Update.

[mrsronweasley]

Bed-ridden = coding.

I updated my website with "Practical Diplomacy". I'm working on adding all the "Five Things" drabbles I did a while back, as well as the boot-porn and...

I have a question. When a drabble becomes 1400 words, is it still technically a drabble? Or does it travel over to the "fic" pile? Because I'm not sure where this should end up. Um. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

In other news, it's 80 degrees out and it's nearly October. Anybody else find that wrong?

Comments

[terredancer.livejournal.com]

For me, anything more than 300 words no longer qualifies as a drabble.

Anything over a 1000 words is a fic. *g*

Anything between is a ficlet.

But that's me.

[mrsronweasley.livejournal.com]

Yeah, okay, so, according to you lot, I've NEVER written a drabble. Huh. Good to know. *g*

Thaaank you! :)

[woo2step.livejournal.com]

Does "drabble" still technically mean a story of 100 words, or have we pretty much thrown that meaning out? I don't know! I just don't!

However, my own personal definitions go along the lines of:

100 words = drabble
101-999 words = ficlet
1000+ words = fic

[mrsronweasley.livejournal.com]

Um, I've pretty much NEVER kept to that rule, so to me, a drabble is something I write in, like, ten minutes or less, that's short and informal. I guess.

But I like your rules. I'll stick with them. This was filed under 'fic' on my site, because I have no 'ficlet' category. Eh?..

[mayatawi.livejournal.com]

Dude, I'm a total drabble purist. Drabble = 100 words. Anything over that is fic.

Which may or may not be a helpful opinion for your purposes.

[mrsronweasley.livejournal.com]

Ahahahahahah...NO. *g* My drabbles are never a hundred words. That's my story and I'm sticking with it!

Hi. It went under fic. :P

[seviet.livejournal.com]

A drabble is 100 words. You can call it a ficlet or a polka-dotted pig, or whatever -- but it isn't a drabble anymore. ;)

[mrsronweasley.livejournal.com]

OMG, you people and your purity of drabble! A drabble is anything short. No, really. I SWEAR.

[cabari.livejournal.com]

To me, drabble's not a real word so you can use it to describe anything you want. You could have a 10,000 word drabble and I'd probably read it. However, the fandom-appropriate definition is 100 words exactly, which is really limiting and silly. So, in other words, if you want fandom to be happy, 100 words, if you don't give a shit, call it what you want.

In other other words, I dunno.

[mrsronweasley.livejournal.com]

Well, see, it's not so much a question of caring what it's called as "where do I post it" - under fic or drabble? It went under fic. 'Cause, really, over 1000 words? Even I can't call it a drabble anymore, and my definition of a drabble is, apparently, a lot looser than everybody else's. *g*

[cold-poet.livejournal.com]

You could call it a "ficlet" :D