Oh gosh, with YOUR writing, it's all real; I'm sure you could write a 1-sentence story with punh to it.
With mine, though, drabbles save me from having to deal with all the big problems I'm fighting in order to turn out stories of any length -- interactions between more than two characters, a coherent plot and story structure, sustained themes, layers, and originality, and accurate IC characterization. For me, it's a heck of a lot more work and effort and care for me to manage all of that, and drabbles eliminate 90% of those complications.
I'm also just starting to write again. I did write Myst fanfic years ago and a tiny bit of LOTR, but I've really not written anything except academic papers in so very long that I feel like I've atrophied. Drabbles help me flex the teensy tinsy muscles, but there's some bigger ones that need to relearn the art.
I'm not sure. I know drabbles help some people take a brain break from writing their longer stories. I guess I feel as if, since they're a "break" or breather, they're relaxing on the one hand (I know the feeling!) but they're not quite of the same flavor and quality.
However writing like yours and cupcake's puts the lie to it being in any way inferior in quality!
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Date: 2006-06-06 01:18 am (UTC)With mine, though, drabbles save me from having to deal with all the big problems I'm fighting in order to turn out stories of any length -- interactions between more than two characters, a coherent plot and story structure, sustained themes, layers, and originality, and accurate IC characterization. For me, it's a heck of a lot more work and effort and care for me to manage all of that, and drabbles eliminate 90% of those complications.
I'm also just starting to write again. I did write Myst fanfic years ago and a tiny bit of LOTR, but I've really not written anything except academic papers in so very long that I feel like I've atrophied. Drabbles help me flex the teensy tinsy muscles, but there's some bigger ones that need to relearn the art.
I'm not sure. I know drabbles help some people take a brain break from writing their longer stories. I guess I feel as if, since they're a "break" or breather, they're relaxing on the one hand (I know the feeling!) but they're not quite of the same flavor and quality.
However writing like yours and cupcake's puts the lie to it being in any way inferior in quality!