You always end up with more than ten sentences, or fewer than ten, and have to lie with the punctuation: either you string a whole bunch of perfectly nice little sentences together into one long ponderous long-winded sentence, wobbling with semicolons and concatenating participles, or else you prune one nicely-fruited and melodious sentence into several little nondescript and needlessly emphatic bites.
Blather to that, I say, and balderdash.
Not only is it not possible, it is inherently senseless and possibly dangerous, contributing to the development of a diseased imagination.
If we all sat around all day constructing stories in ten sentences, who would be minding the peas and carrots?
Not that anybody's minding them now, for that matter, but you know what I mean.
Make a rule: ten peas per pod?
So you see this form is utterly ridiculous: it is devious and spurious, and flaming with envy.
Er, um, ....no; that is not what I meant to say.
That is not it at all.
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