Oh, are you a write-long person? I'm going to be a write-long person in my next life. It's going to be great. Next time around, college will not be a process of looking at a two-page paper thinking "er, yeah, that's my point. I don't have eight more pages to say about that."

Drabbling is seriously the only situation in which I've ever wanted more room.

My drabble first drafts are all 75 words, I shit you not.

I hit 80 odd, say "Is this enough? No?" and then add 30 words and work down from there, pretty consistently.

I'm so terribly short form.

I'm ordinarily wordy-girl. But with these, I'm writing very short and terse. I hit word count and it's 88, 94 words, so I go back and change a sentence to read more smoothly. I sanded things a bit on the last one, and threw out three words. It gave me room for a whole other sentence.

Loving this. Loving Steph for suggesting it.

Oh, are you a write-long person?

Have you seen some of my posts in the "Firefly" thread? t /sheepish

er, yeah, that's my point. I don't have eight more pages to say about that.

Mine is more like "OK, that's all the blah-blah I could possibly think about. On completely unrelated topics, too. Now find some sort of point in there, make sure it's relevant, and write it".

No matter what my limit is, my first draft is short. My five-page papers always started at 3. For work now, I'll often have, say 300 words to write, and I almost always end up with 250.

Is anyone capable of not writing a brilliant... Me. Mine blew.

Mine blew.

If you wrote one that blew, you apparently didn't post it.

I saw no blowing.

I enjoyed that. One of my favorite memories is of driving from Northeastern Oregon into Northwestern Idaho and down this narrow little road into a deep red rock canyon. I'd never tried to write it down before.

I'm going to have to try that again.

I posted my drabble over on lj. Shall I post it here too?