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[Furiosa from Mad Max: Fury Road, AEon Flux from the AEon Flux Movie. Charlize Theron]

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[WWE/Supernatural]

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[The Price of Salt/Carol]

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[Bravely Default]

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[Bones/X-Files]

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[Zenon]

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[Fallout: Nuka Break]

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[Neko Atsume]

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[Mass Effect]

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I saw someone label a one-shot that was over 2000 words as a drabble?

Isn't that too long? I thought drabbles were meant to be really short. I seem to remember reading one upon a time that they had to be exactly 100 words.

What's the cut-off these days? Is there even a cut-off? Is everything that doesn't have chapters a drabble now?

It seems that these days a lot of people use drabble when they mean ficlet. Personally I'm comfortable with drabble being used for anything 500 words or less, but after that I think ficlet is a better word until it is long enough to be a proper fic. And 2000 words is actually probably long enough to be a proper fic depending (certainly most PWPs are around that length or even less).

It's 100 words. I believe that's the traditional, standard definition but people tend to use "drabble" for small, typically open-ended pieces. I think for the purpose of streamlining, they should use drabble for anything 100 words and flash fiction for 700 and under, and over that it's a free for all.

under a 1000 words, but that's my expanded definition

Drabble is exactly 100 to me, with ficlet being everything else under 500, or I suppose up to 1k if left open-ended? Everything above 1k is definitely a proper fic, though.

100 words. Period. Anything else, call it a flash fic.

Technically a drabble is exactly 100 words. Some communities are a little liberal with this. But 2,000 words is definitely not a drabble.

If you want to be super pedantic it's a fic that's exactly 100 words, but the common definition has expanded to include anything less than about 700 ime.

2k is definitely NOT a drabble, it's just a one-shot.

I know am in the minority but for me a drabble is 100 words - maybe a few more or less if I am being generous. Just like a sonnet is 14 lines of 10 syllables, a haiku is 17 syllables or a limerick is a 5 line poem is an AABBA meter. That is the challenge - to write something within those constraints. If it doesn't - than it is a flash-fic, a ficlet, a mini-fic. Doesn't mean it is not good - it just means it is not a drabble.

Nothing. Nothing means anything anymore.

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