Yeay Saturday, especially chilly grey Saturdays, because just maybe it'll turn out to be far nicer to stay indoors, tucked in front of your keyboard/pen and paper, and take part in another little Dialj challenge?
This part of April's Drabble Month is courtesy of
probodie - a Drabble Tree Challenge! The idea is that we start out with one drabble, and the next person/people to post a drabble
have to begin their drabble with the word that ended the last one. The last word of
those drabbles is the first word to begin the
next drabbles posted, and so on. You can choose any drabble already posted (even the first one again) as the one that you grow out of - just use the last word of it to begin your own drabble. At the end of the weekend, we'll have a
drabble tree - a series of drabbles that "grew" from each other, and ultimately from the first drabble!
The drabbles
shouldn't be sequels to any other drabble - a drabble is supposed to be a complete story in itself, standing alone. It makes the whole story blossom in the reader's mind, in one glorious 100-word read.
My favourite drabble ever isn't really a drabble at all, it's a "six word drabble" by Earnest Hemingway:
"For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn."Six words, and in your mind the whole story of that family is suddenly right
there.
That said, the only real rules for this challenge are:
1. Drabbles have to to use the last word of someone else's drabble as the first word of their own
2. Drabbles must be 100 words exactly.
Two rules, to make it a
challenge, but otherwise do what you will - because it's
really all about the fun of writing Pros, innit? *g*