I think that gives it extra punch and it had plenty of punch to begin with.

So, I was trying to write this for the LJ community Multi Improv, the words are "pure, classic, fold, underground" for 100 word drabbles you pick one word. I picked pure and then wrote pure right out of the drabble. Which, I suppose, means I failed, but I couldn't get it to stay in there without it looking forced. But I like what I wrote...

Anya enjoys doing laundry in this modern world where machines do all the work. She just separates the clothes by types and sets the washer. What she hates are detergents that smell like “mountain rain” or “sunshine fresh”, they remind her of the past, when washing clothes was hard work. She asked Xander about the outdoor scents, he said people were nostalgic for the past. She said they were insane. She’d rather have detergent that smells like tangerines, or new car; she seems to be the only one. Instead she buys Ivory, which leaves her clothes smelling clean, like soap.

(I am working on a drabble that uses the word "pure")

askye, I like it. I like the constraints a drabble puts on you. It's like haiku, but longer.

I have seven million versions of this on notebook paper, with little numbers at the top, I had to let go of a few things I liked but I liked it. I tried to put a time constraint on myself as well.

Now, the hard one is 100 words using "pure" for a drabble with Fraser.

Oh, Fraser is all kinds of pure. And the fun is trying to spoil him.

Well, yeah, but the trick is getting the word in there without it feeling forced, which is why I had to drop it from the Anya drabble, because it read like I was trying to cram the word in there to meet the challenge.

Hang on...

Instead she buys Ivory, which leaves her clothes smelling clean, like soap.

She buys Ivory, which leaves her clothes smelling like soap, 99&44/100 pure.

Which is still 12 words, if you count 99&44/100 as one word. Which may be cheating.

Which is still 12 words, if you count 99&44/100 as one word. Which may be cheating.

99.44% would work.

That's where I ran into the problems, trying to cut out the ten or so words I needed to add in that Ivory was pure. So I cut and reworked it and managed to get it down to something like: "Instead she buys Ivory--advertising itself 99.44% pure!--which leaves her clothes smelling clean, like soap." (which I thought sounded Anya-ish) but then I still needed to cut out four words somewhere else and I didn't think I edit out anything else out.

But then I have to cut out