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

[tears-of-nienna.livejournal.com]

For my own purposes, drabbles have to be 100 words. And really, if that's the only way the OCD chooses to manifest itself, that's fine with me. But I don't hold other people to the same scrutiny--I don't go counting words and then sneering at people whose drabbles are 102 or 175 words long.

I recced my favorite HP drabble in the poll itself, but Losseniaiel (http://www.fanfiction.net/u/232618/) writes beautiful Tolkien drabbles, as well.

And this (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2015049/1/) is my favorite drabble wot I wrote. /self-promotion

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

I can't tell just by reading if a drabble is bit more than 100 words, so really it doesn't matter to me as reader, but as a writer, like you say, OCD takes over and I hold myself to the 100 word limit compulsively.