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:p

Trouble-maker.

:PPPPP

TEAM ANARCHY

~LANGUAGE EVOLUTION~

Also was this the subject of that wank Opal sent to me one time? because that was the best wank of all the wanks

I don't really remember. Could be? :D

IT WAS. I remember because I knew it would be MICHELLE VS KALI THE EPIC SHOWDOWN.

LAZY.

NOPE THAT IS HOW LANGUAGE WORKS

LA. ZY.

USING SLANG IN A NEW WAY IS NOT LAZINESS

100 words exactly is oppressive termonology

*OPPRESSES*

I remember when it was absolutely 100 words. And then it just started being used for any very short fic. Which always annoyed me, but that's not a cat that's going back in the box.

Schrodinger would figure out a way.

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I don't mind when people do double drabbles or triple drabbles. I just sort of hate that it's lost its original purpose. That it used to mean you struggled over exactly which words to use.

I see that the majority of your flist is on The Side of Righteousness on this one.

Hooray!

Back in my day, we had to wrestle with the words! Have swordfights if we wanted to keep them! None of this lazy 100 ± 350 words malarky! Someone bring me my whiskey. And my teeth. Goddamn kids in my fandom.

:P

BWAH! XD

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I've done round robins, but never drabbles! Interesting.

I'm pretty sure that in Star Trek, a drabble was 100 words before either you or I showed up you-know-where. Or so I was told during my brief stint in ST:V. I am of course too lazy to find proof.

ETA: Sorry, the first comment was supposed to go somewhere else. I think.

Edited 2011-05-20 21:40 (UTC)

Though a drabble between friends is negotiable. Consenting adults and all.

*wiggles eyebrows*

A drabble is 100 words. A short fic that is longer than that but less than 1000 words is a vignette.

*nods* These are the terms I use.

Huh. To me a vignette is a short piece that takes place entirely in the character's head. No plot allowed, frequently but not necessarily in the first person. These seem to be called POV fics in some circles these days. I kind of hate them, no matter what they're called.

To me that's introspection. One of the definitions of vignette is "any small endearing scene, view, picture, etc." Meanwhile the definition of introspection is "observation or examination of one's own mental and emotional state, mental processes, etc.; the act of looking within oneself," which fits much better what you are referring to.

You're using real-world definitions to apply to fandom. It does not compute. *g*

A drabble is exactly 100 words! I remember editing many a drabble to keep it at 100 words. It's an exercise in discipline!

On the other hand, when people go over the word limit, I get more fic.

That's a bit of a conundrum.

Good point. Hmmm. That is a conundrum.

My language to define what kind of fic I'm writing is probably too vague. I am incapable of being restrained by terms like drabble, or numbers like 100. Mainly because I am bad at counting. And my sentences are long. And the counting bit again.

I'm sorry! T_________T

You're like the wind, baby!

LOL MICHELLE, I THINK THIS IS A FIGHT YOU ARE DESTINED TO LOSE EVENTUALLY.

57.89% OF PEOPLE AGREE WITH ME.

SPEAKING AS A MATHS GENIUS, STATISTICS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY.

*mutters*

There's nothing wrong with writing 103-word vignettes or ficlets, but the word "drabble" refers to a 100-word piece. The point of drabbles is that it is difficult to make it precisely 100 words, and thus some skill or craft is necessary. Not every short poem is a haiku, and not every short fic is a drabble. I'm not sure why people have such a desire to use the word if they don't want to actually use the format.

*nodnod* My thinking precisely.

A drabble is one hundred words exactly. Anything else is heresy, like claiming a haiku can be any number of syllables you darn well feel like, or that an English sonnet might occasionally have 27 lines rather than 14. HERESY.

AMEN!