Fun with Drabbles

[niko]

Oh, man, I am *so* enjoying this.

I used to fancy myself an adequate writer back in the day, but my weakness has always been the long game.  My plotting just sucks.  I can usually manage to capture a single scene pretty well... I like to think I've got a decent command of the language, decent ear for dialog, etc.  But figuring out how to get characters from Point A to Point Z along a plausible and interesting path always stumped me.

So, this idea of drabbling as it's own little artform is wunderbar!  This focus on capturing a moment or scene to perfection within guidelines...it's almost like a poetry/fiction crossbreed.

My couple pieces this week have been very satisfying in a "get back on the horse" kinda way.  Don't know if I'll have the nerve to write anything once the relative freedom of the "crossover" theme is over and it's back to just the Weiss universe, but I am *so* enjoying all the variety in challenge approaches from the community on the whole. Heart-breaking drama one moment, terrific silliness the next. I'm obsessed. :)

I wish I had the nerve and "cred" to try starting a thread like this on ExIsle for Drom.  I've always had an urge to dabble (drabble? *groan*) with Beka and Harper and Rommie and the gang...