What's a drabble?
by Chalebh
A/N: This question occurred in a lot of reviews, so here is the answer. - I gathered the requirements, which I found on numerous web-sites.
Drabbles are short stories with exactly 100 words. Not a word more, not one less. And they can have one to fifteen words in their title. The Disclaimer and short author's notes don't count.
Also characteristic for drabbles is their ending. It's somehow surprising or humorous.
The words in a drabble are counted thus:
- Hyphenated words, like "Rock-and-Roll", count as one. (But this is in dispute.)
- Shortened words, like "it's" instead of "it is", count also as one.
- Numbers count as one word.
Is everything clear?
By the way, this explanation is also exactly 100 words long.
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