Without looking it up, are you familiar with the literary form "drabble?&qu

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• Archergal@wandering.shop ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  @kimlockhartga @bookstodon As in the Drabblecast podcast?
  Edit: LOL, of course a bunch of folks knew the word from the pidcast

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• CuriousMagpie@beige.party ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  @kimlockhartga I know I've seen the word but I don't have any memory of what it might mean. Now I can look it up 😁
  @bookstodon

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• FeloniousPunk@beige.party ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  @kimlockhartga @bookstodon Oh no. You have just created a monster. *cracks knuckles*

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• GramrgednAngel@beige.party ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  @kimlockhartga @bookstodon yes, I am

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• anikeaten@kind.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  @kimlockhartga @bookstodon yes, only because of a writing group I was in like 20ish years ago called Drabbles, haha.

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  • kimlockhartga@beige.party ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    @anikeaten @bookstodon how cool.I would love to audit a writing class, just to be there.

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• lydialurch@mastodon.social@mastodon.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  @kimlockhartga @bookstodon Hmm…nope, I don’t think I’ve heard it before.

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• jendefer@dice.camp ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  @kimlockhartga @bookstodon I've known that literally form for probably close to 20 years. Escape Pod (sci-fi short fiction podcast) and PodCastle (fantasy short fiction podcast) would sometimes air drabbles, and there was even Drabble Cast.

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  • kimlockhartga@beige.party ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    @jendefer @bookstodon this is so cool.

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• thelunaticmartin@mastodon.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  @kimlockhartga @bookstodon I didn't know this and now I am obsessed. Mission accepted. Kinda like the haiku of storytelling.

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  • kimlockhartga@beige.party ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    @thelunaticmartin @bookstodon exactly.

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• meljoann@topspicy.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  @kimlockhartga @bookstodon oh yeah, seen it in fanfiction circles a lot!

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  • nightlysilence@sueden.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    @meljoann @kimlockhartga @bookstodon agree with you. Have heard of it when I started reading and writing fanfics as a teenager.

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• wcbdata@vis.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  @kimlockhartga @bookstodon New one on me!

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  • kimlockhartga@beige.party ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    @wcbdata @bookstodon I was so surprised I never heard of it.

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• MugsysRapSheet@mastodon.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  @kimlockhartga @bookstodon

  "Drabble" - (v) Describes the act of drooling on a Scrabble board.

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  • kimlockhartga@beige.party ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    @MugsysRapSheet @bookstodon 😂

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    • MugsysRapSheet@mastodon.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      @kimlockhartga @bookstodon
      Ironically, my made-up definition of "Drabble" is itself a drabble.

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• cptbutton@dice.camp ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  @kimlockhartga @bookstodon

  I think I only know it because Lois McMaster Bujold used it at the end of one of her novels for a reaction to [important_event] montage.

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• VoxOfGod@beige.party ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  @kimlockhartga @bookstodon as in poor writing, right?

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  • kimlockhartga@beige.party ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    @VoxOfGod @bookstodon no. That's a reasonable discernment. But, it's an actual literary form, with specific rules.

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    • VoxOfGod@beige.party ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      @kimlockhartga @bookstodon interesting!

      I think I've heard it used that way tho.

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