April Drabble Challenges!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

After lots of requests for another one, I thought we might make April drabble challenge month, here at discoveredinalj, with a series of differently themed/prompted drabble challenges.

A drabble is, of course, a short piece of writing that is exactly one hundred words long. It's not supposed to be just a snippet, or a snatch of conversation, it's supposed to be a whole story, an entire universe, told in just 100 words. According to Wikipedia, "The term comes from Monty Python's 1971 Big Red Book. In this book, "Drabble" was a word game where the first participant to write a novel wins. In order to make the game possible in the real world, it was agreed that 100 words would suffice."

Of course, we're not too fussy what we read about our lads, so as long as it's 100 words long, we don't mind how novel-like it is. I mean, if you really felt you had to write 100 words of porn-without-plot, we'd live with it... *g*

Oh, and if you'd like some inspiration (or just haven't seen these yet) - then here are some we prepared earlier: September 2007 Drabble Challenge, and of course The Hatstand archive has a whole section of drabbles if you'd like further examples... *g*

So - drabbles! If you comment below I will give you a random prompt to write your drabble around - when you're ready, simply post it to the comm! No need for cuts, since the posts will be so short anyway! Deadline is midnight on Sunday/Monday night, in whichever timezone you may be living (and as usual, if you move to Pago Pago briefly, that's just fine... *g*)

And finally - if anyone knows how to get rid of that large unsightly, and completely ridiculous gap between the dialj challenge banner and the beginning of posts below, I'd really appreciate hearing about it! I managed a bad banner (empty_mirrors we miss you!), but it just looks silly up there on its own! Help?! Found it! Phew!

Comments

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Excellent! And we absolutely do not discrimate against anyone who might be visiting Pago Pago. That'd be awful of us, and we just won't. So.. *g*

Your prompt is... "ribbons"

[cyanne]

Hmmm, this should be interesting. I'll see what I can come up with.

I've heard Pago Pago is nice this time of year.

[cyanne]

I was in Pago Pago and there was this earthquake... actually my Sunday got eaten up with unexpectedly long but nice family stuff, can I post tonight or have I totally missed the boat? And I know it's pathetic that I couldn't even get a drabble finished.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Totally - go for it. We're fairly loose on this one... There'll be another drabbley-challenge thing next weekend(-ish) but nowt back to back this time, so...

Yes, please do!

(And I spent the whole weekend going draaaaaaaabble! and not having a clue what to write, and only just managed it, and then there was another one right there waiting for me, so... not pathetic at all!)

[cyanne]

Just got it finished and I'm posting now. Thanks for letting me get in late. Hope you got yours to cooperate. 100 word exactly is a lot harder than it looks.