On drabbles
May. 7th, 2005 12:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daemonlunaDear Fandom,
A drabble is not a short-short story, a scene, a vignette, or a ficlet. A drabble is exactly one hundred words. That's what makes it a drabble. The challenge therein lies in fitting what you want to say into a very small space with a very specific limitation, often with a last line that rewrites the reader's expectations.
Three or four paragraphs? 264-word drabbles? Cut that shit out.
Sincerely,
Me.
(Okay, sometimes it's up to a hundred words, according to Wikipedia. But still.)
And now, I need to go write some of the drabble that I owe assorted people. And yeah, deal with the low blood sugar.
A drabble is not a short-short story, a scene, a vignette, or a ficlet. A drabble is exactly one hundred words. That's what makes it a drabble. The challenge therein lies in fitting what you want to say into a very small space with a very specific limitation, often with a last line that rewrites the reader's expectations.
Three or four paragraphs? 264-word drabbles? Cut that shit out.
Sincerely,
Me.
(Okay, sometimes it's up to a hundred words, according to Wikipedia. But still.)
And now, I need to go write some of the drabble that I owe assorted people. And yeah, deal with the low blood sugar.
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Date: 2005-05-08 09:27 pm (UTC)