It's been a source of annoyance to me for ages, but I've sorta given up on people now. It still bugs me, though, because writing within 100 words exactly isn't all that easy when you should have an opening, middle and an end within those. 300 words means you've failed at saying what you wanted within a drabble and it's become a ficlet/vignette. It doesn't mean I notice if people hit 101 or 99 words - sometimes it's a matter of how your word processor counts dashes and words etc. but yeah, if they KNOW that a drabble is 100 words, they have NO excuse for doing 500 words.
Oh I don't suppose I shall convince the Humpty Dumpty people that they're as wrong as a very wrong thing, but sometimes I just have to blow off a bit of steam. And it's no use doing it on fanficrants, because it's been done to death there.
But I agree, that's the other thing that annoys me - writing drabbles is a discipline and quite difficult (and fun) and these folk are undermining that.
Apparently the fish I should beat them with are barbels, since "drabble" as a verb can mean to fish for those :-)
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But I agree, that's the other thing that annoys me - writing drabbles is a discipline and quite difficult (and fun) and these folk are undermining that.
Apparently the fish I should beat them with are barbels, since "drabble" as a verb can mean to fish for those :-)