drabble
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- noun
- /ˈdræbəl/
- Jargon
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drabble
- Her many articles for the magazine have included book reviews and interviews with Joyce Carol Oates, Rick Brogg, Alan Furst, Margaret Drabble, and other authors.
Examples
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Private Drabble.
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Hell, my sister and I composed a Speed drabble one night, even though neither of us had anything more than a passing interest in the movie.
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Author's Note: This is a sort of drabble.
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Write a poem, write a drabble, write a six-sentence story.
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Drabbles, definitely not.
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Luckily, I have saved some drabbles from the 100 themes challenge on my little scrapbook, and luckily I updated Broken and Fixed before it was too late.
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More marginally, Fred Clark's read-through of the Left Behind series has prompted a series of fics and drabbles, both in the LB universe and in variants thereof, though none of the writers have much respect for the setting.
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I am a stutterer, and I've noticed that stutterers are often good writers: Churchill, Borges, Maugham, Updike, Lewis Carroll, Margaret Drabble, Philip Larkin.
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Analyzes themes of sisterhood in the works of Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Margaret Drabble, and Emma Tennant.
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Many writers participate in the contest by submitting a drabble that consists of exactly one hundred words.
Synonyms
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A short piece of writing that focuses on one event or idea
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Drabble started as a playful name for a writing game in Britain where each story had to be exactly 100 words; one popular idea links the name to an older word meaning 'to splash', so the tiny story feels like a small splash of words. So a drabble is a very short, concentrated tale of about 100 words.