"I Take Another Deep Breath, And Feel the Wind Pass Through My Body..."

[psalm_onethirtyone]

Waen has been complaining about drabbles. She says it is like getting half a pair of earrings.

Well.

Personally, I think she's sulking because of this, but really, I don't agree. I love drabbles. I think it's so neat how a person can get so much feeling into one hundred words. This is not to say that a) all drabbles are fantastic, or b) full-length epics or one-shots are bad. I <3 full-length fics like anything. But I think drabbles are great, too.

petronelle, for example, writes the nicest drabbles ever. They're absolutely incredible for the number of words that go into them--there's so much description and so much expressed. She had a Remus/Hermione, I believe, a month or so back that was just the neatest. damn. thing.

sansenmage, also, writes drabbles. They explode my head, but I love them none-the-less.

But mhari writes ficlets. And her ficlets make me die of squee, too, just as much as Petra's or Seneca's drabbles. It's a different sort of squee, that's all.

And gileonnen writes Jack/Norrington fics that are long and fabulous. birdmad_girl wrote the best crossover I've ever read, and it was epic-length.

What I'm attempting to say is, I don't think length matters at all, really. I think it has far much more to do with talent.

So Waen ought to be satisfied with my incredibly talented hundred-word gifts, dammit!

Comments

[petronelle.livejournal.com]

I am deeply flattered, dear heart. I only wish I could use words in my longer pieces the way I do in drabbles, but when I try I feel like I am overworking my prose violently.

Just a diamond solitaire, please, not a whole shiny necklace; then it starts to seem like cut glass even if it's real.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

You ought to be.

Excellent.

[sansenmage.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the compliment!

Anyhow, so much can be expressed in one hundred words that it is incredible.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

You're quite welcome! You deserve it.

It is true.

[birdmad-girl.livejournal.com]

Thank you for that compliment, it has made my day. :) Because I'm aware that unfinished epic fics are teh suck, I have slowly been continuing. When I get to a point where I'm 100% sure I won't suddenly panic and realise I should have done something differently 10 chapters ago, I'll update.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

^__^ I'm glad. I loved Colour of Despair so much; I remember when I was reading it I kept getting in trouble because I'd stay on longer than I should, glued to the computer screen, wanting to finish the chapter I was on. *g* Ah, nostalgia.

But you're continuing! *squees* That's exciting. Yaymuch!