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Year of the Drabble - Redux

Gonna do it again, yep yep.

All fandoms, all ships welcome. Prompts this year come in the flavors of word, image, movie, phrase, and genre. Nothing is in quotes this year, meaning that it's all meant to be inspiration. Nothing of the prompt *must* be in your drabble, but you are welcome to incorporate it if you like. And to simplify things just a tad, this year there are only 4 options for your drabble length. Choose from 100, 150, 200, or 350 words. Tag us when you post!

Are you ready? Here we go!

Jan 6 - word: quest Jan 13 - image

Jan 20 - movie: Waterworld Jan 27 - phrase: keep your eyes peeled Feb 3 - genre: crime Feb 10 - word: smoke Feb 17 - image:

Feb 24 - movie: Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were Rabbit Mar 3 - phrase: there's no i in team Mar 10 - genre: adventure Mar 17 - word: hiccup Mar 24 - image:

Mar 31 - movie: V for Vendetta Apr 7 - phrase: I smell a rat Apr 14 - genre: action Apr 21 - word: penalty Apr 28 - image:

May 5 - movie: Goncharov May 12 - phrase: down for the count May 19 - genre: comedy May 26 - word: frame Jun 2 - image:

Jun 9 - movie: Sneakers Jun 16 - phrase: down to earth Jun 23 - genre: scifi Jun 30 - word: pursuit Jul 7 - image:

Jul 14 - movie: Pretty Woman Jul 21 - phrase: roll with the punches Jul 28 - genre: drama Aug 4 - word: claim Aug 11 - image:

Aug 18 - movie: Mathilda Aug 25 - phrase: the plot thickens Sep 1 - genre: family Sep 8 - word: writer Sep 15 - image:

Sep 22 - movie: Looper Sep 29 - phrase: a little bird told me Oct 6 - genre: romance Oct 13 - word: linger Oct 20 - image:

Oct 27 - movie: Iron Giant Nov 3 - phrase: on the ropes Nov 10 -genre: western Nov 17 - word: poem Nov 24 - image:

Dec 1 - movie: Cast Away Dec 8 - phrase: all Greek to me Dec 15 - genre: history Dec 22 - word: vague Dec 29 - image:

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Is This Thing On?

Ack! How did it get to be 2025 already?

However it happened, it IS 2025. How did you do on your 'year of the drabble' challenge in 2024?

I ... did mostly okay. Had a couple spots during the year when things got hectic and I did not find the time or brain power to write a drabble. I managed to get caught back up riiiiiight up until the end of the year when things fell apart again.

Also, as you may have noticed, right around the beginning of summer, I got rather ... inconsistent ... about reblogging drabbles in a monthly roundup. Sorry about that. They weren't always tagged on tumblr or added to the ao3 collection, so sometimes it was difficult to track down which (if any) new drabbles were related to the challenge and prompts. Sometimes they were, though, and I still didn't manage to track them down to link up into a post.

I will be posting another year of prompts, but I won't be promising the monthly roundups - which I hate because while I created this challenge in part to encourage myself to develop daily/weekly writing habits, it was also to find community where we could work in parallel and hold each other accountable for a small weekly goal. The thing is, I just don't have time to do both the writing and the admin required to find the other drabbles and post them.

If someone out there would like to assist, I'd be glad of the help.

If not, well, there's still a list of prompts for us to play with, and a goal to reach for. A drabble a week. Let's go. Time to bring out the 2025 prompt list. Keep your eyes peeled.

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Week 53!

Here we are, at the LAST prompt of 2024. It's a word prompt, and must appear in your drabble. Let's see what we all can make of "jet lag."

One more time - get drabbling!

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WEEK 52!!!

Although it's NOT the last prompt of 2024, holy heck you guys, it's prompt number 52! Aaaahhhhhhhhh!

Ahem. So, then. This week's prompt is a trope - desert island.

Let's gooooooo!

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Week 51

One last song prompt for the year - Chuck Berry's 'School Days'.

Happy Drabbling!

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Week 50

This week we have a phrase to play with - 'Gone but not forgotten.'

Get your drabble on!

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Week 49

This week we've got an image prompt -

I don't know about you, but this image makes me smile. Wonder what it'll inspire in our drabbles ...

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December!!!

We've reached December and are approaching the end of the 'Year of the Drabble' ... unless it's something folks would like to see continue. We've got a few more weeks in the year to finish things out (and a bonus extra 53rd drabble because the year started on a Monday ...) but drop a note in the replies on this post if you'd like to see more prompts next year, so we have time to build it and get it posted in time to kick off 2025.

Oh, and those last few prompts for 2024? Here they are:

Dec 2 - Image:

Dec 9 - Phrase: Gone but not forgotten Dec 16 - Song: School Days by Chuck Berry Dec 23 - Trope: Desert island Dec 30 - Word: “jet lag”

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Week 48

For the last week of November we have another word prompt: thread. Remember that this word must appear somewhere in your drabble.

Go, go, go!

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Week 47

How about a little 'outsider perspective' for this week's 'trope' prompt?

Choose your length (100, 150, 200, up to 300, 300 or 400 words) and get drabbling!

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Week 46

This week we have a song prompt - Marvin Gaye's 'Let's Get It On.' Which is now stuck in my head. I'm not complaining :)

Happy drabbling!

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Week 45

Happy Monday! This week we have a phrase prompt - 'Under your nose.'

Get drabbling! And don't forget to tag us so we can include your drabble in the end-of-the-month round-up!

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The 'Year of the Drabble' has reached its Penultimate Month!

Yep, somehow or other November has sneaked up on us. Our prompts for the next four weeks are:

Nov 4 - Phrase: Under your nose Nov 11 - Song: Let’s Get It On by Marvin Gaye Nov 18 - Trope: Outsider Perspective Nov 25 - Word: “thread”

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Week 44

This week we're going out of this world with a gorgeous black-and-white photo of Saturn's Rings -

Happy drabbling!

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Week 43

Another word prompt this week - "leaves." Pick your word count (100, 150, 200, up to 300, 300, or 400) and get writing!

Happy drabbling!

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Week 42

Here we go, the answer to life, the universe, and everything. Apparently it's this trope prompt: Forced proximity.

Which, I suspect, raises more questions than it answers. I guess we'll find out. Get drabbling!

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Apropos of mostly nothing, the universe loves a good coincidence. This was on my FB feed today ...

Week 41

It's time for another song prompt. This time we're looking for inspiration in Margaritaville with Jimmy Buffett ...

Write the thing!