Firefly comment fic
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Regan turned the CaptureCard face-up and triggered it. A young man with dark hair and blue eyes smiled up out of it.
"He's very pretty," Anya said. "Is he a chorus boy?"
"He's a surgeon," Regan said coldly.
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"Now this face I recognize," Anya said, running her fingers lightly over a framed pen and ink drawing of River. "Your lovely daughter." She turned her attention back towards Regan. "She will absolutely love the Academy. I'll oversee her education personally."
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Date: 2006-07-06 06:32 pm (UTC)Step right up. You too can be Samuel Johnson
Date: 2006-07-06 06:40 pm (UTC)Re: Step right up. You too can be Samuel Johnson
Date: 2006-07-06 06:53 pm (UTC)Look out, Bosworth! :)
Date: 2006-07-07 03:16 am (UTC)Thanks.
Re: Look out, Bosworth! :)
Date: 2006-07-07 04:56 pm (UTC)Re: Step right up. You too can be Samuel Johnson
Date: 2006-07-06 07:02 pm (UTC)Re: Step right up. You too can be Samuel Johnson
Date: 2006-07-06 07:16 pm (UTC)Re: Step right up. You too can be Samuel Johnson
Date: 2006-07-07 03:18 am (UTC)*loves*
Re: Step right up. You too can be Samuel Johnson
Date: 2006-07-07 03:28 am (UTC)Re: Step right up. You too can be Samuel Johnson
Date: 2006-07-08 02:25 am (UTC)Re: Step right up. You too can be Samuel Johnson
Date: 2006-07-07 03:17 am (UTC)Ficlet implies short to me too, but in my mind it always means longer than a drabble, the max of which is 500 words, right?
Re: Step right up. You too can be Samuel Johnson
Date: 2006-07-07 10:03 am (UTC)I have seen communities define "drabble" as anything under 500 words and it makes me want to scream, because the prescriptive definition of "drabble" is 100 words exactly, no more, no less.
Re: Step right up. You too can be Samuel Johnson
Date: 2006-07-07 01:07 pm (UTC)Set by the Birmingham University SF Society as thus: a self-contained vignette of exactly 100 words, no more, no less, with up to 15 more words are allowed for the title. Hyphenated words are in dispute. The term originates from a Monty Python skit: "Drabble. A word game for 2 to 4 players. The four players sit from left to right and the first person to write a novel wins." Drabbles started in British SF fandom in the late '80s. A half-drabble is fifty words long; a double drabble is 200 words long.
From the Fanfic Glossary (http://www.subreality.com/glossary/terms.htm#D).
This makes my nomenclature dilemma even more pressing (ha! as if any of this is pressing *g*), since not only is there no accepted word for under 100 words, there's not one for between 101 and 500.
The Glossary has no entry for ficlet.
Re: Step right up. You too can be Samuel Johnson
Date: 2006-07-07 01:30 pm (UTC)*Googles* (My personal definition of "flashfic" is like
Personally I tend to just avoid the issue and say "I wrote a #-word fic" (having time constraints has caused me to become a big fan of knowing word counts in advance of starting to read a story).
Re: Step right up. You too can be Samuel Johnson
Date: 2006-07-07 01:44 pm (UTC)I don't know why, but I hardly ever check to see how long something I've written is in terms of words. But that's easily done.
Re: Step right up. You too can be Samuel Johnson
Date: 2006-07-07 01:51 pm (UTC)Re: Step right up. You too can be Samuel Johnson
Date: 2006-07-08 02:33 am (UTC)When I was still writing B7, sallymn referred to both Blake and Avon as "My Darlings" so I referred to Avon as "My Client" and was delighted to hear altariel1 refer to "Your Bloody Client" during a discussion.
Re: Step right up. You too can be Samuel Johnson
Date: 2006-07-08 03:20 am (UTC)In Byatt, are you referring to A. S., and if so, why?
Re: Step right up. You too can be Samuel Johnson
Date: 2006-07-08 01:23 pm (UTC)Re: Step right up. You too can be Samuel Johnson
Date: 2006-07-08 05:31 pm (UTC)