According to Wikipedia wrote:

 A drabble is an extremely short work of fiction of exactly one hundred words in length, not necessarily including the title. The purpose of the drabble is brevity, testing the author's ability to express interesting and meaningful ideas in an extremely confined space.

I find drabbles to be a nice little challenge to me as a writer. 100 words is extremely limiting and you'd be surprised, if you've never written a drabble before, how difficult it can be. I started doing little drabble challenges about a year ago on another forum as part of quarterly festivals they have. I discovered I loved them. These days I try and write one or two drabbles a day before I start doing any other writing because it wakes up my brain, so to speak.

What I'm proposing is a 15 day drabble challenge. There would be a list of 15 one or two word prompts, randomized and assigned to each day. You'd have 24 hours to write a 100 word drabble based on the assigned prompt. Can be SM themed or not.

This is a good challenge for new or experienced writers. I found out a lot about myself as a writer doing drabbles. Such as, they are extremely difficult for me because of the 100 word limit. You might find them easy, I know some people do.

If anyone is interested in this, just post here and let me know. I figure it could start on the 15th and run through the 30th.

Also, if you are doing the Accountability Challenge this month, this is an extremely easy way to get 1500 words under your belt to add to your word count.

I'm in!

drabbles? i'm in

Sure!

Oh, what the heck. I'm totally up for this. Sign me up, it'll be hard but I suppose I don't know unless I try. So would we just post the drabble in this thread then for proof?

This sounds like a lot of fun, I'm in too!

I'll give it a shot! <3

I'm in!!!

PallasMercury wrote:

Oh, what the heck. I'm totally up for this. Sign me up, it'll be hard but I suppose I don't know unless I try. So would we just post the drabble in this thread then for proof?

 Yeah, posting it here is fine. And if you miss a day, no big deal. When I first started writing drabbles I hated them because the word count is so constricting. Now I love them because of the challenge they present. I also still hate them for the word count but I understand more why its helpful and beneficial as a writer.

And thank you all for wanting to try. Its going to be so much fun. Its always interesting to see how each person uses a prompt.

Dee, when do we start? =D

Two more days!! on the 15th I believe.

Oh durrr. I am so out of it! xD 

That's perfect because then I get MY computer back that day! WOOOOT! xD

Yup two more days. When I get home this afternoon from the school's open house I'm going to start putting together a list of prompts. I'll put them up tomorrow along with what day they are for. That way you have some time to look them over and start getting ideas. I figure that would be easiest for the first time.

I've done other challenges where the prompts weren't revealed until that day and they've had a shorter time frame to write them in. I also did one challenge for a forum celebration and the prompts were tied into the over all theme of the celebration and had five words to go along with it. On the first day you had to use one word from the list, the second you had to use two words, and so on and so on until the fifth day when you had to use all five words. All that while keeping with the sub theme and 100 word limit. That one was the most challenging and most fun one I ever did.

Drabble challenges can get very interesting and creative.

This sounds like so much fun!!! Do you have any examples of drabbles, so then I have an exact idea of what we're doing? xD

Sure, I can dig up some when I get home later. I'm fixing to head out.

Thank you! <3

I'm in! I can get drabbles for my original story done this way!

Oh!   I wanna join! this is a superawesomeidea XD

I'm in. Seems interesting.

Whee more people!

Okay, Natasha asked for a drabble example and here is one I wrote a few months ago. I was bored and complaining to my bestie so she sent me a list of ten prompts.

Quote :

Ending The Silence.

Talking was our thing. I can't remember a day when we wouldn't call or see each other and spend at least an hour talking. Even if we had seen each other, we'd call and chat for an hour in the evening. It was what we did.

I don't know why we stopped or when. It wasn't a sudden thing, more like we just started talking to each other less and less until finally we didn't. As the years passed, the silence grew.

I realized now that I had so much to say and no idea how to say it.

“Hi.”

When I wrote this one and finished it was 114 words. Which meant I had to edit out 14 words. Haaaaaaaaaard. I hate editing drabbles the most because it just feels like if you take out the wrong word or sentence you lose the entire substance of the drabble.

Thank you for the example! It's quite nice actually. Maybe I could do drabbles to inspire my original story. I'm curious as to how this will go! ^^

You're welcome. I sometimes find myself writing little drabbles, with no prompts, for my originals, just to get my head back in that particular world.

I've updated my original post with the list of 15 prompts, it's hidden under the spoiler! One more day!

>.> Not exactly easy but I have a good idea for day 1. Hope it fits into 100 words. xD

WOOOT!!!! =D

Yay! Though when I read it was one more day my reaction was, "No... we have two more days it's the thritee- *looks at calendar* ARE YOU (censor) KIDDING ME?! WE'RE ALMOST HALF WAY THROUGH AUGUST?!"  

I know. I can't believe we are halfway through August either. This month seems to be flying by.

I am really excited to start this  

SO EXCITED!!!!! ZOMG! Tomorrow!~

Here's my first drabble, it's officially the 15th in my part of the world! Also, I added a link to a word counter I use online when I write drabbles.

This particular drabble is born from a plot bunny I have, a sort of creation story that I may or may not write. I may try and work it into one of my novels. It has the right feel for that novel so we'll see.