Saturday is Drabble Day!!!

[kinky-kneazle.livejournal.com]

My fellow lovely mods are letting me take over the comm this Saturday for Drabble Day! The idea is blatantly stolen from tjs_whatnot, who I hope will forgive me.

In the interest of helping creativity flow and taking a day off from fests and deadlines, we are offering a day of drabble prompts. Drabbles are short pieces of writing and in this case are intended as short, non-polished pieces to prod your creativity.

Here are the rules...

♥ Drabble Day starts midnight Saturday, September 17 and will run for 24hrs, so the last prompt will be 11pm on Saturday.

♥ Every hour, on the hour, a new prompt will be posted. The prompt will be a word, a phrase, a picture or a mini writing exercise. Write something (anything!) that comes from that prompt and post it as a comment.

♥ Of course, we love Harry/Draco, but the purpose of this exercise is to forget about fests and stresses and deadlines and let your creativity free, so any pairing/fandom/original piece of writing will count.

♥ Join in for as many or as few as you like.

♥ At the end of the 24hrs we'll congratulate everyone and rejoice in the fount of imagination that we have created and maybe we'll give a little prize for the person who writes for the most prompts.



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We're looking forward to seeing you there!

Comments

[kitty_fic]

Yay! \o/

This sounds like fun! I'm excited! <3

[kinky-kneazle.livejournal.com]

Me too!!!

[blossomdreams.livejournal.com]

Ooo I'm excited! Any pairing/fandom/original? Where do I begin? XD

[kinky-kneazle.livejournal.com]

Meet me here, Saturday, Midnight GST, and we'll get started :D

[lordhellebore]

Sounds like fun, but I have a question: do you mean real drabbles of 100 words, or are you actually meaning ficlets (= small pieces of writing with a low word count)?

[kinky-kneazle.livejournal.com]

No, just ficlets - the broader definition of drabble. All very loose and casual around here since it's about letting the creative juices flow :)

[lordhellebore]

Okay, thanks for the clarification.

[dulcemia.livejournal.com]

Ooh, am I ready to take my first-ever brave tiptoe into ficcing-in-public waters? *Splash*

Thanks for hosting this!

[kinky-kneazle.livejournal.com]

YAY! This is the perfect place - very low-stress.

[often-astray.livejournal.com]

Argh!!! I'll be gone all day Saturday!!!! Will there be another next week????

[kinky-kneazle.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately not. We have different plans for next week. But if it goes well, I'm sure we'll do it again :)

[often-astray.livejournal.com]

Ok, that's good! I'm looking forward to it!

[skriftlig.livejournal.com]

This is an amazing idea. I have a fest fic to finish this weekend, but hopefully I'll be done in time to join in. Thanks for hosting this. :)

[kinky-kneazle.livejournal.com]

Hopefully we'll see you for a couple of rounds. If not, I'm sure some of us will be in chatzy to offer encouragement.

[meglw0228.livejournal.com]

This sounds like a lot of fun! I can't wait! Too bad I actually have to sleep during part of it!

[kinky-kneazle.livejournal.com]

Me too :( I'm too old to stay awake for 24 hours these days.

[slytherincesss.livejournal.com]

You know I love this idea!

Could you clarify what time zone the challenge will start in? GMT?

[kinky-kneazle.livejournal.com]

Yes, GMT seems like the way to go! I'll clarify when I put a reminder up today.