drabble time!

[presumenothing]

Challenge #6

In your own space, Create something. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Decided to put those subscriptions to fic prompt comms to use by doing a Guardian drabble for 100words, linked below!

A lot of what I write is in the several-hundred-words range by default, but it's been a long while since I really restricted myself to exactly 100 words so this was a nice challenge. I'm definitely out of practice at sticking to a particular word count – this idea kept wanting to expand into the 200-word range even while I was beating it down with a mallet. Behave, you gremlin.

(Admittedly I also had a more recent run of writing one-tweet-length (i.e. 280 character) fics during my stint in The Promised Neverland fandom, but I'd argue writing that sort of micro-fic is its own kind of beast entirely.

And come to think of it, the last time I did drabbles regularly was on 100wordstories when I was exploring around LJ, so it's nice to come full circle I guess? Definitely an instructive experience, judging by how I do semi-often get comments about how much story and/or worldbuilding I've managed to cram into the little amount of fic real estate I use.)

( fic: look at your life, zhao yunlan, look at your choices )

Comments

[tellshannon815]

I know what you mean re the word limit, I was working on one for 100words and had to make quite a few edits! Thanks for participating

[cornerofmadness]

Oh very nice. And I hear you, I tend to write novella/novel length but I miss my old Buffyverse drabble community. Those 100 words really help you learn what is absolutely necessary to your story

[presumenothing]

Those 100 words really help you learn what is absolutely necessary to your story

Absolutely, yeah. It's hard to realise how short 100 words actually is until you start writing and very soon hit the "oh huh that's too many words already" wall haha.

[cornerofmadness]

definitely. What I find even harder is flash fic with a 300 word count. I do that once a year with a publisher I work with. Sometimes it works, sometimes no

[vriddy]

This may sound silly, but how do you manage communities like 100words on your reading page? Do you use filters? I find this kind of challenges interesting but when I see that it means getting several posts every day usually related to fandoms I'm not into, it seems like a lot of scrolling...

[presumenothing]

Right now it's not at a level that bothers me (not really high frequency, and I'm used to seeing potentially even more other-fandom content on my Tumblr dash anyway) but if it ever gets to that point then I'll probably try to figure out the reading page filters, yeah.