Only six drabbles this week--I had a lazy day Wednesday.
DISCLAIMER: Drabbles may suck.
Showing posts with label drabbles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drabbles. Show all posts
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Drabble Thursdays #5
Only six drabbles this week--I had a lazy day Wednesday.
DISCLAIMER: Drabbles may suck.
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Drabble Thursdays #3
Wow, this week's stories are overwhelmingly dark. Maybe next week I'll have some happier ones.
DISCLAIMER: Drabbles may suck.
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Drabble Thursdays #1
Today we get some of the first drabbles I've written. In the beginning I obviously had no idea what I was doing, but then I started warming up to it. Have a look!
DISCLAIMER: Drabbles may suck.
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Warm-Ups: Daily Drabbles
A drabble is a story that's exactly 100 words. Simple as that.
A friend of mine encouraged me to start writing them as a possible way to ease into writing communities. I don't usually write short stories, and I know a lot of people aren't going to invest their time in looking into a full-length novel unless they're sure about the author. That's where this started out: just a source of a few little stories.
I changed them into something else: a warm-up for my real writing. As I mentioned a few days ago, my intention for the next couple of months is to write a chapter of The Third Face every single day (except maybe Christmas). That mission is going rather well, and part of it is that I have started each writing day by writing a drabble.
Because each story is very short, I rarely invest a lot of time or thought into them (today's was rather silly in fact). They're just enough to say I have some amount of writing done for the day, and they get that part of my brain going just a little bit. They don't intimidate me the same way 1000 words does, and once I've done them I can't exactly say I'm taking a vacation from writing for the day!
This is a fun little thing that I definitely won't mind making a more long-term habit of. In fact, I've decided to post the results of it each week here on the blog, in a new event called Drabble Thursdays. (I chose Thursday simply because that's when I wrote the first one.) I hope to see you all here for the first week's worth!
A friend of mine encouraged me to start writing them as a possible way to ease into writing communities. I don't usually write short stories, and I know a lot of people aren't going to invest their time in looking into a full-length novel unless they're sure about the author. That's where this started out: just a source of a few little stories.
I changed them into something else: a warm-up for my real writing. As I mentioned a few days ago, my intention for the next couple of months is to write a chapter of The Third Face every single day (except maybe Christmas). That mission is going rather well, and part of it is that I have started each writing day by writing a drabble.
Because each story is very short, I rarely invest a lot of time or thought into them (today's was rather silly in fact). They're just enough to say I have some amount of writing done for the day, and they get that part of my brain going just a little bit. They don't intimidate me the same way 1000 words does, and once I've done them I can't exactly say I'm taking a vacation from writing for the day!
This is a fun little thing that I definitely won't mind making a more long-term habit of. In fact, I've decided to post the results of it each week here on the blog, in a new event called Drabble Thursdays. (I chose Thursday simply because that's when I wrote the first one.) I hope to see you all here for the first week's worth!
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