towards the character total, could one achieve “ficlet nirvana” with a one-sentence ficlet?
I’m pleased that you bravely gave it a shot. I may have to make an attempt, myself. I’d love to see others try, too.
Part of the fun of this site is experiments like this one. Keep writing!

Well, in that case, four stars! But, how do you do the cross-throughs on the text?

- that thingy.

Ohh, this thingy?

You’ve got it!

After reading Howie’s explanation, it makes a bit more sense. Not much, but a bit.