DrabbleWriMo 1: Gem

I have no intention of ever doing 'NaNoWriMo' (it's not my nation anyway :-p) since I've never been in the business of writing as much as possible as fast as possible in order to avoid 'the inner editor'; my inner editor comes into action the moment after I've set pen to paper, and before I get to the next sentence.

But the suggestion of doing 'DrabbleWriMo' -- a drabble-writing month, where you are set the task of writing exactly 100 words a day -- seemed something that might actually be useful, given that of late I feel I've been more productive in editing other people's work than in making progress on my own. Maybe some arbitrary prompts for something completely different would be a source of accomplishment, if nothing else. And it's a form of challenge that not only permits but requires incredibly detailed word-by-word editing in order to achieve the target!

So here's the first prompt out of thirty: "Gem". ( Read more... )