The rules do not seem unreasonable to me, but I have a few questions.

1. When you say one character per story, do you mean one main character? Let's say we no one has 'Earl' as the character they are writing about. Can we use 'Earl' as a secondary character?

2. I think having background information on a character is important, but I agree that too much is not good. But what's the limit? How much is too much -- when do I need to take the material to a solo thread?