The difficulty I’ve had writing in recent weeks is prompting me to take a new approach: focus on drabbles.

What are drabbles, you ask? I discovered in a post from four years ago, when I wrote my drabble, that its roots are not the author Margaret Drabble, but rather Monty Python:

…the 100-word format was established by the Birmingham University SF Society, taking a term from Monty Python’s 1971 Big Red Book.  In the book, “Drabble” was described as a word game where the first participant to write a novel was the winner. In order to make the game possible in the real world, it was agreed that 100 words would suffice. The purpose of the drabble is brevity, testing the author’s ability to express interesting and meaningful ideas in a confined space.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drabble

My plan is to jump start my writing by combining the drabble format with this, a writing improv ‘game’ that Clarice gave me at least a year ago. The sticks will provide inspiration, the format will be drabble. I will collect 30 of them into an eBook and publish it. And I start tomorrow.