From Blank Page To 100 Words

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From Blank Page To 100 Words
[or how to make like elsa and just “let it go, let it go…”]

How many words does one need to tell a story?

Apparently, as little as six where Ernest Hemingway is concerned.

And as a handful of other established writers in print, tv, games and movies have further proven in this challenge.


In fact, taking his cheerful and naturally fun-loving personality in consideration, simply saying “Aiba snaps” is already a story in itself. ^^V

Imagine how much you can do with a drabble?



In fanfiction, the term “drabble” is now loosely used to refer to a fiction of not more than 500/1000 words in length.

Traditionally though, drabbles are very, very short works of fiction told in exactly 100 words. No more no less.

Why limit yourself that way, you ask? This is what Wikipedia has to say about it—

“The purpose of a drabble is brevity, testing the author's ability to express interesting and meaningful ideas in an extremely confined space.”

Writing a drabble challenges you to look at your story more closely, decide on what you want it to say, then say it in the clearest, most concise way possible.

It gets you thinking. It gets you wondering. Sometimes, it even gets you experimenting, trying out new ways to better tell your story, or give a much too overused pattern a brand new twist. All for the sake of keeping everything within the limited word count without having to give up the heart of the story you are trying to tell.

But it doesn’t always have to be so dramatic. Some of the best drabbles I’ve read are ones that are so simple and normal that the weight of their unexpected impacts have stayed with me to this day.

Also, since drabbles are super short fictions, it’s something you can finish writing in, say, a day, at the most. Plus, that feeling of accomplishment you get afterwards should inspire and motivate you enough to write your next drabble. And the next. And the next.

In a week, you’ll have written 700 words. And whether all or some of them turns out so crappy you can’t even admit to yourself that you wrote them, 100 words a day of crap is still better than not having written anything at all, yes?

That’s a good enough start.

But you shouldn’t just stop there.



Writing, just as life, is a continuous learning process. You are always only as good as your last fic.

It takes a lot of effort to write, just as it takes a lot of heart to tell a story that matters.

There is a whole lot of stuffs going on in the process of writing a story. But they don’t have to keep you from taking that first step.

Remember, nobody expects you to write the most exceptional story the world has ever known (not unless you’re in some contest for it or something). Just that you write the one that matters the most to you.

And that does make it exceptional enough, doesn’t it?



Writing drabbles can definitely help you get there.

Whether you’ve been writing forever and is currently stumped for ideas, or has always thought of writing that stubborn story haunting your head, but hasn’t gotten around to doing it yet for various reasons, you can start out by writing a drabble today.

To start with, you can check out this drabble writing guideline from the drabble hosting site drablr.com

And to help you get more of a feel on what a traditional 100-word drabble is like, here's some of my favorites~

by kzmorano

• GOOGLE SEARCH HISTORY
• On the House
• When God Gambles


by horrorshow

• The Meet
• I heard my heart remind me
• The Veteran


by cwalker

• Chef
• A Moon With A View
• A Slap On The Wrist


They’re mostly horror/thriller psycho-killer stuffs with a couple of humorous gems on the side. But you know me, that’s just what I gravitate to the most. It doesn’t mean you can’t drabble in any other genres, because YOU CAN!

It’s just that horror/thriller/dark fantasy and comedy often lend themselves best to the unexpected end-twist and occasional gory vivid imageries that’s become quite a trademark of drabbles. But there’s definitely nothing stopping you from going all sweet, and fluffy and slice-of-lifey in 100 words.



I love to write drabbles, but I am in no way an expert in them.

However, this post, though it’s meandered on and on in various directions, is actually meant to be one where I attempt to share the long and tedious process behind each 100-word story I’ve been coughing up lately. (See, this is not me being lazy… At least, not all the time xD).

This is also how it usually goes with any of my other lengthy stories. Especially when I’m starting off from scratch with no definite story in mind.

It is my hope that by the end of this post, you’d have at least come up with a simple plot, if not an entire drabble (c’mon! it’s only 100 words! what’s there to lose?), to get you started.

I will be posting my own examples, too! So we can write along together~ (I will be keeping them under spoiler cuts, though, so you can do it yourself first without getting influenced by my twisted madness)

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First off, here’s what I think a drabble is~

Aside from it being short and concise, the most important point is that it has to be interesting, dynamic, fast-paced, and/or mysterious.

A drabble is meant to tease the reader’s mind. Challenge her to come up with her own interpretations/conclusions.

I don't know about you, but when I'm reading a story and figure out that “a-ha moment” on my own, I end up feeling kinda smarter. And as a reader, that makes me feel good. Like I’ve suddenly just gotten up close and personal to the writer. (You know, because we share this little secret about this little story she wrote…)

But as with everything else, you should take care not to overdo this and leave the reader hanging too far out in the dark that she just loses interest and starts questioning your sanity (a writing crime that I am guilty of for far more times than I’m willing to admit xD).

Be sure to leave her enough clues to figure something out, a sprinkling of random descriptions to help her work out a concrete conclusion by herself even after you leave the drabble hanging at such a crucial moment.

Let her fill in the blanks. Examine the story the way she wants to examine it. No interpretation is ever wrong.

Another thing that you shouldn’t overdo when writing a drabble are the descriptions. If it’s not relevant to the scene you’re trying to paint, don’t bother with it.

Do we really need to know that the characters are sitting on a sleek, leather couch they found cheap in some second-hand store while talking about their exes?

No.

Unless sitting on that particular couch plays an important role in the story you’re trying to tell.

[Maybe the couch is a monster couch that’s going to gobble them up in the end? Ooooh, now there’s an interesting story…]

Also, do not forget that you’ve only got 100 words. Do not go wandering off in all sorts of directions trying to tell more than one story at a time in one single drabble.

Stick to that one scene.

What’s happening there that’s so interesting you just have to write it?

Stick to what the characters are saying and doing at present.

Stay in the present.

Finally, the most important parts of a drabble are the first line (The Hook) and the last line (The Punch Line).

The first line sets the tone of the entire drabble. The last line delivers the unexpected/twisty impact that makes a drabble memorable, hilarious, disturbing… whatever your goal for it happens to be.

Take all of these things into consideration.

Then put all of them at the back of your mind for now and keep moving forward.

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So, now we’re ready to write a drabble. But you absolutely have nothing to write about. Don’t worry. Here’s how you can come up with a legitimate story from an absolute blank page~


1. PROMPTS

a. word/picture prompt
—sources include oneword, je-prompts, rainbowfilling (they have a 500-word minimum rule, so you’ll need to have a set of 5 drabbles for one prompt to post), tumblr, books, newspapers, magazines, wall graffiti, and just about anywhere else you can trip on words/pictures.

I’ll take mine from oneword~
kept

b. scene/concept/idea
—I’m sure you have these: scenes/concepts/ideas you’ve seen on the internet, in tv, books, news, movies, and real life, or a random one you’ve come up with for your own story that’s been nagging at your head and is just begging to be written/re-written. Choose the one that’s the most stubborn and list that down.

I just watched the 2015.05.31 episode of Nino-san, and thought this was interesting—

Nino learns how to open a window (the air came in)

c. word/picture + scene/concept/idea
—when one or the other is just not sparking anything, try combining them.

kept + Nino learns how to open a window (the air came in)

d. songs/poems
—song lyrics, song melodies, even the PV for a particular song, and a random poem you see online may all lend themselves as inspirations for a story.



2. EXPAND 1.0
Now that you’ve got a prompt, it’s time to expand on its many possibilities.

Regardless of anything else, just focus on your chosen prompt/s.

No pairs, no genres, no wondering whether or not the idea is interesting enough.

Just keep listing them down, no matter how crazy and impossible it may seem,

Whether canon or au doesn't have to matter at this point either.

Ask yourself WHO your character is and WHAT is he doing/is happening to him.

I usually do as little as five and as much as necessary to empty out all the random ideas from my head within 60 seconds.

The time limit is so that you are not tempted to think too hard about it and end up spending the entire day just on the list.

DO NOT THINK TOO HARD ABOUT IT, JUST MAKE THAT LIST~!
[Or as Queen Elsa would put it, "Let it go, let it gooooo~" ^-^V]

kept + Nino learns how to open a window (the air came in)

• nino's keeping a secret
• nino is a kept (sex) slave/he is or is not human
• nino is keeping a (sex) slave/pet/secret partner
• nino is dreaming
• nino is rapunzel/sleeping beauty/prince charming (he just woke up)
• nino needs to escape from someone/something
• nino's ac broke
• someone farted
• nino is missing someone (who may or may not have passed)
• nino just randomly thought out of boredom to try and open the window
• nino saw something strange outside/in the sky
• it's the end of the world, nino takes one final look
• nino has been lost in space for a long time, he finally lands on some planet
• nino has been cryo'd underwater,  ice melts, submarine floats back up to the surface,  he awakes, but is
he still human?


3. CHOOSE 1.0
Read through your list. Which one appeals the most to you? Which one excites you enough to want to write it?

You can combine concepts if nothing is working out

Example
nino's ac broke and someone farted
bored nino decides to open window and sees something strange, then the world ends

Try to keep it simple for now. Don’t get too ambitious and burden yourself with a complicated prompt (you can aim for that in the future). Remember, you’ve only got 100 words to work with.



4. EXPAND 2.0
Having made your choice, it's time to explore its possibilities once again.

If you have preferred pairings, this is when they will come in. Go for the more obvious one or the most unexpected one. It’s your story, so it's really all up to you.

Don't box yourself within the prompt, though, if it's branching out to a scene that has little or nothing to do with the prompt, just let it run wild and free.

Your ultimate goal here is to have a story to tell.

But again, don't think too hard. You can go crazy, silly, nonsensical with it, just don't complicate it.

Remember, you're writing a story, not a missive to inspire the entire human race. Well, at least not yet~☆

Some questions to ask yourself: WHO your character is, WHO he's interacting with (another person, his own thoughts), WHAT is he/they doing, WHAT happens that causes a sudden shift in the scene/in the character's way of thinking.

I’ve decided to go with this~

nino's ac broke and someone farted

• Aiba comes to play games, accidentally breaks ac, nino farts
• Sho comes to visit, learns to play games, randomly asks why windows are closed tight, sho farts
• Nino comes to j's place, j's ac is broken, j farts
• Ohno farts at nino's house to leave his mark, nino is amused but acts like he hates it
• Nino just farts a lot at home, guests are coming tonight
• Nino just killed someone, opens window to let out smell of person's final fart
• Nino is remembering Ohno. He thinks he smells Ohno's fart. Ohno is dead.
• Kaze trio left yama pair for a while and comes back to the smell of after sex musk and old men fart.



5. CHOOSE 2.0
Again, which scene appeals to you? Which one may lend itself to the most interesting ending?

The most unexpected, one with the most hilarious possibilities? Or the most gruesome depending on which genre you wish to aim for.

Since it’s J’s special day, I’ve chosen to do this~

Nino comes to j's place, j's ac is broken, j farts

Now that you finally have a story to tell~

6. BREATHE
Yes, take a breather.

Let that idea sink and settle in your head for a while.

Make yourself a drink, eat your meal, take a bath, open a window and smell the neighbors flowers...

Why, you ask? Well, it’s to give your mind time to relax and maybe to reward yourself a little since (heeeeeeey!!!) you’ve just come up with a story, see?! (at least part of it!!!). From having nothing, you’ve now got this one person doing this one thing and this one other person bearing witness/playing victim to it!! That’s quite an accomplishment, huh!

But, seriously. Don’t overburden yourself by going all the way through. Unless you’re feeling all pumped up and the words are just pouring out. Then by all means, write as much as you can down, and then take the break after.

Otherwise, you might end up thinking this is just too hard and lose sight of the light at the end of the tunnel. You’ll crush and kill your own motivation if you don’t pace yourself well (this is especially true when you’re writing longer fictions).

So, give yourself time to just be free from it all. Step away for a little while and busy yourself with a simple task. Maybe an hour is long enough?

Sometimes (especially when I’m writing longer fictions and am feeling a little short on ideas), I reward myself by watching one (JUST ONE!!) Arashi variety or an episode of a series I am catching up on. I often trip on more ideas to add to my prompt that way.

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Now that you're feeling rested, read that prompt you chose again, and yup you guessed it~


7. EXPAND 3.0
But this time, delve much deeper into it by asking the who-what-when-where-how-why questions.

Write everything that comes to mind, whether or not you'll find use for them later on.

Even when they start getting all inconsistent down the line, just keep writing. You can make your choices/decisions later on.

Kept + nino learns how to open a window (the air came in)
nino comes to j's place, j's ac is broken, j farts

WHO ~ expand on characteristics you may wish to convey. Just try to limit them to the ones that are related to the current setting.


I have decided to keep it canon—

• Nino and J, friends and bandmates

• Nino - snarky, understands people's feelings, can read atmosphere, claims to have never opened a window his entire life, opens one today for the first time and feels the air blow in, tends to tease people he’s familiar with

• J - stoic, perfectionist image, health conscious, unexpectedly gets embarrassed easily, loves to cook but does not like cleaning up after self, eats/does something that triggers a fart.


WHAT ~ what happens, what's happening, what's it all about

• Nino hanging out at J's place, friends getting together for a random gaming session.


WHEN ~ when does it happen? what particular time of the day? is there any special occasions involved?

• On a day off, early afternoon to night, other members probably had to attend to something else (did they deliberately bail to give nino and j time to talk/just be together?)


WHERE ~ where does the story happen? is there any particular reason why this place? Include any other descriptions you feel may be necessary to the story

• @ J's place, I'm thinking it has a verandah instead of a window


HOW ~ how are they spending their time together? how is the story going to unfold?

• Playing games, sharing a little drink, jun just prepared pasta, made a wager on who loses will clean up afterwards


WHY ~ why does the story lead to where it is now?

• Why did J fart? Why did Nino open the window? Why did the ac break? Does the ac even have to break?

• Maybe J ate something, maybe it’s just a random thing. Perhaps it’s the tea? Something in the pasta? The beer?

• Maybe the ac doesn’t have to be broken in the first place



8. DRAFT.
Now that you have those details listed down, you should at least have a vague idea about the scene you’re going to write.

Don't be too hard on yourself at this point. Just let the words flow, don't look back. Not even to correct a typo.

Just type those words out, get those descriptions, dialogues down. Let your characters talk, let them move. Watch them. Take note.

Even when it starts to sound silly or out-of-character, it’s all going to make sense in a while. Don't worry about having to show this to people, because you are not going to. This is the unseen dirty work that comes with every good story.

Don’t bother with word count at this point. But do not complicate the story, either. Stick to that one scene, to that one idea. Keep it short. Keep it simple.


You can even go as mundane and silly as I did~


Jun is going to fart somewhere in this drabble. And it's going to smell bad. It's going to smell so bad a that nino's going to have to open a window to let the air out. What did Jun eat? What did he do to warrant such a heinous release?

The others are supposed to be there, but are did not make it there. What happened? Was it intentional? They had to do something for work?

Nino and J are left to themselves.

Nino sees the embarrassed look on J's red face, avoiding his gaze, prim and proper J fraying at the seams, mumbling an I'm sorry/Excuse me/That wasn't me in a small voice.

Nino turns to the window, takes a deep breath and says the punch line. (It's okay, I didn't smell anything) (It's okay to not be perfect once in a while) (Even your fart is a perfect 10).


***Looking at this, one possible route I can see myself taking is to contrast one of the possible last lines (Even your fart is a perfect 10) with J’s image of being a perfectionist/doing things to perfection.




If you have to write in the language you are most comfortable with just to let those ideas flowing freely, then by all means do so.

Your draft can be short, or it can be as long as it has to take for you to figure out how best to tell your story without making it too complicated. Find your goal. Come up with your intended outcome. What’s your last line going to say? What’s it going to be about?



9. RE-WRITE
Having found your goal/momentum/intended outcome, it’s time to re-write your draft around it, taking into consideration the details you’ve previously come up with to help you slap more flesh into the scene.

Don’t think too hard. Just write.

• Nino and J hanging out at J’s place
• The others bailed
• J has prepared pasta
• J farts
• J is a perfectionist
• Nino sees J’s embarrassed face
• Nino opens the window and says, “Even your fart is a perfect 10.”

It must be the tea.

Then again, the tea came from J so there can't be anything wrong with it.

Just as there can't possibly be anything wrong with the man of the house himself.

The pasta? Well, the pasta was superb! As expected.

Nino may have already forgotten what it's called, but what does that matter?

J cooked the pasta and Nino even lent a helping hand. Chopping the ingredients, draining the fettuccine, all while complaining about the other members bailing out.

All while trying to keep a semblance of cool, because he hasn't usually been left all on his own to for this long to fend Jun's caustic words, his searing temper.

Already, Nino can feel himself trembling beneath his skin at the sight of those distinct brows furrowing.

But when they got to gaming and drinking, everything seems to settle and calm down.

And it's probably because of that sudden change, from the tension to a sudden calm that J's bowels reacted the way they just did.

He opens the veranda, feels the balmy afternoon breeze hit his face, turns to J and feels his heart skip at his bandmate's unusually embarrassed face.

Nino smirks. "Even your fart is a perfect 10."



• This is what I wrote. It’s more than 200 words and seems to want to go in all sorts of directions. Doesn’t quite get everything up to the plate with that last line too, does it?

• But the first line works for me, so I’m going to be keeping that.

• Second line is good, too. I guess, I was going down the right path after all.

• The line about the pasta is also fine.

• But to give more of an impact to the final line, I guess I will have to lay it on thicker just how perfect Nino thinks J is.

• Maybe there’s a bit of an insecurity there? Maybe a discomfort since he’s got a bit of a crush on the guy, and the other guys bailed and there’s just the two of them now and Nino has only been once or twice left on his own to fend for himself in J’s immediate environment.




Take note of what works for you, what doesn’t. New discoveries. New questions. New possible routes to take. What’s lacking? What areas are irrelevant to your intended outcome? If you used a different language at some point, highlight those for reference later.

Keeping these notes in mind now, it’s time to take another breather.
Let these things settle. And prepare yourself for the final, most gruesome step~

Usually, I just go take a nap at this point xD.

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10. EDIT
The expression “Kill your darlings” comes to mind.

No this doesn’t mean you have to kill your character off.

In longer fictions, this means chucking off as little as a line of dialogue to as much as entire scenes/chapters that do nothing at all for our story. Those parts that are just there to serve our own egocentric writing purposes.

We all have those, don’t we? It doesn’t always mean they are wrong. I personally find them quite okay with particular genres~♥

But when they start bogging your story down unnecessarily, trying to tell the reader a little more than they need to know, that’s when you need to start thinking long and hard about chopping these fillers off.

The general rule is that, if it’s not doing anything to move your story forward, it has to go.

If it’s serving nothing but your own self-satisfaction, you’re going to have to get rid of it.

The more in-love you are with something, the more you’re going to have to examine this particular part of your story for relevance.



This is especially true with drabbles. You have your scene. You’ve set your goal. It’s time to take out everything that doesn’t have anything to do with your expected outcome.

Don’t think that this will render your draft totally worthless and the time you spent on it wasted.

Remember that everything you’ve written in that draft helped get you here. If you hadn’t spent that time writing and expanding the way you just did, the story you have now would never have come up to the surface.

It’s just that, not all seemingly good things gets to stay. 

This is also how writing drabbles is going to help you a lot in improving your craft. You gradually become more conscious of which scenes, which dialogues, which descriptions matter. And in the future, even when you’re just drafting, you’ll tend to take note of these things quite naturally.

But for now, take a deep breath, keep a strong heart, and go hack your darling up…

Note: I usually use wordcounter.net to keep track of my words in real-time.




Goal: contrast that last line (Even your fart is a perfect 10) with J’s image of being a perfectionist/doing things to perfection.



It must be the tea.

Then again, the tea came from J it’s J’s tea, so there can't be anything wrong with it.

Just as there can't possibly be anything wrong with the man of the house himself.

The pasta? Well, the pasta was superb! As expected.

Nino may have already forgotten what it's called, but what does that matter? –no, it clearly doesn’t matter, so *hacks*

J cooked the pasta and Nino even lent a helping hand. Chopping the ingredients, draining the fettuccine, all while complaining about the other members bailing out. –unnecessary detail—does nothing at all for my goal

All while trying to keep a semblance of cool, because he hasn't usually been left all on his own to for this long to fend Jun's caustic words, his searing temper. –unnecessary detail—does nothing at all for my goal

Already, Nino can feel himself trembling beneath his skin at the sight of those distinct brows furrowing. ––unnecessary detail—does nothing at all for my goal

But when they got to gaming and drinking, everything seems to settle and calm down. –unnecessary detail—does nothing at all for my goal

And it's probably because of that sudden change, from the tension to a sudden calm that J's bowels reacted the way they just did. –unnecessary detail—does nothing at all for my goal

He opens the veranda, feels the balmy afternoon breeze hit his face, turns to J and feels his heart skip at his bandmate's unusual blushing face. –unnecessary detail—does nothing at all for my goal


Everything J does, J does to perfection.

Perhaps, it's the beer?

Or the fact that they've been sitting so close to each other that Nino's own anxieties may have already rubbed off on the guy--

"Sorry," J mumbles beside him, pausing the game.

Nino smirks and wordlessly goes to open a window.

Nino smirks. "Even your fart is a perfect 10." –rephrased to fit the changes
Even J's fart is a perfect 10.



I’ve just cut my darling down to 101 words. But there’s still something wrong with it, I think?

• Nino’s suddenly gotten anxious (Nino's own anxieties may have already rubbed off on the guy), but there’s no mention of Nino either crushing on J or feeling a wee bit insecure around him.





If another edit is in order, do it. Taking stricter note of the word count. Rewording, rephrasing to make it more concise without losing clarity and losing sight of your goal.

This is also the time to translate the parts you wrote in your own language (unless you meant to post in that language all along), but only if it's a relevant part of the story (like, a dialogue). Look it up, ask for help and take note of it somewhere so you can use it again later~

Also, take your characters’ personalities into consideration at this point and change whatever dialogues, gestures, reactions may seem a little off~

It's brutal, I know. But you only need 100 words for this, and it has to be done. T^T





It must be the tea.

Then again, it's J's tea so there can't be anything wrong with it. so it can’t be that.

Just as there can't possibly be anything wrong with the man of the house himself. –since the sentence before this changed, this is unnecessarily long now

The man of the house himself is perfection personified—

The pasta? Well, The pasta was superb, !  as expected!

Everything J does, J does to perfection—

Perhaps it's the beer, then?

Or the fact that they've been sitting so close to each other that Nino's own anxieties may have already rubbed off on the guy--

"Sorry," J mumbles beside him, pausing the game.-—what is J most likely to say being J and knowing how Nino is?

"Don't say it," J warns, scowling and pausing their game.

Snickering and blushing from an unbidden rush of man-crush jitters, Nino smirks and wordlessly goes to open a window.

Even J's fart is a perfect 10.




That’s exactly 100 words now. It’s simple and it all fits right in, I think?



It must be the tea.

Then again, J's tea can't be that bad.

The man of the house himself is perfection personified—

The pasta? The pasta is superb, as expected!

Everything J does, J does to perfection—

Perhaps it's the beer, then?

Or the fact that they've been sitting so close to each other that Nino's own anxieties may have already rubbed off on the guy—

"Don't say it," J warns, scowling and pausing their game.

Snickering and blushing from an unbidden rush of man-crush jitters, Nino wordlessly goes to open a window.

Even J's fart is a perfect ten.



• “Man of the house” clues the reader in that they are at J’s place.

• Mentioning “tea”, “pasta”, “beer” and “game” tells the reader what’s going on, what the characters are doing.

• I didn’t have to say that J’s fart smells really bad. Nino opening the window and thinking it’s a perfect 10 does that just fine.

• The anxiety is because Nino respects/admires J for his perfection. That he gets “man-crush jitters” just being with the man, eventually escalating into a very potent blush when J finally shows him an “imperfection”.

• I’d like to think that it reminded Nino that J’s just human, too. That the guy is not totally out of reach. And maybe, right at this point, he’s started considering dating J. (Heeeeh~! ♥)





Of course, I wouldn’t normally be discoursing my thoughts after a drabble. Like I said, it’s better to let the readers make their own personal interpretations. ^^V

And well, it has very little to do with the original prompt now, ain’t it? That’s okay. Prompts are there to jumpstart you. It doesn’t always have to be gospel truth. Let your story grow the way it wants to grow. You’ll have all the time to mold it into a semblance of order later.

Just always remember to focus on that one idea, keep it simple and don’t lose sight of your intended outcome, whether it’s to make people laugh, make them think, draw on those heartstrings and make them melt, or basically just disturb them.

It’s okay to go a little past 100 words for now.

The most important thing is that you’ve written a story and actually finished it. HURRAY!! ~☆

And remember those lists you made while trying to get to this point? That's a whole bunch of other prompts to expand right there! They should be enough to keep you occupied in the next few days.

Choose a different prompt/prompt combinations and come up with a different story (it doesn’t even have to be a drabble!).

Keep heart and write on~!! \(^-^)/

***Do post what you’ve come up with in the comments, or link me to wherever else you’ve posted your drabble/s. I’d love to read them~!! ♥***
***Post any questions you may have in the comments, too. I'll try my best to answer them and/or edit this post for clarity. ^^V***