The Truth about Drabbles

[louiselux]

I want to know what you all think about drabbles. For me, the best drabbles have an impact that is inversely proportional to their size-- they hit the reader round the face with the all the force of a large well-swung haddock. That's what I aspire to, anyway, one day. I also tend to think that to do that they require a lot of time and effort.
[Poll #385199]

Comments

[luthien.livejournal.com]

I didn't answer 'as deserving of effort as long stories' simply because drabbles never take me long to write. I find they're either there, or they're not. The bones of them come to me with the idea, and most of the actual writing involves refining the initial draft. I want them to be as close to perfect as I can make them because I'm always pretty exacting about any fic that I write, but that's not quite the same thing as effort.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think you have a good point - it's not effort as in time expended, but as in the need to make it as good as you can, even if it's only 100 words.