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The one fandom question I’ve never seen answered well: what is the difference between a drabble and a one-shot? I feel like it’s a personal opinion - for me, a drabble is anything under 1k words, and a one-shot is anything 1k+.
Thoughts/comments/etc?
Yeah I feel the same. Maybe 1500 words would be my cutoff point though.
Yeah, 1500 is about right, too. I’m mostly going off the “once you hit a triple digit word count, it’s a one-shot,” theory.
So like 10 years ago when I started out fandom in Harry Potter, a drabble had a restricted word count. 100 word drabbles were really common. But it could be 300 or 500 words. But the challenge was the perfect drabble word count. And then a one shot was anything that wasn’t restricted by a word count.
This was common nomenclature in fandoms about 10-15 years ago. A drabble was, specifically, a 100-word story. A 200-word story was often called a double drabble. I’m not sure when the terminology changed; I still think of a drabble as being exactly 100 words.
Ah, yes. A drabble was EXACTLY 100 words. And then suddenly one day I looked up and drabbles were 1000 words. The times, they are a’changing ;)
Gonna die on this fucking hill, but a drabble isn’t even a fandom term, and it has a meaning and a history, and it’s a hundred fucking words. http://ift.tt/1WdZJGH Damn it. Double damn it for 200. Ahem. (I fucking hate Jeopardy, but my mother loves it.)
Other lengths have variable definitions, depending on who you ask. SFFWA for the Nebulas are as follows:
Short story < 7500
Novelette 7500 - 17,500
Novella 17500-40,000
Novel > 40,000
And, of course, NANO uses 50k for novels.
But unlike those, which were categories put into place for the sake of classifying existing shit, a drabble is a category designed around a word count as a challenge.
Like I said: I WILL DIE ON THIS FUCKING HILL, IT IS ONE HUNDRED FUCKING WORDS AND I FEEL VERY STRONGLY ABOUT THIS.
Obvs.
::cough::
Carry on.
DID I WRITE THIS OUT? A DRABBLE IS 100 WORDS. I WILL FIGHT ANYONE ON THIS.
stupidlullabies:
minim-calibre:
suzvoy:
gnomerino:
ministrychick:
whatstheproblembaby:
tobeleftoutinthedark:
whatstheproblembaby:
The one fandom question I’ve never seen answered well: what is the difference between a drabble and a one-shot? I feel like it’s a personal opinion - for me, a drabble is anything under 1k words, and a one-shot is anything 1k+.
Thoughts/comments/etc?
Yeah I feel the same. Maybe 1500 words would be my cutoff point though.
Yeah, 1500 is about right, too. I’m mostly going off the “once you hit a triple digit word count, it’s a one-shot,” theory.
So like 10 years ago when I started out fandom in Harry Potter, a drabble had a restricted word count. 100 word drabbles were really common. But it could be 300 or 500 words. But the challenge was the perfect drabble word count. And then a one shot was anything that wasn’t restricted by a word count.
This was common nomenclature in fandoms about 10-15 years ago. A drabble was, specifically, a 100-word story. A 200-word story was often called a double drabble. I’m not sure when the terminology changed; I still think of a drabble as being exactly 100 words.
Ah, yes. A drabble was EXACTLY 100 words. And then suddenly one day I looked up and drabbles were 1000 words. The times, they are a’changing ;)
Gonna die on this fucking hill, but a drabble isn’t even a fandom term, and it has a meaning and a history, and it’s a hundred fucking words. http://ift.tt/1WdZJGH Damn it. Double damn it for 200. Ahem. (I fucking hate Jeopardy, but my mother loves it.)
Other lengths have variable definitions, depending on who you ask. SFFWA for the Nebulas are as follows:
Short story < 7500
Novelette 7500 - 17,500
Novella 17500-40,000
Novel > 40,000
And, of course, NANO uses 50k for novels.
But unlike those, which were categories put into place for the sake of classifying existing shit, a drabble is a category designed around a word count as a challenge.
Like I said: I WILL DIE ON THIS FUCKING HILL, IT IS ONE HUNDRED FUCKING WORDS AND I FEEL VERY STRONGLY ABOUT THIS.
Obvs.
::cough::
Carry on.
DID I WRITE THIS OUT? A DRABBLE IS 100 WORDS. I WILL FIGHT ANYONE ON THIS.
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Date: 2017-08-20 01:20 pm (UTC)