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What Exactly Is a Drabble?
A fiction form that’s ideal for Medium
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3 min readSep 15, 2022
Greetings, authors!
Don’t you want to be able to write a bunch of short but punchy stories… and do so much quicker than a traditional short story?
Enter: the drabble. An ultra-short but fully-told story.
For a few marvellous examples, I shared some great drabbles in the story below, including interlinked sets by some of my favorite authors:
The rules
So, what exactly is a drabble?
A drabble is a fiction form. It’s at the shorter end of flash fiction, to say the least. It is defined by its word count — each drabble should have only 100 words, no more, no less (usually, this limit includes the title).
It should nevertheless be a complete story, with a beginning, middle, and end.
