[ SECRET POST #2462 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2462 ⌋

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Comments

[lady_songsmith]

Preach it, OP! A drabble is a form just like a sonnet or haiku, and part of the artistry in writing drabbles is dealing with that constraint. 'Any length you want as long as it's short' removes the need to choose words with care -- not that short fic isn't very good (subject to Sturgeon's Law like all else) but they shouldn't be called drabbles.

I mean, I'm not going to quibble about, say 98 or 103 word fics, because of the many ways to count words, any more that I quibble about the abuse of em-dash and parentheticals in a 3-sentence fic, but there should be at least an aweness of the form's limitations.

[nyxelestia]

I can't really see the point of a drabble if you aren't at least trying to adhere to the 100-word restriction. It's like writing haiku with more than the 5/7/5 combo - if you aren't working with that restriction, what's the point?

[lady_songsmith]

Exactly! And the format really gives it punch, if you're willing to work with it. My best piece of writing is a drabble. It was HARD, but paring out the extra words really made what was left bite hard. Loose word counts just water down the story.

I don't mind about +/- 5; that's in the quibble range of technicality (auto word count that uses spaces? that uses characters divided by 5? hand counting? is 'a' a word? are not-usually-hyphenated adjectives counted as one word?) but outside that range you're not even trying.

[nyxelestia]

I have yet to find a good "drabble" when it wasn't 100 words, but found some fantastic ones when they stuck to the wordcount. I suppose that's the one upside about people's misuse of the drabble tag - if it says drabble and it's way more than 100 words, I know not to bother reading it.