Now, a well-done drabble -- an actual story that can be told in a hundred words -- that's a glorious thing. One of the first pieces of HP fanfic I ever read was Erised, (http://legato_bluesummers.tripod.com/fanfics/erised.htm) by Greer Shlivandas, which is a lovely example of the genre; there's a reason it exists, there's a reason it begins and ends where it does, and there's a reason why it's that short.
But entirely too many drabbles are 100-word outtakes from some larger story that will never be written, or 100-word outlines of what might eventually be a real story, or 100-word character-definition exercises that never ought to leave the writer's personal notebook.
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Date: 11/24/03 12:19 pm (UTC)Now, a well-done drabble -- an actual story that can be told in a hundred words -- that's a glorious thing. One of the first pieces of HP fanfic I ever read was Erised, (http://legato_bluesummers.tripod.com/fanfics/erised.htm) by Greer Shlivandas, which is a lovely example of the genre; there's a reason it exists, there's a reason it begins and ends where it does, and there's a reason why it's that short.
But entirely too many drabbles are 100-word outtakes from some larger story that will never be written, or 100-word outlines of what might eventually be a real story, or 100-word character-definition exercises that never ought to leave the writer's personal notebook.