Some addictions make you stronger
Why Writers Are Obsessed With 100-Word Stories
How Drabbles Are Changing The Way We Write
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Drabbling is what happens when a perfectionist and a minimalist have a baby and raise it on haiku.
It’s CrossFit for your delete key — your backspace finger will develop abs. Your adjectives will learn to fight for their lives.
Yes. Writing a drabble is like trying to parallel park your imagination in a space meant for a bicycle. Sometimes you nail it. Usually you don’t.
And yet, there’s something satisfying about being able to squeeze a complete character arc through a hundred-word keyhole.
Makes you sharper. Cleaner. Meaner with your words.
Whether you’re scratching poems on napkins or drafting the next great American novel, drabbles will teach you things about yourself you didn’t know you needed to learn.
Consider this your warning label.
