Hi, I'm British, and you're reading a bunch of stuff you don't really care about! Yay! Go easy on me, I'm still finding my way around.
Another set of ten unconnected 100 (or as close as the word count gods will allow) word drabbles, this time focusing on Appledash. Another one written when I was taking my first, tentative steps into fandom.
Any advice welcomed, encouraged and adored, as usual!
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Appledash is OTP!
But seriously, this was really cute! Some of these could very easily become full fledged stories with a little more work. Have my thumb!
D'aww. A bit confusing, but poetic.
I like it!
Arby approves.
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But, but, dat TwiLuna...If I could actually characterise Twilight without flailing wildly, I would SO be writing that. I shall take your thumb, sir, and EAT IT!
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The confusingness is perhaps the biggest issue. I know I could get around it by using their names instead of making the audience work it out, but pronouns have one syllable, and then Applejack and Rainbow Dash's names are just minefields of too many syllables and capital letters and grawr, they just ruin that distant, dreamy flow I try to get. None of that made any sense, but yeah.
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Then victory was had by all! A monacle and a top hat for you, sir and/or madam!
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Top hats and monacles for you, too, good sir!
To everyone nice enough to have commented: glad I could provide you with perhaps a smidgeon of entertainment, and thanks for taking the time to tell me so!
554064 Don't forget the mustache!
If you want something nice but only have 5 minutes to read, I would suggest this.
"Hey Applejack, how would you like to be immortalized as my friend?!"
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But yeah, that's the joy of the format- when you do them right, they're tasty and bite-sized, like cocktail sausages. Consider yourself thanked for your kind words! 
A handlebar moustache that you could jump rope with, sir, and you are welcome to it!
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You read these in five minutes? I have great jealousy of your internet speeds. It takes me about three minutes to load every page.
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Yes, this is the very scene I stole the cover image from. A cookie to you for your sharp eyes.
Oh hey, these chapters are short enough that I can actually remember grammar mistakes, which means I can point them out!
Yes!
"Why," Rainbow Dash grinned, "Am I not surprised that you farm ponies fail at electricity?"
Those commas should be periods, which in turn means you need to capitalize the word 'am'. Rainbow grinning has nothing to do with her speech; it is a seperate action, so it is viewed as its own sentence. That's where the periods come in.
Anyway, yay fluff! These little passages look promising
Between Dash's acrobatics and Applejack's stampede management, they wasn't a single day without a crisis.
I'm sure that should probably be 'there', or another word aubstituted for it.
A few things here:
You say Rainbow Dash's full name in the narration quite a bit in this one, you could shorten it by using "Rainbow" or "Dash" by itself. Just a thought.
(I'm sorry, but I am on an Ipod as of now. I will read the rest of this, but I won't point out any mistakes or suggestions. It's just too difficult on this tiny contraption. I will, however, go back to this when I get on a computer much better suited for this.)
Anywho, how adorable =3
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Derp! Sorry about that. Honestly, I let a lot of similar things get through; truth be told, I was never actually taught the finer points of grammar, only how to make a sentence which looks approximately correct. Of course, that leads to a lot of sloppy habits, like using 'grinned' and such non-speech connected verbs as flavourful synonyms for 'said' and then letting the sentence run on. It largely generalises when you're using the right verbs- ("I must apologise for leaving you so abruptly," proceded the Stoker, "but I had to get the concert started.", and "Well," I said, "I hate to bother you, old man...", both from PG Wodehouse, are the examples that set the precedence for me personally), but of course my bad habits of misusing verbs scuppers me. I'll try and keep the advice in mind for the next thing I write. (As opposed to going back through six years and several hundred thousand words of work in hard-to-edit places and correcting every instance where it appears...
As for they wasn't, that's just sloppy editing on my part. I'll change it as soon as I've finished making excuses for myself.
I do use their full names quite a lot; I think that was just fandom noob effect in full swing, since I was nervous about whether I had to use full names or not when I first started. I'm still a little cautious about shortening Rainbow Dash's name though- to me, there's just something inherently irritating about seeing a capitalised Rainbow or Dash on its own, since they're not words I traditionally see as proper nouns. Force of habit, I guess.
Thanks a lot for pointing all this out, especially if you're taking the time to do it from an ipod, of all things. I really appreciate it, and I'll begin putting your suggestions to work after I've posted my backlogs of previous work and have a clean slate to start from. All my love are belong to you, sir and/or madam!
You have a wonderful poetic style. Great job!
"Sir"
And you're welcome, it's not a big deal though (so much love...
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I did see a few more little things that jumped out at me, mainly doing - again - with punctuation in dialog. But they're not really anything big. (Although the chapters are small, so any little mistake will stand out.)
The fluff was great, really like the false hints too; made me giggle. All in all, a nice and short fic, filled with adorableness and quite poetic at times.
Great story, curse this Ipod, be back later
Another great short by TheVulpineHero1! Yet again a nice short 3 minute read. This was really nice, hope to see more.
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no actually your wrong, TheVulpineHero1 was correct
"Why am I not surprised that you farm ponies fail at electricity?"
is a single complete thought, which is interrupted by the speaker tag of " Rainbow Dash grinned, " so it set off by commas
554673
Really?
Hmm, I've had teachers that beg to differ. Anyway, it is an action being done by the speaker, but it has nothing to do with the speech, it does not describe the speech in any way. It would be okay if it were a speaking verb - like 'said' or 'declared' or even 'laughed', but it is not describing the speech. It is a different action, so it should be set appart in another sentence.
Anyway, that's what I've learned. There are most likely other ways of doing things, so I may be wrong, but I've seen it practiced this way.
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Wow, I am just the most confused of panda bears. Gotta admit, I have only heard the words speech tags and speaker tags maybe three times in my entire life. Not to undermine either of your points- I'm sure there is a right way to do it, and it'd be nice to know if I'm doing it right or wrong- but I'd honestly make the argument that it doesn't actually matter too much. As a (hopefully) somewhat mature writer, excusing the fact that I'm a noob in this particular fandom, my personal stance is that sometimes it's necessary to make an informed and conscious decision on this kind of thing.
Put it this way: In order to render that sentence into correct grammar, all I need to do is change the word 'grinned' to 'asked', if I'm not mistaken. What are the pros and cons of that?
Pros: I'm practicing good grammar. Yay!
Cons: The fact that speech tags exist and are followed by a verb will allow most readers to infer that the action is taken while or applied to the act of speaking- in essence, that speech tags + grin equals speaking with a grin. It isn't a big leap. Even if the word grinned is technically the incorrect verb to use in that situation, it makes little difference to the overall coherence of the sentence; it's still easily understood, even if it does contain inaccuracies. So any benefit I get for trading off grinned for asked is actually quite small; it might make a difference in, say, legal documents or the like, but in the context of creative writing, where the holisitic effect rather than the grammatical accuracy is more valued, all I'm really gaining is the ability to hold my head high if ever accosted by a professor of literature.
However, by using the word grinned, I'm able to put a smidge more semantic meaning into the sentence, and create a certain amount of visual imagery with the inclusion of said grin. If I changed it to asked, I would lose that.
Moreover, it's a little narrow minded to think of grammar as strict 'rules' that you have to follow. In reality, the maxims of grammar are not rules, but tools to help you create a desired effect. By following them to the letter, you get absolute coherency, but by being more general with them, you can create a vast range of sensations by the simple configuration of words, rather than slowing down the story by having to use more words to create those sensations explicitly. Some of the best creative writing achieved much of its potency by throwing away, subverting, or playing with the laws of grammar- a shining example would be Ulysses, by James Joyce, widely regarded as perhaps the best novel ever produced in the English language.
Tl;dr? My stance is that grammar is lovely and wonderful, up to a point. If your work is still easily understood and you can create a desired effect with a subversion of the finer points, then it's sometimes worth doing just that. Of course, you have to know what you're doing before even considering making that choice, and even then, you have to take care to preserve the coherency of the piece (unless, of course, your desired effect is incoherency!) Whilst I'd love to know what the true 'correct' way of doing it is, so I can make my informed choice with a little more confidence, absolute adherency to grammar isn't as important to me in the long run.
/end rant
Still, thanks to both of you for bringing up the discussion, and as I said, if anyone has clarification on the issue of whether the example is actually correct grammar or not, I'm all ears.
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And you two! Don't think that, just because I just spent a bunch of time making arguments over the internet, I have forgotten you. Thank you very much for your kind comments, and I hope I can continue to provide a little bit of entertainment in the future.
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Not to just into the fray here on your grammar thing. . . I also use "grinned" the way you do, and would never notice it as a grammar issue in a fanfic or a published book, but I also know that technically "said while grinning" or "said with a grin" are correct for showing that someone was grinning as they said something. Of course usually one is not working with a limited number of words, outside of poetry, so I think the drabble format does give you poetic license, as it were.
I would never put a period after "Why" in that instance unless it was supposed to be, well, its own sentence. Otherwise it breaks up the flow of the dialogue, which is much more important to the average reader then grammar.
My two cents.
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Sorry about that headache. I promise, it wasn't intentional. You should really get to a computer before reading or replying to this next message. It';s somewhat long. Forgive me, but this stuff is sort've relevant to my interests.
Well, I can't really respond to whatever point you were just about to make when the message cuts off, but for the purposes of that sentence, I would be positively loathe to change those commas to periods, since it would change the sentence from "Why," Rainbow Dash said, "etc. etc. etc.", to "Why," Rainbow Dash said. "Etc etc etc." Whilst it may be correct form, it utterly ruins the effect I was trying to create- the impression of a pause, followed by a swift return to the topic. The period just adds too great a gap between the fragments of "Why" and the rest of the speech to flow in quite the same way, so for me, changing that second comma to a period is in some ways the worst possible way of remedying the situation, seeing as the flow of writing is a) one of its most important features and b) very hard to get back once you've lost it. Perhaps the next best way of fixing it would be to rearrange the sentence into something like, ["Why am I not surprised that farm ponies can't handle electricity?" Dash asked, grinning.], but then I'd lose the lovely pause after the why, which helps the dialog flow a little more like real speech, and I can't really use commas to recreate it since "Why, am I not surprised..." then seems disjointed, both to look at and to say. There's then the option of completely redoing the sentence into a less cumbersome form, but to do that I'd probably have to either go on a different track entirely, or would likely sacrifice that big Why as the first word and lose the impact that an opening question gives to the piece, which as the first impression is, in a lot of ways, the most important.
So, imho, changing grinned to asked is de facto the best way to render that sentence into a 100% grammatically correct form, at least that I can think of, since the loss of some semantics and one visual image is preferable to a difficult-to-remedy loss of writing flow. That was pretty much why I used it for the example. Of course, this is all very specific to this one sentence that we're talking about, but it's a fairly simple sentence, and if it creates so many problems whilst still at a low level of complexity, we can expect similar issues from other, more complex sentences that have other grammatical rules imposing on them. (I'm currently toying with the idea of changing grinned to asked, by the way; when I said it wasn't as important in the grand scheme of things, I didn't mean to say that it flat-out isn't important. I am giving it a lot of thought, and I'm weighing the decision of how much gain I'm getting versus the meaningfulness of the grammar. Seeing as the profit in terms of effect is very small, I'm actually leaning towards changing it.)
"They are, however, there to guide you, and to help you not look like an "amatuer". Many succesful authors do end up using some improper grammar, keyword: some. Although they are good enough at story telling to let it slip by. It doesn't really matter much in fanfiction though. However, people here most likely read other things, like actual books, books filled with correct grammar. They expect correct grammar here then as well. And in retrospect, it's not really that difficult to write in the boundries of accepted grammar." This is interesting, because I really don't know what you're trying to say. The implications are somewhat all over the place. However, I'll try and address it the best I can.
'many succesful authours do end up using some improper grammar, keyword: some.' Here, you're completely correct. However, I think I should make a differentiation here, between 'absolute' proper grammar, and a reasonable standard of proper grammar. The truth of the matter is that English grammar, if taken down to the very nuances, is actually very restrictive in terms of the sentence formations you can create. Usually, then, absolute proper grammar is only found in practice within legal documents- and if you've ever read the fine print of a contract, you'll know the effect that creates. Therefore, when I refer to proper grammar, I'm referring to a fair standard of it- such as you might find in published books. However, when you say 'some' improper grammar, I'd hasten to add that a lot of published authors almost throw it away altogether in their search for effect. An example would be Robert Swindell. I forget the name of the novel (it's been a while now since I read it), but essentially it was told through two narrators, one educated and the other illiterate. In order to convey the effect of illiteracy, he formatted the narrator's spelling and grammar constructs to be largely incorrect, to the point where that narrator probably didn't have any single correct sentence in the entire book. The effect he got from doing this was huge, and was in some ways the very cornerstone of both that character's development (as the quality increased during time to coincide with a higher standard of education and living), and of the dystopian world Swindell was creating. It wouldn't be going too far to say that that entire book is based on that lack of grammar. No one can argue that Swindell looked like an amatuer for doing that, despite throwing out grammar. Much the same can be said of James Joyce and Ulysses; here's an extract from it, word for word. http://www.claddaghireland.com/library/molly.htm
I'll stress this once more: these examples show that in terms of creative writing, it is sometimes better to eschew grammar in favour of creating effect.
My point, at the end of all this, is that YES, grammar is important, but it ISN'T, ever, a hard and fast feature of writing. It is convention, and nothing more. Published authors, books, and even entire styles of writing have been based on a total lack of grammar (free association styled writing for starters, which is essentially very much prose poetry.)
"It doesn't really matter much in fanfiction though. However, people here most likely read other things, like actual books, books filled with correct grammar. They expect correct grammar here then as well. And in retrospect, it's not really that difficult to write in the boundries of accepted grammar."
Well, we can immediately throw out you comment on actual books, seeing as we've just established that a number of well-known and highly respected authors and novels ignore grammar to a large extent. Being 'filled with proper grammar' and being an 'actual book' are very much independant of each other.
"However, people here most likely read other things, like actual books, books filled with correct grammar. They expect correct grammar here then as well." I honestly don't know what you're trying to imply here. That I don't read actual books? I can assure you, I do; one of my greatest interests is classical literature, and I scarcely ever leave my house without at least a copy of Jane Eyre to get me through queues. That people here only read books filled with correct grammar? Then they're missing out on some of the greatest treasure houses of story ever to have graced the language. That because they read actual books, they expect all other forms of fiction to be the same? But we've already established that it's fair game for a book to not contain correct grammar, so why would people who are plainly intelligent and sensitive enough to read and appreciate these books expect that all books and fiction have correct grammar, seeing as this doesn't necessarily reflect their experiences when actually reading books? I just don't know what all this is trying to say.
Overall, I can sort've see what you're saying- that, conventionally, proper grammar is desirable to achieve both from the point of view of a reader and that of a writer- but what I want to get across is that it is not necessarily a bad thing to eschew that convention. In the end, each individual reader will have their own tolerances to grammatical inaccuracies, and pushing those tolerences too far will result in the reader being irritated or disconcerted- but sometimes, as a writer, that is exactly what you want to do. You want to shake the audience out of their comfort zone, slap them in the face and tell them to start thinking, and proper use and abuse of grammar is one of the most startling ways to do it.
Which brings me all the way back to my original point: it's all about the pros and cons. Blindly jumping through hoops for the sake of grammar can be detrimental; ignoring grammar completely can be equally detrimental. A writer of sufficient skill will therefore pay as much attention to their grammar and how they use and/or do not use it as they do to their word choice, weighing each individual decision with a careful and steady hand.
One last thing: "And in retrospect, it's not really that difficult to write in the boundries of accepted grammar." Never said it was. Even an idiot like me who only learned grammar through osmosis can do pretty well with a couple pointers now and then. But the discussion was never really about whether it was difficult; the discussion was about whether it was strictly always desirable to write in the boundaries of accepted grammar.
If you got through all that without reaching for a drink, good on you, sir. I'll admit to having played the devil's advocate at times in the above argument, but only because I adore getting into discussions like this. Greatest respect to you.
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I am totally with you on the issue of periods after why, and also after the said in this case, as I described in some detail in my last post. Also, I'm glad to know I'm not the only who uses grinned that way!
I thought about the poetic license thing, but before I knew it I was in far too deep to reroute my argument to include it. Imho, you're quite right. All creative writing has poetic licence of a degree, but as drabbles are not actually that far from actual poetry (since you have to actively compose them, rather than throw words together, otherwise you'll never make that word limit), I would argue they have a bit more than most.
Also, don't feel like you're intruding on the argument. I love stuff like this.
what did i just read
oh i get it now
say WHAT?
555196
Okay, that Ipod will never again be used to try and type lengthy comments on the internet.
Never. Again.
First off, I agree with you, I do. They are mere rules crafted by people who are now long dead, and I'm sure over time people have adapted it and morphed it with their own writing. All artists can take liberties, and they have a right to, it's their work. But let's be honest, proper grammar is expected. Maybe not here, definitely not, I'm sure half the authors here don't use it. This place is, after all, just a site to post fanfiction, nothing serious. You are entitled to do what you want, and I say more power to you. Now it's different with, let's say, Equestria Daily. They equal themselves to a publishing company, they take the best and give it to a larger audience, and what is expected to be a requirement? Proper grammar. That goes for any publishing company, they cut you down for improper use of it. Again,here it's not really necessary, although the more popular authors practice it. I would say on this site, as long as the story is compelling and filled with dynamic characters and a nice conflict, grammar takes a back seat.
Now on the actual topic of correct grammar, here is my view. Said is a dialog tag, asked is a dialog tag, replied is a dialog tag, yelled is a tag, demanded is a tag, bellowed is a tag, laughed, cried, whispered and whimpered are dialog tags. Grinned is not. What dialog tags have in common is that they describe dialog, they have to do with the voice. When the words in the tags have to do with the dialog, help describe it, they are one sentence. Grinned is what can be referred to as an action tag. It is an action being done by the speaker. It does not have to do with speaking, it is a separate action, so it is in its own sentence. Now you can have both stuffed together, like what 555412 mentioned, a hybrid if you will. The commas can stay because you would have a dialog tag in there, the action tag along for the ride. That also leads to a point I agree with, bookplayer.
Putting a period after 'why' would just look and feel wrong. It would seem to jar the flow of reading, and that's not good. What that means is you will need to mix the sentence around. either make it a hybrid dialog tag or take it out, put it somewhere else. I would say you don't even need the 'Rainbow Dash grinned' where it is. You could most likely take it out and nothing would be lost, or stick the grinned segment at the end or the beginning, or even at another section of the same piece of dialog. It's not overly difficult to write within the boundaries of what people deem as proper grammar, once you know what you're doing. And yes, like most other rules, they can and are meant to be broken. You can stray from the path, but do so in moderation. And most likely only when you think the story would be better off abandoning them.
To close this, it's not a big issue, here at least. Even some people here point grammar out, but that's out of wanting the author to become better, whether or not he or she wants the advice. Besides, I'm pretty sure the rules are there for a reason. Authors wouldn't follow them if they didn't actually do some good, right?
Something to think about
Anyway, it feels good to type out a rather long comment again, I haven't been doing that enough recently. Also, I mean no offense whatsoever with this comment. I'm sorry if I come off as rude or brash, or some other term for mean, and I really only wanted to give out my opinion and inform. In the hopes of somehow providing assistance. I swear, I try to spread peace and love
Sorry for the word dump, I would put a tl;rd section, but I think it's good for people to read long comments. Being lazy gets you nowhere, that and I just can't bring myself to do it (Oh hey, irony.)
Okay, I've got to sleep now. Good talk everybody, good talk
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God damnit.
See, this is what happens when you're busy freaking out at an Ipod for screwing you over while commenting.
I will admit that was confusing, which is why I deleted that comment, as well as the whole cut off segment. I hope my new comment seems like less nonsense than the first did, but oh well. I'm prone to just spewing my jumbled thoughts out, sometimes it takes a few tries to get across just what I'm trying to say
You seem to be quite the accepting and understanding person, as well as very intelligent, if I may say so.
I like you
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Everything else aside, I know what you mean; although not all fiction follows the rules of grammar strictly, the vast majority of it makes a good old stab. (Talking of ED, I did actually get something published on there, once. However, I wrote it before I did even these experimental drabbles to familiarise myself with the fandom, meaning that although the writing itself may have been decent, I had a few canon incontinuities in there, and in the end I discontinued it, as I felt the idea wasn't strong enough to continue for more than a chapter. I still have half of a second chapter on my hard drive, but it isn't getting any more finished. Maybe I'll polish the whole thing up and post it here, see if I can make it fly better...)
^ The paragraph describing dialogue and action tags: YES. This is what I wanted to provide a concrete answer. I see how it all works now. Sinced you've explained it all, I probably will go and change grinned to asked, since I really think that's the best way of going about it without rejigging the wordcount; as I remember, I already cut a whole bunch from that drabble when I first wrote it, so I don't really have too many words I'd be happy to cut to make room for a hybrid tag.
Get some sleep, sir; you've certainly earned it. Due to your intelligent commenting, I can safely say that my fun has been double, and you may walk away knowing that you just have all of my respect due to your levels of awesome. Consider yourself stalked. I tip my hat to you. Or AJ's, anyway.
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...One last thing before we let sleeping dogs lie.
Wordcount of drabble collection as a whole: 1015 words
Wordcount of my earlier post (beginning with sorry about the headache): ~1600 words.
So, really, instead of sitting here arguing about grammar and whining about having to change one word in one sentence, it probably would have been quicker to just write an entire new drabble collection from scratch. I don't know why, but that's the best thing ever.
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I don't know what you just read. Depends if you read the story or the grammar discussion. If it's the story, then it makes more sense if you remember they're not connected at all. If it was the grammar discussion, then...well, I don't know either, but it was pretty awesome.
Also, saying 'date?' is a very good way to defuse a potentially tense situation. Just don't try it with teachers, university professors, or the police. It will not work.
Thank you kindly for your comments~
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That's because discussions are just too fun to participate in, especially when people are being nice and civilized about it. And you call your stuff drabble a lot. I wouldn't say that, it is good. It's different, that's for sure, but good
(And my computer says drabble is not a word, one of your UK terms, I assume?)
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Wait a minute, this wasn't in chronological order...?
What?
Why does this make so much more sense now...
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Drabble is actually a technical term, coined by the internet writing community (the science fiction writers, in particular); when used properly, it simply means 'a piece of fiction that is exactly 100 words long'. Some of mine might be off by a word or two because every single word count I put them through says a different thing, but essentially, they're drabbles.
However, a lot of people just use drabble to say 'a short piece of fiction' generally, without the 100 words stipulation. Which is fine too.
(For the interested: a piece of writing 50 words long [very hard to achieve in English, supposedly a bit easier in Finnish and languages with extereme polysynthesis] is called a dribble, and a piece of exactly 200 is called a drouble.) There's a wikipedia article on them, if you're interested. (You're right, though; the term was taken from a Monty Python sketch, but the concept was established in the UK). It's not offensive at all, just a way of saying it's really short.
And yeah, I totally agree. I love discussions, especially ones that don't devolve into 'well, your mom's a xxxx'. So very rare on the internet, but so very rewarding when they happen.
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Ah well. I'll tweak the description later.
Yup. That's what I meant by the 'unconnected' part in the description- they aren't part of the same chain of events, continuity, timeline, what have you. I made sure to put it up there in the first sentence, but maybe I was a little ambiguous about it...
PPFFF-hahahaha! Oh that was good. Really really good. Chess. Who woulda guessed.
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It was better than the first chess-based AppleDash drabble I tried. That was just weird. I think I was trying to make out that castling queenside was a metaphor for homosexuality or something like that. Further proof that not all of my ideas are good ones...
561156 Uh, yeah, I don't know about metaphors (not really the person to look way too deep into things, I confess
) but I think it was fine, and funny, the way it was. Moans. Heh, Rainbow must really hate losing so much
This story is so confusing it is giving me headaches!
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Still finding it confusing? Remember that they're not actually connected or part of a plotline or anything. Treat each one as its own piece, and you'll come out okay.
Aw, all of these are so cute! I don't find them confusing at all. The only sad thing is that after each one I want more of a story to expand on the moment, which I guess means you're doing something right by providing a little and letting the imagination conjure up the rest. Nice work
This? This catches the essential AppleDash.
The best adult side of any relationship!
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Glad you enjoyed them!
Well, one of the nice things about drabbles is that, maybe a month or something down the line, when I'm out of ideas and bored, I might look back at these and expand on them. They're like little ideas, trapped in amber, with a little bit of the work already done on them that I can come back to at any time. Or that someone else could use as material. Either way.
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Glad I captured that for you. I'm still a little weird on AppleDash m'self, even after this taster. I might do a little more sometime, though. Also, yes. The best adult relationships are based around board games.
Hi there! I added this to a Drabble group I started. I dunno the etiquette here, because I'm new, so sorry if that's not cool. I assume you can remove it if you want. Thanks for writing! :D
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On the subject, I've got another drabble collection uploaded, much like this one, featuring RainbowPie shipping. If you thought this collection was good enough to add to your listings, that one is pretty much the same quality. (See? I sound completely self-serving, even though I'm just trying to be helpful. 
) I like the idea of a drabble group a whole lot- I love both writing and reading them, and they're great practice in writing concisely. So, yeah, I support what you're doing, and thanks for adding my stuff. 
I don't really know the ettiquette on groups, either. I don't add my own stuff to groups, since it sort've feels like I'm cheating or being arrogant, but I'm fine with other people adding my stuff to groups.