And why not?

A drabble is a 100-word article of fiction (not including the title). 100 words, no more no less. It gained popularity in the 80s among sci-fi authors in Britain. The term itself comes from Monty Python’s 1971 Big Red Book, which declared the drabble a word game in which two to four players compete to be the first to write a novel.

Drabbles are still popular today. In my website of mostly drabbles, brewedwords.com, I have a little more than 100 daily visitors. I started this website only a few months ago, much later than starting my articles in Medium. So there are readers attracted to drabbles. They know that drabbles are not easy to write. 

Writing a drabble is telling a story that has a beginning, middle and end, but in only 100 words. So it’s challenging to write a drabble. I begin by putting my thoughts together whatever they may be, funny, serious, thoughtful or crazy. Then I choose what sticks most on my mind. When I finish, it’s more than 100 words. Now comes the difficult part of removing words.

I have to remove words that are unnecessary to the story I want to tell. Or use a word that combines two words into one. At times the difficulty comes when I count the words and they total 98. The story is already told, but you have to add two more words. To solve this you might have to rewrite a sentence or the whole story.

It takes effort and time to write a drabble. Some of my drabbles, in fact, have inner meanings. They can only be seen by reading the drabble more than once. There are few readers who discovered that, I’m sure.

I find that writing a drabble is fun but challenging. Although they are fiction, some hint on my life or what’s happening around me even if they’re written as science fiction. It is said that people read only 20% of an article. That certainly can’t be applied to drabbles. So I am on safe ground.

I have a lot more to write about drabbles. But I don’t want to bore you. So, I hope you’ll continue to read my drabbles and find joy or wisdom in reading them.

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