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had a brief scare where I thought I'd lost my violent dog drafts but NO WORRIES it's been located :)

#not me having a heart attack all morning #you'd think this would inspire me to organize my notes #it has not

a drabble is a specific type of writing exercise that challenges the writer to write a complete story in exactly 100 words. this exercise pushes a writer to practice two different writing techniques:

to conceive and execute a full story plot with beginning, middle, and end within a very condensed and limited word count

to practice using diction and sentence structure in a way that is dense, deliberate, and evocative

point 2 is why if your story is even one word off, it is no longer a drabble. it is very hard to arbitrarily add in or remove words to reach a specific word count when a story is this short. a writer might be able to contract two words or separate a contraction if they're one word off, but even that gets hard when the word count is off by 2-3 words. it is really hard to casually add in or remove even 5-8 words in a story that dense, never mind more. the constriction of 100 words exactly pushes a writer to get more creative with how they approach constructing a story plot and encourages them to consider new and different types of diction and grammar they might not normally use.

this is why some of us are so pedantic about drabble = 100 words only. 'drabble' is not a word that was picked because someone thought a 100 word story needed a special name. a drabble is a specific type of writing exercise that loses its context if the story is not, exactly, 100 words long.

#writing #this is silly but i am feeling :/ over people saying drabble has linguistically drifted to mean any short story #it has not #a lot of people on the internet assumed it meant one thing and did not look it up to learn differently #that is not linguistic drift that is just a lot of people using the word wrong #happens to the best of us #but now you know why drabbles have a special type of name #and why people insist on using the word properly by its actual definition #also if you do like writing i highly encourage you to try writing some drabbles #they are a very fun mental workout #and also rly great for unsticking other writing in general #if only for the sweet relief of going from a restriction of 100 words for a story to writing however damn many you please 😂

YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

#girl genius liveblog #the way i SCREAMED the day this page went live #i genuinely did think for so long i would be normal about it someday. once it was old enough news the excitement would wear off #It Has Not

Im sOOOOOOOO tired and prob high from my migraines and sleep deprivation so lets make bad decisions

Give me 2 choices and I’ll pick one and maybe tell you why

#ex John Price and Ghost who will I pick #the andswer is john motherfucking priceee wooooolooooooooooooooo #im waiting for my meds to kick in #it has not #and my bACK is going to break so im laying on the bed like that bug meme #gummmyspeaks #its gonna be even funnier if i just pass out without answering any of these questions #and end up just answering them when im quote on quote sober

What do you mean November 16th was four years ago…..

#mcyt #dream smp #tommyinnit #what the fuck #what the fuck do you mean #November 16th #lmanburg #tubbo #the 16th #this is crazy #it has NOT #been four years

Everytime I read a disappointing book (which has been Very Often lately) I keep thinking of the 'thank u library' post. Truly doing wonders. Maybe I'm in a reading slump and everything is low-key Not Good but hey I'm giving the library circ stats and it cost me absolutely nothing

#yay library we love u library thank u library #the duality of fran #the only good read I had the last few months was smthn I owned #alas. alack #I should read more unread stuff on my shelves I knowwww #but I keep putting stuff on hold at the library thinking oh this one will finally break the slump #IT HAS NOT #rlly the only thing I read this year that has HIT in a way that will last has been dungeon meshi #other things did get me emo in the moment or I think we're really well written or I enjoyed #but nothing that'll STAY with me #and overall mostly it HASNT been even enjoyable or well written or silly emotions #it's just been. well. that was a book I guess #wuaguugaaugg #Fran reads #anyway I'm 1/5 into the ministry of time and it's. whatever #I have gripes #nothing enough to stop reading #but I doubt I'm gonna love it #at least it is an easy quick read #I read a fifth in less than an hour and I'm often a slowish reader #I should've just read the terror tho. this isn't it

I don’t know what to do with myself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#genuinely crying over and begging about it #I don’t know what to do!!!! I don’t know!!!!!#I have my ‘easy’ path that I’m growing so unhappy with #and I don’t know what to do otherwise!!! fucking help omg #I feel so so so so stuck #I dug myself out of a deep hole in my early 20s by hoping it would get better #it has not

a drabble is a specific type of writing exercise that challenges the writer to write a complete story in exactly 100 words. this exercise pushes a writer to practice two different writing techniques:

to conceive and execute a full story plot with beginning, middle, and end within a very condensed and limited word count

to practice using diction and sentence structure in a way that is dense, deliberate, and evocative

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